DARREN COPE

Today I went for a quick rip on the ‘cross bike after work.  40km on the rail trail,  which brought my total for 2010 to 6381.4km–more than I’ve ever recorded before in a year! Last year I rode a total of 6345.8km, which was the most I’d ever done in a year until today.  Hopefully [...]

“There is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about on bikes.” (apologies to Kenneth Grahame, of course) Although I love boats (especially canoes), it seems to me that bikes are even more worthy of ‘messing about’ with. Walking home from work yesterday, I was still feeling burnt out, and not very motivated [...]

Wow.  Part VIII already!  Perhaps this 40km Project is getting a bit drawn out.. and I haven’t even finished all the posts about the bike yet.  However, that seems to be of lesser importance, since I’ve been racing! Sunday was attempt number two at the hour mark on the Calabogie course.  My parents were up [...]

Well, this update has sure been a long time coming!  Despite (because of?) how much has been going on I’ll keep this short and sweet. Yesterday, Steve, Ian and I did the ‘Scotch Run” – a 120km ride from Merrickville to Carolin’s family cottage, where we met her dad for a couple of ounces of [...]

Yesterday was the OBC Grand Prix.  Since I am a big fan of suffering in hills, this race is one of my favourites, and since it’s close by, I made it a ‘target’ race this season.  Here’s my race report on how things went down this year in the Senior 3 race (after all, Tales [...]