Ready for New York City

Starting the run at Ironman Canada 2007. That was hard!

It’s been about ten years since I ran my last stand alone marathon. Over the course of five years in the early 90’s I ran six marathons, posting a personal best at California International way back in 1992. When I was [...]

Cultivating a Calm and Joyful Mind
After twenty years in sport, I have a pretty good understanding of what physiological markers I need to reach in training in order to achieve certain goals in competition. I have never yet tired of the relentless pursuit of the perfect race, nor the simple act of putting on my [...]

Athletes and Artists: Not So Different!

I just came across another blog–this one about art and being creative. It’s called Sixty Minute Artist, and the author has 4 kids and a full time job and needed to find a way to do art to stop himself from going crazy. So he finds sixty minutes each day [...]

“What to do with an old box, Idea #546″: Make an Alien helmet. (unkl Dan photo)
What does this have to do with anything? The box started life holding the vase that I won for coming first in the Royal Victoria Half Marathon this last weekend. The kid inside is my son Ross. The cool [...]