After just finishing a CrossFit endurance cert at FirePower Training this past weekend I had the privilege of meeting ex-NHLer Scott Thornton who has big new plans to open up a CrossFit facility in the outdoor mecca that is Collingwood. I think these are sound plans with Collingwood really changing with the huge investment from [...]

So you have a Princeton Tec EOS headlamp. They are nice, functional, and bright. You want to ride your bike with it at night? Well people do it, i’ve done it, it is not optimal, but it can be done. The nice flashing feature on the EOS does give you a high visibility in an [...]

While adventure racing at night – Light = Speed. In less than a month I will be racing overnight in a 24 adventure race in Ontario. What do you do when you need lighting for 10 hours? It gets dark early in the forest and by 8:30 you are probably going to need some lighting. [...]

With this whole web blog thing I am really trying to get some of the thoughts out of my head and onto the web. With the explosion of the world wide web and social networking I’m increasingly finding myself in front of this computer with less and less accomplished.  On a more productive note I [...]

Well you shouldn’t live life with regret. I could be wearing a TAG watch or something expensive and without a real purpose. These new Chris King hubs are super cool and when you take them apart, their exquisite craftsmanship is often compared to that of a watch. The major difference between me spending money on [...]

As I sit in the warm confines of my cushy house, I found this great new movie that is coming out of Leadville Colorado. The leadville 100 is really known as a 100 mile endurance RUN, but the bike race is much more doable and with Lance Armstrong doing the race this past year and [...]

I was about 20 kilometers into a 25 km orienteering race called “Raid the Hammer” with my team of 3. This was my second year competing in the race and a I had just come back from an 86 km run of the grueling La Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney, (read more) . The race [...]

I wouldn’t build one of these if I were you. This is dangerous stuff. Riding your bike at high speed while attached to other bikes at high speed is a really dumb idea. We don’t condone such behaviour and we don’t recommend you do it. This is a short unedited documentary on how people can [...]