Fun

What a day! It started with the discovery that a major roof avalanche had cut off the horses from the arena (and the pony from getting out of the barn after the night). It took me a while to shovel out a small passage (Graham, you would have loved it!) so that the horses can […]

The day I left for Winthrop early in the morning, the roads were bad. Of course it had to snow the day/night before and I wasn’t happy when I left with the car loaded with skis, the dog, some food and lots of gear. But we made it okay and actually enjoyed the scenic drive!

This was definitely a first: XC ski and swim in the lake all on the same day! Since abandoning our open water swims (last solid swim was Nov 16) we have played with the idea of swimming one more time – in December. Today, we made it into the rather cold lake (4 degrees or

An interesting piece of information from the Westworld magazine “In the Chilcotin [rural/remote area located in the central interior of British Columbia, ed.], the federal government’s review of the Taseko Mine’s proposed destruction of Teztan Biny/Fish Lake – which is filled with rainbow trout – is ongoing. This, even though studies from both First Nations

Winter has hit early this year, with lots of snow around already. We have made it through the first deep freeze with temperatures down to -19 degrees. It has warmed up since, however, and was very enjoyable today for our first skate ski at Nordic! The conditions are great, and everybody is happy to be

Sorry it has taken a bit longer but the pictures from our hike to Gwillim Lakes (see blog post) are now online! Check them out in the Gallery …

Yes, you are correct, we are still swimming in the lake! Looks like last year’s record (mid November) can be broken since I have company this year: Mark and John have been swimming with me, even pushing longer distances and quite happily agreeing to the next swim each time we’re out. Anybody who has never

Yesterday (Halloween!) I raced my first trail race! Even though I train exclusively on trails for the running portion of my triathlons, I have never actually competed in a XC race. So yesterday I participated in the Kal Park Race in Vernon, BC (the last race of the Interior Running Association series). We started in

Since returning from the World Championships in Kona, life has been very busy. Catching up on the grading of my students’ works has taken most of my time but of course I can’t complain … after all I got to go to Kona and fulfill my teaching responsibilities from that more than heavenly spot. The

Pre-XTERRA: This weekend will see the first ever XTERRA (off road triathlon) in Kelowna, organized by Rob Swan. I decided to give it a try … even though I like my road bike, skinny tires on clean roads, no ruts or logs, just dry roads with lots of traction 🙂 It will be a great