Cold. Long. Fun actually!

I rode in a winter bike race called the Actif Epica, on Saturday. It was a pretty cold day. The wind was from the North for most of the day, and the windchill was around -40'C. Here's what it looked like in the morning when we started. 

photo by Tom Kolesnik

Here's what I looked like at the first checkpoint in St. Pierre.

photo by Kim Mitchell

The race was 130-ish kms long from St. Malo to The Forks in Winnipeg. It took me 10 hours and 22 minutes and I placed 7th.

photo by Actif Epica

Good times!

Essay published in Bunyan Velo

A story I wrote about last year's Actif Epica race has been published in the latest issue of Bunyan Velo. It's a beautiful magazine about two-wheeled adventuring and I'm honoured to be included in it.

You can find the issue my piece is in, here at http://issuu.com/bunyanvelo/docs/bv05 at no cost, but please consider purchasing a hi-res pdf version of this issue and the four previous issues of the magazine. They're only $5 and it will help a small but vital publication keep working! We want these sort of "nice things" so sometimes we should be prepared to pay a little, don't you think?

Also look for a great piece by Mark Reimer about his and Graham Madden's summer Muerto ride. The cover features Mark's shot of Graham.