My running season for 2011 ended in October with the Hallow’s Eve Trail race. It was my second full year of running, and I saw a lot of improvement. Race reports for all my events are available on the post of my 2011 Race schedule. My highlights were: Beating my goal of a 3:30 marathon […]
Interactive Map of Bicycle Collisions Zones in Vancouver
I came across this interactive map of bicycle collisions today which is pretty interesting. Last week ” ICBC released their statistics on reported bike/car crashes from 2006 to 2010. Shortly after releasing those statistics, a Vancouver programmer, Eric Promislow, created an online interactive map showing those collisions.” This is via an article from Kitsilano.ca , […]
Top 5 Tips for Cycling in the Winter
I realize someone from Calgary or Winnipeg will scoff at this post about ‘winter’ riding in Vancouver. While temperatures will hover around the freezing point, we rarely need to tackle snow or brave truly cold temperatures on our daily bike commute. That said, as I rode home from work last week I passed by an […]
Celebrate 100 years of BC Parks with NSMBA
NSMBA passed this on to me: Celebrate 100 years of BC Parks with NSMBA on August 27th 2011 marks the 100th birthday of BC Parks. To celebrate this centennial landmark, the North Shore Mountain Bike Association in association with Mountain Equipment Co-op and BC Parks invite you to celebrate mountain bike culture in BC. Join […]
The New Whistler Mountain Bike Trails Database
The Whistler website recently launched a cool new feature – a mountain bike trail database. After playing around with it for a while, I gotta say its pretty slick. You can navigate the Google Map as per normal to zoom in and find trails in specific regions, or you can search for specific trails using […]
Only in Whistler
This gem comes via my Twitter feed (sorry, I bookmarked the link and forgot who tweeted it) The watermark is for Blake Jorgenson Photography. There is some amazing stuff there, check it out. Click to view the full sized image:
