Date:  Sept 16-18/2011
Location:  Blue Mountain Resort,  Collingwood, On
Website:  centurioncycling.com/canada
Race Distances: Hill Climb, 25 mile, 50 mile, 100 mile, Vertical Hill Challenge, Kids Ride.
This is a full weekend event with something for everyone.  We had gone up on the Friday night & stayed at a friend’s townhouse withing walking distance of the start line.  On Saturday, […]

Made the trek up to Ganaraska for the Dirty Enduro for the 3rd year. And doing the 30k for year 2. Plus unless I’m getting paid I don’t wake up for 9am starts any more.
On the way up had the mental argument of ride cliplless or flats this year. Or basiically treat […]

On Sunday August 7th was the Big dirty Pickering Ride organized by Nick. Another free event put on by buddies for buddies. All bikes and all pedals where accepted. After gathering at Nick’s in Pickering and the usual taking forever to get organized it was off for the ride. Especially when one […]

After 3 weeks of every excuse for not showing up to the last 3 Endo races. Got the Mistress and I to the site for this weeks O2 debt location. The new place being Macintosh Mills which is an interesting place. Report on that later in the season.
Got a little lost finding the place. So […]

As part of the 2011 Team NFI’s goals was to do as many free events as possible. The first being the Buttertart Tour about a month ago.
After getting the info from Endo Racing in Brockville. Info meaning a invite to join in. Amazing how you get stuff like that when it’s time. So loaded up […]

Headed out to Ganaraska Forest for the 15th on September 18th. This year after my knees deciding to go on strike during the 60k only did the 30k.
Going into this my goals where really to simply ride it, I lost 2 weeks of training as my lower back did it’s annual go on strike. So […]

On October 2nd was the social event of the fall Cyclocross season, the Dundas Monstercross in Hamilton. And it fit in with the 2010 year goals of riding new places as well as doing low key fun events.  The continued year of avoiding racer type hype.
So after some thought the decision was made. Departed Toronto […]

Date: September 19, 2010
Location: Collingwood, Ontario
Distance: 178kms
I was looking for a race that I would be able to do this year since I wasn’t able to run this summer I thought this would be a good way to get at least one race in this year. I had been doing a fair amount of […]

Date: November 28, 2010
Location: Riverdale Park, Toronto, Ontario
This was my first off-road bike race in over 10 years. Having originally started racing mountain bikes and later moving over to road (triathlons mainly) I forgot how much off-road racing hurts and how fun it is.
Major knee surgery in February stopped […]

Initially I wasn’t going to write a report for this event since technically it isn’t a “race”.  However, I thought a review might be useful since it can be a training ride or a fun day out with the family.  My purpose was for the former.  I did the 75 km ride in preparation for […]

After a few years of sporting the 8-hour relay style, a group of friends decided it was time to bond together over a good old-fashioned 24 hour mountain bike relay. 
 
Kelso was the destination for the Summer Solstice 24 Hour race.
 
We pulled in the night before to the camp ground with our new, used camping […]

 
Location: Port Colborne/Port Dalhousie, ON
Website: www.laketolake.ca
Date: June 21, 2009 
 
It seems the summer months are pretty void of some solid adventure races you can do solo.  This has left me searching for motivation to keep training hard and stay focused.  So now I find myself “racing for training” rather than “training for racing”.  My bike legs haven’t […]

This was to be my first attempt (and most likely last) at competing in a solo 24 hr mtb race. Training had been going ok, and I knew that if I paced myself properly I would have a good race. I wasn’t expecting any fast performance, but I just wanted to ride the majority of […]

This was my first time attempting a proper road race, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.  The race weekend included a time trial on saturday morning, a criterium ( not available to the entry senior 4 (S4) mens or other entry categories), and a road stage on sunday morning.
Time Trial
I showed up […]

Bacel Ride for Heart Sunday June 7This was an incredible event.  If you haven’t heard of it before, this ride completely closes down the Gardiner expressway and the Don Valley Parkway to allow more then 13000 riders to ride the route up and down.  I was interested in this even for two reasons.  One was […]

This can be seen as the manual of how not to do a race. I hope some other people can learn as much from reading this as I did from experiencing it!
I arrived on Saturday morning in Mansfield Outdoor Centre with a fair bit of enthusiasm for the race that day; the Epic 8 […]

Having travelled back and forth to Moscow and the surrounding area for the past six years I finally managed to get moved here on a permenent basis. That being done it was time to get ready for the summer season, particualary a week of hard cycling in the Italian Dolomite mountains in July. With cycling in […]

 Sunday April 5th was the day of the 18th running of the Uxbridge Icebreaker in the Durham Forest.  With 2 race options, option A being 25km and Option B being 50km of fun. I chose the hardman option of 50km. After the requisite pre race fueling of Tim’s Hot Chocolate and Bacon Breakie sandwich on the drive up. […]

Soldier On, is a term used in the Canadian Army. The dictionary describes it as to continue one’s efforts despite despite difficulties or pressure.  And that is the title of the the program created to aid soldiers who have been injured to soldier on.  So on February 27th and 28th in the RMC gym the first […]

 On a chilly blustery Sunday morning at Lake Ontario Park was the one race that brought the Eastern and Southern Ontario series together. This is the race where those who don’t normaly race together get to of course race together. The usuall looped type course that is the staple of Cyclocross though with some changes due […]