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Well, its been a while so let me sum it up for you in one word: newjoblotsaracesgumgraftfixedkneeproblemthursdayregularlovenewjoblovemicallovebikesagainpedalcorrespondentforbcbr. If you followed all that I applaud you! The newest and coolest news is that just Saturday I found out I would be doing on site correspondence for Pedal Magazine at BCBR. Ya, me...I know hey!?! The cool thing about it ( and mildly terrifying) is that I also get to race it. Online daily updates, as many photos as people will allow, a magazine spread at the end and a chance I may never see on my own and blogging like I did last year but from a different perspective. I also get to chase Mical and Jeff around for 7days. Chase from very far away I imagine. I have to race against Many Prado and Chris Sheppard so my category is sandbaggy!! (sense the sarcasm). Stay tuned for many photos and info about our week at BCBR. I think a weeks notice prior to doing a race like that is enough, don't you? Big thanks to My bo...

I AM FUCKING TIRED OF PROFESSIONAL CRITICS!

Road riding really lets my brain empty and lets me reflect on time. I've dropped the truck off for Mical at the airport and decided to ride back in with a stop at The Dump. Lots has happened in the last few months and I am full of good thoughts and warm fuzzies as I face the headwind on West Saanich. Mical and I are enjoying our new life together, which includes a lot of riding, eating and relaxing. I have decided I would race XC all season, mostly Island cup, but hopefully some BC Cup stuff as well. Just Intermediate as I am a firm believer that there are just some guys that shouldn't race above their cat...and I am one of those guys!! and on top of all that I have started a new job with Trek Pro City. Thanks to Cam and Christian at Mac's for 3 plus years of work but it was just time to move on. Worked for a week and I really think I am going to like it. So on with the races. Trek Pro City kicked off the Island Cup XC series at Hartland a few weeks ago with a wicked fun an...

It is now January 2010 and the grey skies seem to be getting to me a lil bit! Mical and I had an awesome Xmas and New Year. The first of many to come just like that I hope! Lotsa riding, lotsa food and a few to many treats!! Hung out in Seattle for a day which was so nice, till my camera decided to have a shit....so we bought a new one! LOL! Lot of really neat spots there and I can't wait to go back when we can spend a lil more time together and the new camera will be joining us too!! Its now the 5th and she has gone to FMM to work to pay for the summer ahead. I think its a great opportunity for experience and she only has to work till the thaw, few months. And its a plus that she can go xc skiing there on time off. I miss her a ton and having an empty house again has made my mind become a lil more active and my body not! Thinking about dad, worrying about mom and Aaron as well as career confusion. No inspiration to ride or shoot. A skunky lil funk that will not last long, or I ...

Coming off a great day with my baby I am left very reflective and very hungry!! Thinking about last weekend as its pain is still very fresh in my head. We flew back to FMM for a celeb ration of life for Dad put on by the School board. I must be honest in saying I was less then thrilled about this ceremony but mom booked us tickets then told me so I couldnt really avoid it. The turn out was nice, people that I really didn't expect to see even showed up. Gil Espejo put together a great lil slide show of photos my family put together complete with music. Francois set up a web cam at Aarons hospital so he could watch via Skype and people could talk to him as well. The topper was the Lefevbre and Diakow families dressed up in the Bill Pringle tuxedo!! I got stressed about nothing as it was very nice lil ceremony. The next day we took dads ashes to the cemetery to place him in his final resting place. A perfect -28 for the day. A lil prayer and words and mom placed him in as I comforte...

Sunday was the last Cross on the Rocks race at the brilliant venue of Shawnigan lake school. Mical and I awoke nice and early, had a big ass breaky , packed up Big Red and made our last race day trip up island. For those of you who have never seen Shawigan School it is one of those places that the Fortune 500 kids go to school at. The grounds are out of a fairy tale almost and the facility as a whole is immaculate! You walk into the rugby clubhouse where registration was and its all oversized leather sofas and chairs. I wanted to cancel our day and get a cigar and brandy and enjoy the room, but there is a race today so maybe another time! All set so we gear up for a couple warm up laps of the 3km course. Super soft "cow pasture" right off the horn. Twisty, off camber, slippery and throw in a mini whirly bird too........thats gonna be DEEP!! Next section spit you into a creek bed single track, rocky and how you say moist and fast? Leading up high speed to the run up of 1000 ...

I am sitting here editing photos, having a beer and reflecting on this past week and all the emotion and energy surrounding it. It was truly one of the busier weeks in a long while. First there's racing Sunday, Mical and I driving home Monday, working all week and squeezing in a few pre work rides, organizing and unpacking and lotsa figuring out where stuff goes best....as well as 8 bikes!! Take that and couple it with my fathers passing my mind has had hardly a moment to rest. If Mical wasn't with me this would be soooo much harder then it al ready is! She truly is the light of my day! She arrived right into a double header weekend of racing on the rock! I couldn't get Saturday off so I sent her out solo in Big Redd to find the farm. From what I heard it was a total slop fest!! And after seeing some pics I know why! She had fun and her bike and kit, even after spraying it off was more then a lil funky!! hahah. Jamie and Susan threw a nice social later that eve and we got t...