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Like a horse heading for the barn My alarm went off at 4:15 am on race day morning.  I quickly shut it off so as to not disturb the other people in my campsite who like myself were feeling pretty shell shocked after enduring an all night party that lasted until 3:30 am.  I was sitting in my tent and wondering if it...

Go to the 45″ mark to get an idea of what the weather conditions were like on climb to Yellow Lake. Nasty!

Overall I was a minute faster than last year.  Not much of a margin for a PR but I am going to take it!   As you can see from the stats below, all that training for the Canadian Death Race really helped by dropping my Ironman run time by 35 minutes.  However both my swimming and bike times were slower than...

Not Everybody Made It! The stats: Leg 1 Leg 2 Leg 3 Leg4 Leg5 Overall Actual 2:07:36 5:18:33 3:00:06 7:04:14 3:56 21:26:17 Goal 2:00 5:00 2:15 7:00 3:00 19:15 Cutoff 2:30 6:00 2:45 8:30 4:15 24:00:00 I went to the pre-race meeting which was held from 8:30 to 9:30 pm the night before the race.  I was going to skip...

Approaching Hell Must be the place

Video – Start of the 2010 Canadian Death Race

I cross the starting line at about the 3 minute mark in this video.  Thats me in the grey vest and white cap.  No really!  I actually did do this race.  Here is the proof. Ps.  The choice of “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” by The Culture Club for the start of the Death Race is ironic, no?

Several people have asked me what is like to run through the forest at night. This video by Øyvind Hammer gives you a sense of what it is like to come in out of the dark at the end of Leg 4 of the Canadian Death Race. I actually enjoy night running with my headlamp.  It can be tricky though because I find that my depth perception is not as accurate when I wear a headlamp. Perhaps that is because the pupils in my eyes are overly dilated for the darkness and do not properly adjust to the...

48 hours of rain and a movie about atrocities of Dachau have left me in a reflective mood.  So I am just going to close my eyes, lie back on the couch and listen to MEL.  Give it a try.  You might like it. Read Your Mind by MEL

What is it about Thai food? You take the very simplest basic ingredients and when combined they become the most amazing taste sensation. Perhaps it’s the craftsmanship in the kitchen that brings it all together? Not sure. Tonight I had a green curry chicken that was cooked inside a coconut. The flavour and texture was amazing and I devoured very molecule.

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Never win first place, I don’t support the team I can’t take direction, and my socks are never clean Teachers dated me, my parents hated me I was always in a fight cuz I can’t do nothin’ right Don’t Let Me Get Me by Pink The passing of summer is recognized and marked in various ways depending...

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