the humbler ...
just finished my first "bike specific" training week ... meaning i do an extra ride during the week and a long long ride (150k in this case).
tough day on the bike though ... 75k in the pack, nice and easy ... followed by 75k into the wind by myself ... the rest were either doing 100k or 180k ... was in a world of hurt (to use gideon's terminology) for the last 50k of it. there was lots of other "carnage" on beach road coming back into the city ... lots of people in the same boat. ouch.
at least it was dry though, the past 4 weeks have been rainy and cold. i'll take wind over rain any day.
posted by Mark Robinson at 5:10 PM
11 Comments:
nope, i won't be getting a trainer. we are in the heart of winter right now, so yeah, we can ride year-round. we got frost for one saturday morning and it is generally annoyingly cold if it rains, but it is a treat to be able to bike outdoors year round.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:37:00 AM
two words:
NOT FAIR.
why did my family come to canada, and not to the sunny shores of ozzie? i could've had an australian twang and buff biking legs.
Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:28:00 AM
Briana, Hetti's a Torontonian. Canada ends west of oakville
Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:05:00 AM
That's awesome that you can ride outside all year long. But when does it get dark in the evenings? Can you ride in the evenings or is it too dark?
PS Not only is Hetti a Torontonian - she is also a federal civil servant. Canada definitely ends West of Oakville.
Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:58:00 AM
Oooh, I smell Albertan alienation in the air...
Besides, we all know that Canada only starts getting good at the Rockies, and then it's pretty much constant improvent till you hit the beach.
Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:15:00 PM
where's alberta? that's out west, right? are they a part of canada? whoooooooahh...
p.s. my a$$ is full of muscle.
Friday, July 22, 2005 12:12:00 AM
Hetti, that's right. Alberta is the province where 90% of the population is wondering how on earth a parlimeantary secretary from St. Paul's could seriously advocate a national swimming programme for children, and keep a straight face.....
Friday, July 22, 2005 4:46:00 AM
YO. you think I like working for her too? I can't stand her "handlers". Ughhhhhhhhh!
Friday, July 22, 2005 11:45:00 PM
She has handlers? Do they get paid? By the liberals? They're supposed to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid aren't they, like say suggest a national swimming program?
Friday, July 22, 2005 11:58:00 PM
Well, I guess it all depends on what you think the government is responsible for providing as a service for its citizens based on taxation (which at the end of the day is enforced through the use of physical force).
While I'm not against providing health services (although I'm against making it illegal to provide private services), education, defence, limited employment insurance, etc... I cannot see it is as useful way to spend public money.
The number of drowning related deaths that could be prevented by children knowing how to swim is absurdely low, and when you consider how expensive it would be to institute the program.
Programs which I wouldn't support, but which would surely have a larger effect on safety, deaths and medical costs and be more cost effective would a nation "drivers education" course and "bicycle riders education " course.
The reason Ms. Benett made up this program is that the TO Star did an article on all of the drowning deaths in Ontario recently, and being a person who feels there is no problem the government can't solve, she threw out the idea of a national swimcare program. Notice how quickly it fell from the national radar, it must have had something to do with how good of an idea it was.
How she passed her medical quals. is beyond me?
Frankly, every time I go to the doctor now, I think that people like her can become MDs and it frightens the hell out of me.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:20:00 AM
that's the thing - do you think MDs really know how to make good policy? they think they do, but sometimes, they just.don't.get.it...
it's great how the toronto star gets the public rolling on certain issues - run a story about the appalling state of long-term care homes, then run a picture of george smitherman crying over the state of these LTC homes...voila. government action on long-term care homes.
do a gambling series to say that the province has a social problem that's related to gambling... voila. all editorials from all three papers (G&M, NP, and of course, the Star) talk aboot this growing problem. now, there's ON government action on VLT machines.
isn't it funny how politicians make "sound" policy decisions based on media opinion and judgement? i'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but it's so easy to jump on a "sexy" policy issue, and make yourself the hero by doing "change" in that particular area.
as for bennett's handlers, they're paid by the liberals. my bosses call them her BYM (beautiful, young men), but trust me, bennett's are *not* attractive (ahem - pot bellies). pierre pettigrew's BYM, on the other hand...thumbs up!
Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:31:00 AM
Post a Comment
<< Home