Cycle the Sunshine Coast, BC: You Know Your Bored When....

2010 to 2011 Blog Posts - Virtual Tours

Over the past two years of having this Blog and fueled by my personal passion for cycling, I have posted blogs and have let people know where to ride on Sunshine Coast. Certainly the two elements has blurred a bit.

My blog has become many things including my training diary, my vessel to share my experiences with the world, promote the Sunshine Coast and to share in other cycling stuff that I find personally interesting.

My Homepage has my posts over the 2010 - 2012 years. When training for certain events, you get bored of analyzing data every which way, so in 2010 I started a virtual tour across Canada with the my cumulative training distance over the years and posted on Google Maps. It started out innocently enough with a question pondering if I virtually rode across Canada where would I be and what towns would I visit. The journey has been an interesting one and we live in a very vast and diverse country. Read on....

Sunday, November 14, 2010

You Know Your Bored When....

Well the rides are few and far between. The weather has been less than cooperating and being a fair weather rider (actually I don't have time to meticulously clean my bike), I've been avoiding going out in the rain. Well, I convinced myself that if I don't go, I'll get FAT so I figured that I'll need to buy new cables, chain, pulley wheels in the spring anyway so into the rain I go! Dressing for it is another matter...and I look like I've gained back all those pounds that I cycling off this spring, but its just hi-tech layers to keep me dry, or at least semi-dry.

With my other 6-8 hours/week of not training its being replaced by more creative or mundane things like making cycling caps. I can't get the brim right or the bottom of the hat straight. I'm on my 5th hat and they still suck to show anyone. On the other hand, I just made 2 bike tire belts.... And they look pretty good if I say so myself. Even my socially conscious son wanted a set. I think that I'll call them Re-Cycled Belts.