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My 5th Year as Cycling President

If we’re just meeting, I’m president of a cycling team, and we race in the OCA – Ontario Cycling Association.

See the red logo on the shoulders?  That’s my internet show, The Canadian Explorer.

2007-10 I travelled around Canada celebrating it (do more of that, okay), documented it all in 80 episodes, they were some of the best years I ever had.  The site is a mess, but if you’re willing to wade around there’s some entertaining stuff over there.

Other teams have tents and buses, many are 30+ members strong.

We are small and scrappy, but we medal a lot.  

We are a great team.

We’ve placed 3rd in Ontario 3 times already this season!

 

Who’s with me?

Click here for all cycling posts, and here’s a great post to meet the team, there’s two videos.

One of my favourite things about a race: the mobile command centre.

Another favourite part:


What a great way to mark time.  You know how I feel about time.

My least favourite part.

They race for 90 minutes, so sometimes you have to feed them.

They grab the bottle at 30km/h, and if you screw up they cramp up, lose, and you are a bad president.

(note: if you ever meet someone who did this race, be impressed; that hill is gruesome)

Here’s to a successful second half of the season, team, <3 ya!  

 

 

Cycling Animated Gifs & SEO Experiments

There’s a reason I’m doing this.

I’m trying to rank for “cycling animated gifs”, because very few exist.

I like to see if I can rank for things, for kicks.

There’s the Barking Fish Cafe (7th), Skynet Becomes Self Aware (28th), World Planking Day (12th), and Big Mac Virus (3rd).

These are my SEO Experiments.

I have some things to say about SEO these days, I’ve got a half drafted blog post here, coming soon.

PS – if you’d like to see some REALLY nice animated gifs, meet From Me To You, they’re gorgeous.

PPS – Hope this didn’t load too slow, I made them small, I’m thinking about your load time! I always do.

Meet My Cycling Team

If we recently met, it’s my 4th season of being President of a Cycling Team, so there will be summer braggy posts like this, and overly-dramatic capitlaizing of words like President.

My team is awesome, and we win a lot.

Technically they are riding for my show, The Canadian Explorer.

This is Episode #30 from said show – Exploring Cycling.

I should record a Twitvid of the audio when the peloton goes by. A peloton is a pack of cyclists.

Racing is brutally hard, like, see top right above? If you had that much lactic acid in your body right now, you wouldn’t be able to finish reading this post, you’d be so sick.  Beasts.

Couple that with how I rule with my little iron fist, and you get wins.

Last week we placed first in the KW Classic 2011 Road Race, YES Nick!!  The year before that we took second, YES Gary!!  As in, the best in all Ontario YES.

Nationals are coming up, and then the Canada Day Chin Picnic, which we dominated last year.

Sometimes, not gonna lie, in between laps can be a bit dull.

Good thing I am excellent at amusing myself.  Here’s how I sometimes cheer.  And look, it’s just my size.

One time though I was too good at it, and missed the finish to the above 1st/2nd win, because I was picking flowers in the park.

Some weekend ago was freezing and I had only sandals. I tried putting hot balm on my feet (it works), then hiked around the track.

It’s weird to look down and have someone else’s feet be there.

Here’s my favoruite parts about the sport of cycling.

I filmed this ages ago, when I was testing doing videos on a time-limit, which became my mini-video-series – Just a Minute.

They’re all one minute long, a variety of topics, click here, watch just one, thanks!

Kay one more dramatic photo.

All KeriBlog cycling posts found here.

All Canadian Explorer cycling posts here

PS – to my older readers thanks, I know you’ve seen some of the above before, but now I have a solid cycling-themed post to use as an introduction and sales too ;)

My Cycling Team is Top in Ontario AGAIN!

Once again my cycling team is tops in Ontario, YES fellas.

My team are O-cup racers, which means, they compete against the top cyclists in the province.

From last week at the 43rd Annual Springbank race in London Ontario, here’s teammate Nick…

A 40km race around a 2.2km loop (so 18 times around), all in the freezing rain (that wasn’t the best Sunday weather that day).

During the last lap he pulled ahead of eeeeeveryone…

And then:

Tada! FIRST PLACE!

Congratulations Nick! You’re killing it!

First Cycling Race of the Season

Sunday it was off to Calabogie Motorsports Track with my team for 2011’s first OCA race.

The boys did great, way to go fellas!

And just like both years past (this is my 3rd season having a team under my Canadian Explorer brand) I underdressed and had to wear Nate’s clothes.  The large arrow above is pointing at Nate.

I have there carbon fiber knuckles, ha.

Last year I stood all zipped up like that for an entire lap, laughing my head off inside the zipper yelling, “this is how I cheer!“.