it maybe the worst video I've made but we do have fun

interesting...

http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/800082--turning-gold-into-cash-isn-t-easy-for-canadian-olympians

Turning gold into cash isn't easy for Canadian Olympians

April 24, 2010 Randy Starkman

MONTREAL—If Kaillie Humphries’ Olympic journey were a television commercial, it might say something like this:
Cost of bobsleigh runners: $40,000.
Monthly paycheque: $1,500.
Money still owed to dad: $5,000.
Value of Olympic gold medal: Priceless.
Result of sponsorship search to date: Fruitless.
It’s one of the great myths of Canadian Olympic sport – that a gold medal is a million-dollar lottery ticket.
“I’ve kind of fallen in the same trap thinking that as soon as you have that gold medal around your neck, you’re set for life,” said Humphries. “But I’m not from Korea or Japan where that happens.”
Even Humphries’ childhood hero, 1992 Olympic swim champ Mark Tewksbury, thought he’d hit the jackpot with his first Games medal, a relay silver in 1988 at Seoul.
“Literally, it equated to $100 to start a running race in Calgary,” said Tewksbury, now a successful entrepreneur. “That is the only money I got after Seoul. I had to make it happen. It’s not an easy gravy train.”

(part of the problem is he accepted the $100..... and set his value at... $100)


read on

Mark Bates - Canadian Triathlon LEGEND and now one heck of a photographer!!

http://video214.com/play/orfKt0zT3J4Ya3cOGQUZYw/s/dark?res=hq

WHAT A SPORT!!

on your mark get set go!

Gran Fondo Vancouver-Whistler!!!! @ the ceremonial start line (they clearly jumped the gun!).

www.vancouversun.com/sports/

great t's

oh so soft.

I'm a big fan of Endurance Conspiracy in fact I'd call myself a bit of a collector...

www.enduranceconspiracy.com

Specialized ROLL 2 + Chariot double stroller (w/bike attachment) = fun times cruising to coffee and a great way to get Pippa to preschool

Slowtwitch interview with the one and only Stuart Hayes.

Stu and I were jrs in Cancun 1995, we hung out together at the ITU development camp (along with Marc Jenkins) and we've been friends ever since. I'm stoked to hear he's focused and committed to London 2012, he's a great athlete and one heck of a nice guy.

A conversation with Stuart Hayes new

Written by: Herbert Krabel
Date: Fri Apr 16 2010

Stuart Hayes grabbed the runner-up spot at the 2010 ITU Mooloolaba Triathlon and is currently focused on gaining a spot on the British team for the 2012 Olympic Games. He was kind enough to have a few words with us.

Slowtwitch: You had a couple busy weekends, what is up next?

Stu: I am off too Clermont to do a little bit of training for the St Anthony's triathlon. This winter I have been training for ITU style racing, so I might struggle on the bike leg but I feel the non drafting racing make you stronger for the ITU races. After St Anthony's it is back to the UK for a couple of weeks and then back to the US for Hy-Vee triathlon. I always stay with TJ Tollakson before this race. His family really looks after me, and after the race he takes me on some great bike rides through the Iowa Corn fields.

ST: Nice podium finish in Mooloolaba.

Stu: I was a little shocked myself. It usually takes a couple of races for me to get some form so first race and a podium is a good sign for the rest of the season

for the rest of the interview.


http://www.slowtwitch.com/Interview/A_conversation_with_Stuart_Hayes_1300.html

my DIY rollers and training office "shed".

and yes I know, I'm a bit of a tri-geek at heart.

"I promise to walk him every day"

now kids, smoking isn't cool....

...but Kyle and I are considering rocking up to the start line like is.

Dressed to kick ass.

some pics from OZ

piecing together what I was thinking about at 2am with my daughter sleeping draped across my neck.

It's been 10 years since the Sydney Olympics and it's hard to reflect on the decade past and not just think about the present or at least the last two and a half years when life changed more then my better half and I could ever know. Having children has done exactly as advertised, it changed everything. I often come close to feeling overwhelmed by those moments of "I can't believe how special you are" balanced at times with that "what the F$#K do I do now?" feeling.

and we've only just begun the chapter with baby number 2.

I do remember that 10 years ago electronics weren't entangled like power cords into my life as they are now. I used a paper ticket to get to the Sydney Olympics, I brought a book on the plane, I read the paper on paper and I had no idea how much time I would eventually spend with this guy named Google. I was very excited that my green and gold Guru bike had the new 9 spd Shimano shifters, michelin tubular tires on Xtreme wheels and a mizuno carbon fork, I guess the shoe manufacture decided bike forks were the next big thing. Today my SL3 Tarmac is built on Specialized F.A.C.T. principals, I have a power meter that tracks my GPS location while charting my power wattage and my gears shift electronically. I imagine my handlebar will eventually read my gmail to me out loud.

how long until it's beamed straight into my temporal lobe?

In another 10 years my daughters will laugh out loud not only at the non digital pictures (what do you call those?) of their dad running around in his swim suit for a living but they'll ask me to make that noise the modem made when it rang up to the internet "tell us again tell us again daddy, you had to DIAL UP to the internat.... hhahahahaa and make that noise, do it do it".


"bzzzzz gge zzmmmm bzzzz rrrrrrrrrr ttttttaaaaannnnngggggg hmm vvvv aaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

They can tease me all they like, I'm learning there's nothing a parent won't do for their kids. From dancing in public, to running around a tree 1000 times, to dunking your face in ice cream to get a laugh, it's now all part of our daily existence. And that's out in public. The pictures in the hallway outside our girls rooms have seen more then their fair share of Jennie and I doing anything for a giggle, after all the discipline antics have failed, anything to avoid the 3rd consecutive 2am meltdown that seems to go on forever, "I'm going to count to 3.... 1...2....3....." and cue Chernobyl. In 2000 I had no idea that 10 years later I'd be back to sleeping in a single bed at times, jammed in the corner with my red faced and teary eyed 2 year old trying to catch her breath and finally calm down.

did I mention I'm often wearing compression tights.

I have to admit I don't like being reminded it's been 10years since Sydney. It reminds me that the end must be closer then the beginning. I wish this job I love so much, in such a wonderful sport, full of incredible champions and some of the greatest people you'll ever meet would just go on forever, can I please just have another 10 years at this level, is three more Olympics too much to ask for?

I'll run around my living room with my face covered in milk foam with pink bunny ears while making crazy faces.

I'll keep drinking those smoothies and panic that Javier is doing more then me.

I'll get up 5 times in a night then rush off to swimming, come home to a tantrum, try and do everything google is trying to get me to do, eat, drink more coffee, beg my kids to put on their shoes, make more funny faces, change into spandex, hammer a workout, rush home, drink more smoothie, try to share it with a daughter that doesn't like food, spend more time with google, try and fail to help with dinner time routine, try and fail to help with bed time routine, watch a dumb show to escape for a bit and repeat it all the next day.

I'd gladly do it for another 100 years.

It's just that much fun.

True-Motion comes through for Jordan.