Even though I crashed and lost my awesome lead-out, this remains my favorite racing memory of 2007 - a worldwide simulaneous race in a dozen different cities, with the local winner getting a free round-trip ticket to the Worlds in Dublin (which was total crap by all accounts, but that's another story).
This was filmed in-race by Smitty and posted a short time afterwards. You can barely tell its me, because I'm so faaar ahead... from High Park til around Bay street. Those are the fastest couriers in all Hogtown chasing after me. He cut the crash out of his helmet-cam footage for some reason. Enjoy a tiny piece of history. In part two, I am featured at the finish line looking extremely skinny and showing off my bloody knee.
Happy new year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6cXdSmp_I
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN, SCOTLAND.
I walked under this bridge in 2007, and took this photo.Monday, December 17, 2007
Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire
What a snow storm!
We had 25 cm drop on the city yesterday. Marlena and I went for a long hike into HIgh Park where branches hung low with snowy boughs and redbirds dallied in sorties hither and yon above our heads in a hollow by Grenadier Pond. I made a point of stopping there as I had noticed the fine cardinals standing out against the snow last winter. Its a magical little spot removed from the wind, where the birds flutter and skirl above you onto the snowy sumach boughs.
My feet ended up good and wet from t he deep cracks in my Columbia boots - after seven years they've had it. Not that it will make me stop wearing them - bit of shoe goo and they'll be right enough.
Still, it was epic stuff for this town. I rode to work today in the sunny aftermath of it all - and the snowplows working all night. It was slushy but my deep experience in bad weather on my fixed wheel machine had me passing cars on the right without trouble. Ah, winter.
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