Next Tuesday, January 31 is a movie premiere in Calgary for “Go Death Racer” which is a short documentary on the 2010 Canadian Death Race (ultra race) in Grande Cache.  Sponsored by the Tech Shop and The North Face – free water bottle and $25 off the Tech Shop with entry, draw prize is a free entry into the 2012 Death Race for some unlucky person.  Couple of other short films and a short talk by Tracy Garneau, a North Face sponsored ultra athlete.

Details below:

Where: Plaza Theater (in Kensington)
When: Tues Jan 31 at 7:00PM (doors at 6:30PM)
Tickets: $10 – cash only at the door (since the Plaza is ghetto that way) – advanced tickets available at the Tech Shop.

Come on out and feel free to bring other interested people as well to the show.  Should be fairly well attended by the Calgary running community.

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We got notice today that the Good Life is getting the boot (from Eau Claire) on Feb 17 as seen below

I went to speak with Devon at mall admin and he essentially said that there’s no room for negotiation on even a date because they already have a contract with another group for mid Feb. I re-explained the Good Life’s nature and that we have a large amount of people of various backgrounds relying on us, programs, in addition to great media coverage and so on but, though apologetic, emphasised that there’s negotiation to be had.

So, where from here? 

-Find a new space (decide what we really want/need as this could be a good opportunity to get it)
-Make a timeline as to closing date, etc
-Find storage if needed in the likely scenario we don’t find a new awesome venue by the 17th
-Sell/get rid of as much stuff as possible

If you’d like to join the discussion, it’s happening over email so please message me directly and I’ll add you.

Thank you,

Jonny Bear

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BMC Racing Team's Cadel Evans of Australia, wearing the leader's yellow jersey, holds his bicycle in front the Arc de Triomphe as he celebrates on the Champs Elysees after winning the 98th Tour de France cycling race in Paris July 24, 2011. Evans became the first Australian to win the Tour de France after finishing with the peloton in the last stage won by Mark Cavendish of Britain on Sunday. Andy Schleck was second overall with his brother Frank taking third place. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Erik Morales of Mexico exits the ring with a swollen eye after losing a WBA interim super lightweight title fight to Marcos Maidana of Argentina at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada April 9, 2011. Maidana won the fight by majority decision. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Leopard rider Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland cycles in the 20th time trial stage in Grenoble during the Tour de France cycling race July 23, 2011. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

Vacansoleil-DCM rider Johnny Hoogerland of the Netherlands is pictured after crashing during the ninth stage of the Tour de France 2011 cycling race from Issoire to Saint-Flour July 10, 2011. Rabobank rider Luis Leon Sanchez of Spain won the stage while Europcar rider Thomas Voeckler of France took the leader's yellow jersey. REUTERS/Stringer

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Jason Perry Photo

Its the Single Speed Cross Country World Cup… SSCXWC.  It took place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Jason Perry was on site and documented the cyclocross action in his 2011 SSCXWC set for all of us to see.  Looks damn fun to me…. now all I have to do is get a cross bike.  Anyone got a couple grand i could have?

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Perfect…. hahah.  From http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/ via facebook

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Ryan went on to tell us how well his new “Get Big, Get Fast” race strategy is working for him. “The idea behind it is that you have to work so much harder if you’re bigger… so why not get HUGE and work that much harder”. Its a new idea on the running scene  that is starting to pick up steam.

A lot of people have picked Ryan to win Ironman Canada this year because of his new training methods. Kyle Marcotte, a former top ten ironman Canada finisher says “I’ve had some good weight gains in the last few months thanks to (the restaurant) Chicken On The Way, but Ryan’s weight gain is amazing, he’ll roll downhill so much faster than the competition. He is someone all the pros should be watching out for”.

Although Ryan’s methods might be unorthodox they seem to be working for him and other athletes who have adopted this training method. Only time will tell if it will work in the long run.

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Info on the Beer Mile can be found HERE

Rules for the Beer Mile click HERE

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Friday October 14th @ 7pm – Glenmore Track!

Tell Your Friends!

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“We wanted to build a convenient and efficient tool for pedestrians and cyclists,” said Corinna Baxter, a communications adviser with the city’s Parks department. “A lot of people have their iPhone or iPod Touch with them when they are out on the pathways.”

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Mission
The Jason Lapierre Memorial Cycling Weekend has evolved into one of Alberta’s premiere cycling events over it’s 4 years. With the race’s ever increasing exposure to the public, the mission has remained the same: to highlight the engaging, exciting, pure spectacle of speed on two wheels and the end result of countless hours of training and a healthy lifestyle. An increased appreciation of the end result makes motorists aware of the need for cyclists to safely share the road with vehicles.

Event history
Speed Theory Cycling, was rocked to its core on July 19th 2006 when a motorist, deemed 100% at fault, ended the life of one of the club’s best friends while he was out on a training ride near Cochrane Alberta. Along with the cycling club’s own growth in the last 5 years, the idea of hosting a flagship bike race in the downtown core has been an overall goal to place racing in an accessible exciting venue for Calgary’s public. This increased exposure will put faces and names to the hundreds of cyclists training on rural roads with the hope of greater tolerance. 2010 marked the inaugural Downtown Criterium where 2 entire city blocks are completely closed to traffic and pure racing and the product of a healthy, active lifestyle is put on public display. Five different abilities of athlete are put on show with separate events all commentaried by a professional MC. The ability classes go from athletes who enjoy cycling at a ‘hobby’ level while incorporating family and career all the way to aspiring professionals who will be fighting for valuable results! With the flagship event’s move to downtown, the ability to host a kid’s race was also an opportunity that was not missed. The Kid’s Crit opened the evenings events with a bang being open to kids from 3 – 15 years of age. It is always a crowd favourite.

Spread the word about the race to as many people as you can.  If you have the time and the resources feel free to print one of the posters and stick them up around town.  The more that people know about the race the better.

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Nice Crack

I was riding my cervelo a week ago and it started to creak near the bottom bracket so i took it into the shop to have a look at what was making the noise.  I took off the crank arms and found this little crack in the frame.  So no i am without a bike for the next few weeks while it gets sent back to cervelo and i get a warranty replacement.

So now that I am without a bike i’ve been spending some time up at the lake with my GoPro camera. I managed to mount it on the front of the ski and take a small video.  Have a peak.

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Rules:
Simple rules (from the spreadsheet entry form)…
-Submit your excel spreadsheet with picks to Kyle Marcotte (dukyle at yahoo dot ca) before 11:59pm Friday July 1st.
-You can enter multiple teams (Cost is $20 for your first team, $15 for your second, $10 for your third… per household)
-Results are final after each stage (so no drug overturn of results). Points schedule is listed below. Ties are divided by the number of stage wins, then stage points, then a coin toss.
-Trash talking is encouraged.

The spreadsheet/entry form is available now. Use this entry form, it makes the data entry so much easier on my part http://goo.gl/Sq7sl

Prizes (link to our prize list so far).

Scoring:
-Individual stage points: 1st – 25 points 2nd – 20 points 3rd – 15 points
-Yellow Jersey points: 1st – 150 points 2nd – 100 points 3rd – 75 points
-Green Jersey points: 1st – 100 points 2nd – 75 points 3rd – 50 points
-Polka dot Jersey points: 1st – 50 points 2nd – 40 points 3rd – 30 points
-Team placing: 1st – 50 points 2nd – 40 points 3rd – 30 points
-Yelow, Green, Polka dot and Team points are only awarded once at the end of stage 21 (but they will be updated so that you can see the swing as the race progresses).

The points will be updated as much as possible and posted on: http://www.calgarytriandbike.blogspot.com//

Again, all proceeds will be donated by the overall pool winner to the organization of their choice.  The pool winner will be receiving a tax receipt for the entire amount donated.

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Sports are supposed to be pure-that’s why there are rules and referees; that’s why the first Olympians competed in the nude. It’s also the reason that the federal government is spending millions and millions of dollars investigating a famous cyclist who has, after a decade of denials and countless drug tests, returned to the center of sports scandal. It must be summer, since Lance and doping have returned to the national discussion.

It’s only natural that when we discover our heroes have injected chemicals into their veins for a competitive edge (and I’m not saying Lance has, only that it’s looking increasingly difficult for him to prove that he hasn’t) we find them tainted and strip them of medals and put an asterisk by their names. Doping is ugly for fans but it goes beyond betrayal. Performance enhancers turn a contest between athletes into a competition among scientists and engineers. This is the best argument against enhancers. It’s also the best argument for them.

Let’s pretend, for a minute, that a separate league exists. Let’s call it the Asterisk League or, better, the League of Extraordinary Medicine. Drugs are legal but regulated. Athletes get educated about the risks, long term and short, of everything they introduce into-or onto-their bodies. Fans know exactly who is taking what and tracking their performance accordingly. Labs and scientists are inexorably linked to athletes’ rise and fall. Chemist versus chemist doesn’t sound like it would make great television, but the field would quickly advance to the point were records were broken daily and feats of crazy strength became the norm. Chemist versus chemist would become superhuman versus superhuman. Broadcasts could include expert scientists in the booth describing the limits of the human body and how these chemical enhancements get around that, or don’t. The League of Extraordinary Medicine is more honest, its regulation more sensible, since outlawing drugs just does not work-we’ve got a forever War on Drugs to prove it. And our tests for drugs still aren’t very good……

Read the full story at Popular Science

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I have Achilles Tendinitis (Tendinopathy)…. but, this is just a self diagnosis . After a ride to Cochrane the other week my achilles got a bit sore. I just assumed it was because I hadn’t ridden in a few months, and i guess i was right but i should have taken a bit more time off. Now i’m sitting in Pentiction with the sun shining, beautiful open roads just a few km’s away and my bike sitting beside me just itching to be taken out.

Rest and some anti-inflammatories, thats all i can do for now.

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