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Ryder Hesjedal launches the tour de Victoria

January 6, 2011

“Growing up cycling on the roads and trails of Greater Victoria provided me the skills and solid cycling foundation to achieve 7th in the 2010 Tour de France.” ~Ryder Hesjedal Ryder Hesjedal’s rise to fame in last year’s Tour de France has not gone unnoticed in his hometown of Victoria, B.C. In response to Hesjedal’s […]

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Seeing into the future: a new vision for 2011

January 1, 2011

My friends know that my last eighteen months have been no walk in the park. I’ve had to make some major adjustments in my life. I’ve had to recalibrate my focus, so to speak. However, things I used to be “too busy” to keep up with have benefitted. This blog is one result, as well […]

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Cycling in the new year

December 31, 2010

For me, every new year is a big zero. Tonight, I’ll be resetting my bike computers to naught and replacing batteries—whether they need it or not. As seen in the photo above, I still use basic odometers. But why two? Redundancy, my friends. With two computers on board, if I delete a setting halfway through […]

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Back to Mt. Baker on my first 400-kilometre randonnée

December 29, 2010

Burnaby, 06:00 I had just organized and completed my first 300-kilometre randonnée—the difficult “Tsunami” route, with 3,900 metres of climbing—so I figured I was ready for the next challenge on the British Columbia Randonneurs’ 2005 calendar: The Mount Baker 400. Looking back, I realize those two rides were a bold (or perhaps imprudent) way to […]

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Happy Christmas and a merry goo year

December 24, 2010

As I’ve mentioned before, in the ’60s I was a member of the Official Beatles Fan Club. Every year, I eagerly awaited the arrival of the members-only Beatles Christmas Record. I brought these treasures to Canada with me and, as you might imagine, they were wildly popular with my new Canadian pals. Unfortunately, someone could not resist […]

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Poem for the lunar eclipse

December 20, 2010

“All saints revile her, and all sober men” ~Robert Graves, The White Goddess Photo byGregory H. Revera Thirty-below Smoke from my cabin chimney― a steel blade cutting through black trees to the Milky Way, a cloud of blasted diamonds The Great Bear triangulates sleep Moon draws aside dark curtains on voluptuous white skin garden of […]

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