2010 July | Tired of I.T!

Food: What I’m eating While Touring

Jul 292010

Food, 1/3 of the essential requirements for a successful bike ride (others being water and shelter) can be one of the most difficult tasks to master while on a long distance bicycle tour. According to my Daily Statistics I’m burning 5000-6000 calories per day while spending long times in the saddle (8hr+). Knowing the signs of when it’s time to stop to recharge your body with nutrients takes a bit of time understanding the correct time to eat as opposed to snacking is a non-stop work in process dependent entirely [read more]

Mechanical (Mental?) Meltdowns

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Jul 172010

Here’s an interesting twist to the journey. I’m back where I was 15 days ago, in the Northwest Territories, taking in the spectacular sights, sounds, and people of Yellowknife. Even stranger, is that I’m here without my bicycle! I did mention before in an earlier post that I somehow forgot to make it to the Legislative Building to do a head stand in the Caucus room, so I came back. Also, there is a festival happening in its 30th year known as Folk on the Rocks, and an airshow in [read more]

Find out what’s going on in my head?

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Jul 142010

A few weeks ago when I was in Yellowknife, NWT I had the opportunity to blab into a microphone and camera for 25 minutes for YKOnline.ca – a smaller local news portal for the city residents. I chose this method as opposed to the local paper, or the bigger news stations for overall creativity (meaning, that the majority of the interview doesn’t get cut from me going left field!), and the fact I like to support smaller operations. The interview came out pretty good, and you can see the original [read more]

Rocky Riding

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Jul 132010

Its coming up on 6pm and I’m throwing in the towel for even getting started for the day. It’s been non stop rain in the town of Jasper, Alberta nestled in the Rocky Mountains, with temperatures hovering at 4 degrees today. My tent is soaked, my sleeping bag is moist, and mattress pad is making some squishing noises – so rather than pack it all up to get all gross, I’m going to spend one more night in someones backyard where the weather will be much better come morning. So [read more]

Reunited

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Jul 092010

What a tiring week. I’ve been back on the bike everyday after taking a 14 day breather to reassess some of my goals, fix some bike issues that have crept up, and take in my surroundings. With that, came a lack of sleep which didn’t fare well for the mountainous terrain I’ve put myself into. I flew out of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories early in the morning the day after Canada Day, and flew into Cranbrook, a city I visited a couple of weeks earlier before heading into the north. I’ve [read more]

BC Statistics

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Jul 082010

Statistics while cycle touring throughout British Columbia, Canada, with photos, travelers information, daily logs of distance, elevation and costs, journal entries.

Rolling over the odometer

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Jul 072010

I’m rolling over the odometer in a few ways today. First, I turn 32, in the beautiful town of Banff Alberta, Second – I crossed over the 10,000 km mark today in one year of touring. I’m doing a little site reorganization and joining the previous tours all into one from here on in – a Fraser Valley run, a jaunt around the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island, down to the Tijuana, Mexico border, and the present shangri-la journey around the world, while still only making it one time zone [read more]

A few minor website tweaks

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Jul 042010

I suppose I did get some work done while I was gluing my ass to a chair in Yellowknife. I left Cranbrook BC with a list of 5 issues that needed to be sorted out. I’m happy to report I completed every single task on that list. While not perfect, it can be refined in the future. 1) Page load times have been reduced. I’m using 2 layers of caching, a form of storing frequently accessed data to send to you, so that it doesn’t tax the server each time [read more]

Sparkles from the Diamond in the North

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Jul 032010

First off, I must apologize for the lack of updates since arriving in Yellowknife. The fact of the matter is that I’ve been incredibly busy, if you can call sitting on a sun porch watching the endless sun from a far, safely protected by the mosquitoes, wasps, and brief amounts of rain ‘busy’. The beauty of the capital city of the Northwest Territories has impacted me in more ways than one, and I found myself quickly settling into a very comfortable spot in life. So far, this has been the [read more]