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d & m engagement

My bro and his fiancee asked if I could take their engagement photos for them, and I am flattered and honoured to be able to contribute. It was a fun evening, and we’re thinking about doing a second shoot at another location.

They have asked that I not distribute any photos until they are able to launch their website (therefore giving family and friends a reason to visit the website), but I’m cheating a little and sharing with you my favourite of the photos.

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middle sister

A couple of weeks ago I hiked scrambled up to the top of the Middle Sister with my brother and dad.  It was fairly epic, mostly because I had been anticipating a nice but long hike, and as it turns out it’s really not a hike at all.  Scramble.  Definitely a scramble.  The way up felt pretty good, but the way down was a little scary as part of it was quite steep and slippery (but not slippery in a good shale way, slippery in a bad hard packed dirt way). The day ended off with a hamburger and root beer from The Grizzly Paw in Canmore, which was delicious!

Here’s the day in numbers:

• Highest elevation: 2769 m
• Return distance: 18.8 km
• Elevation difference from parked Jeep to the peak:  1412m
• Time to peak: 4 hrs 30 min
• Time back: 3 hrs 40 min
• Water consumed by three travelers: 7 liters

view of the big sister peak from the top of the middle sister

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second olympic triathlon

I completed my second Olympic triathlon!  This update is coming a bit late, but better late then never…

Lake Chestermere went well.  The lake was full of freshly mowed seaweed, bike course was quite pretty and flat and a little shorter than the previous race I did, and the run was hot and had a solid uphill that I had to do 4 times.  Overall though, it was good.

Event: Lake Chestermere Tri-It Triathlon, Chestermere
Date: July 17, 2011
Distance: Olympic

Swim – 1.5 km – 36:47
Bike – 34.2 km – 1:20:55
Run – 10 km – 1:00:07

Overall Time: 2:57:48

And that concludes my triathlon goals for this year!  Now to decide what my next goal will be…

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first olympic triathlon

I did it!  I completed my first Olympic Triathlon!

Event: Lake Summerside Triathlon, Edmonton
Date: June 26th, 2011
Distance: Olympic = Swim 1.5km, Bike 40km, Run 10km
Time: 3:19:49

Woohoo!  Now to start thinking about the next one…  :)

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island biking adventure two

Today I traded up my bike to an even nicer hybrid with clipless pedals and no creaking sound (yay!) and took it on an adventure along the coast line.  I started in Victoria and followed the edge of the island all the way around to Mt. Douglas.  The top of Mt. Douglas was wonderful, as the view was quite amazing and made the painful ride uphill worth it.  I think I biked a total of about 40km.  One of the sites along the route was “Mile 0″ of the TransCanada.  It was overrun with three bus loads of children not five seconds after I took this photo.  Phew!