Things are getting heady, swirling, spinning out of control, like vials of blood in the centrifuge. The growing swarm of controversy surrounding professional cyclist Lance Armstrong and accusations of doping [a general term for the use of performance enhancing drugs, banned pain-killers, EPO, …
Dear Paul’s Dirty Enduro, I am writing to you today to vent my frustration at yet again having my efforts to complete the 100km race thwarted. With three attempts initiated, I have still only completed that damn race once; and …
Just one week left till Paul’s Dirty Enduro! This killer mountain-bike race–there are 100km, 60km, 30km, 15km options as well as a kids race–is such a fun, laid-back event for all; participants, organizers and volunteers alike. Okay, maybe not so …
For the past sixteen years–seventeen this year–the good folks at the Bloomfield Bicycle Co. have teamed up with the Canadian Mental Health Association to host Paul’s Dirty Enduro; a mountain-bike race like no other. Named for a friend of the …
The training was complete. There was no more carbo-loading, no more sleep, no more talkin’. There was just 322 kilometres. Sunday was the 35th riding of the Hairshirt and your’s truly was there. I felt well prepared both physically and …