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My pictures with slight commentary. Mostly taken when riding with Josh (hence not much after Silverthorne): Robin shows me around his local singletrack in a Banff shakedown ride. [singlepic id=104 w=320 h=240 float=] Josh pushing through snow on the Whitefish reroute. I think it was over 10 miles of snow, but at least it was . . . → Read More: My Tour Divide in Pictures It’s all over and I came in 6th place. I’m currently staying at Jamie’s house (Jamie seems to know everyone in Silver City) along with Kurt Refsnider. It’s a very nice place to be hanging out post-event. There are all kinds of thoughts, pictures and words to get out there. First, something that I spent . . . → Read More: Tour Divide Decompression Begins So everyone has started the tour divide and with diversions to the normal route due to snow and floods they are all doing well. Aidan is storming along and doing really well. Whilst I am writing this, it appears that Aidan has bivvied for the evening with a guy called Robert Gianni just alongside the . . . → Read More: Good bye Canada roll on Wyoming Possibly not the best formed words ever, written on a phone in a coffee shop: On Saturday, I went for what could be considered an unwise training ride. 5.5 hours of Surrey Hills singletrack in warm temperatures with all my Tour Divide gear on the bike. Probably 50 odd miles, but my GPS fell off . . . → Read More: Unwise Training The Tour Divide is approaching (starts on June 10) and it’s slipping into just about every thought these days. Getting the kit right. Organising logistics for before and after the race. Figuring out the navigation. Training. Fretting. It’s pretty consuming, but that’s half of the fun. The Divide this year is quite a different prospect . . . → Read More: Getting the right attitude For the longest time, I believed that running was the tool of the devil. It was boring and painful and why would anyone do it when you could instead be mountain biking. After all, mountain biking is the best of all sports. In 2006, running did me a lot of physical harm but ended up . . . → Read More: How running has helped my biking Until now, I have never ridden a Pegasus because I was scared that, once I had, there was no going back. So I didn’t really know the potential of the frame that I picked up more than 10 days ago. [singlepic id=71 w=320 h=240 float=] Which was a good thing. Mail-order companies’ failures meant that . . . → Read More: Pegasus is here! I have removed this post as a version of it will probably be appearing in The Ride Journal later this year. More thoughts on the Iditarod to come, though, including getting lost on the sea ice and competing with Jay on the run-in! Well Aidan made it! He was head to head with Jay and gave us a very exciting finish as it was close between them to the end. Aidan came in 2nd in an amazing time of 17 days 9 hours and 15 minutes. He has become the first ever single speeder to successfully make it . . . → Read More: The first ever single speeder to Nome So I left it last time that I had hoped to hear from Aidan the next day at Kaltag. I in fact got a call from him that night, he was in good spirits and making brilliant progress. I got another phone call last night as he had reached Elim and was pushing onto Golovin . . . → Read More: It is getting exciting! |
