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I didn’t really have a distance target for bike riding this year. I did 3160km in 2007, and thought I might be able to hit 3500km without much trouble. But this summer, I realized that at the pace I was keeping, there was a chance to hit 4500km or even 5000km by the end of [...]
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I passed the 3100km mark on the ride home this afternoon. 3100km ridden on my bike so far in 2008. Seems like a strange milestone – but I’ve now ridden more as of August 12 2008 than I did in all of 2007.
I thought I pretty much maxed out riding last year. But I started [...]
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I’m definitely not the most prolific photographer, but it only took me 4 years to publish 5,000 photos to Flickr. Not all are publicly viewable, but they are all available under a simple Creative Commons Attribution license.
Here’s #5,000 – my 2008/366photos from today, of my son Evan being a typical pyromaniac kid at the campground [...]
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That’s like riding from Calgary to Vancouver and back. Or Calgary to Thunder Bay. Heck, I could have ridden from Calgary to San Francisco, with over 400km to spare. hmmm….
I’ve been riding my bike as primary transportation on my commute for a couple of years now (started really doing it again in 2006, after a [...]
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I did it. I managed to ride my bike 3000km (so far) in 2007. Last year, I rode about 1500km. I estimated I might ride 2000-2500km this year. But this morning, after dropping Evan off at school, I pulled the bike out and rode along the Bow River Pathway. I’ve now ridden over 3000km this [...]
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I passed the 1500km mark on the way home today. At 26km/day, I’m hoping to add at least another 1000km before the riding season ends. Following Dave King’s lead, I’m taking a photo at every 100km rollover. Here’s what 1500km looked like:
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I just passed the halfway point for my 2007 “365 photos” challenge, where I try to take at least one photo every day for the entire year 2007. I’ve actually been successful in taking a photo per day. Most days, I take many, so the hardest part is picking the “best” photo to represent the [...]
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I passed the 1000 km mark half way into my ride home today. Since I started riding in July, I’ve now ridden over 1000 km just commuting to and from work, broken into 80 equal 12.54 km trips. That’s roughly equivalent to riding from Calgary to Vancouver, even when accounting for vertical climb (92m per ride). I’m feeling better than I have in years, and am probably in the best physical shape I’ve been in since high school (although you couldn’t tell by looking).
I’ve realized just how BAD Calgary drivers are. Aggressive. Mean. Rude. Dangerous. And occasionally nice/courteous/cool. But mostly evil. They act like they’re entitled to the entire road. They don’t have to be aware of their surroundings. They don’t have to put down the cell phone long enough to pass through a busy intersection. They can cut off anyone they feel like, at any time, without warning. They have the “Baby on Board” sign on the minivan/SUV, so it’s all good.
I’m not planning on being a religious psycho bike rider. When the weather gets really crappy, I’ll start taking the bus again. But my definition of “crappy weather” keeps adjusting…
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I just realized that it’s been approximately 5 years since I started “blogging” – shortly after the untimely demise of The Company Who Shall Not Be Named (March, 2001), I started dabbling with weblog software. First, I played with a copy of a blog app that was included on my Dad’s MacAddict CD-ROM, then I played with Blosxom. The first year’s worth of posts were either intensely personal, or intensely boring (or both) and have long since evaporated into the ether. The oldest surviving post on this blog is just shy of 4 years old.
There must be some kind of pin or something. Or maybe a support group or 12-step program…
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We were able to record that Intro to Podcasting presentation I gave on Wednesday, and the video has been processed and compressed. The audio is a bit wonky because the microphones were fixed and all turned on – and I wasn’t wearing a lapel mic so I get hard to hear as I wander around the front of the room. Next time, I’ll wear a lapel mic, and warn everyone that all of the microphones are on all the time to avoid the paper rustling and desk drumming that got picked up.
Thanks to King for working his video compression ninja skillz on the rough VHS source. He pumped out a small (iPod) and larger (computer playable) version.
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