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		<title>August 24, 2010 &#8211; 6381.4!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I went for a quick rip on the &#8216;cross bike after work.  40km on the rail trail,  which brought my total for 2010 to 6381.4km&#8211;more than I&#8217;ve ever recorded before in a year! Last year I rode a total of 6345.8km, which was the most I&#8217;d ever done in a year until today.  Hopefully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/08/24/august-24-2010-6381-4/</link>
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		<title>Apologies to Kenneth Grahame, but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA["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 &#8216;messing about&#8217; with. Walking home from work yesterday, I was still feeling burnt out, and not very motivated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/08/20/apologies-to-kenneth-grahame-but/</link>
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		<title>The 40km Project – Part VIII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow.  Part VIII already!  Perhaps this 40km Project is getting a bit drawn out.. and I haven&#8217;t even finished all the posts about the bike yet.  However, that seems to be of lesser importance, since I&#8217;ve been racing! Sunday was attempt number two at the hour mark on the Calabogie course.  My parents were up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/08/10/the-40km-project-%e2%80%93-part-viii/</link>
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		<title>J&amp;B, TT, TdF, RFP (a.k.a. the acronym post)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this update has sure been a long time coming!  Despite (because of?) how much has been going on I&#8217;ll keep this short and sweet. Yesterday, Steve, Ian and I did the &#8216;Scotch Run&#8221; &#8211; a 120km ride from Merrickville to Carolin&#8217;s family cottage, where we met her dad for a couple of ounces of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/08/01/jb-tt-tdf-rfp-a-k-a-the-acronym-post/</link>
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		<title>OBC Grand Prix 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s close by, I made it a &#8216;target&#8217; race this season.  Here&#8217;s my race report on how things went down this year in the Senior 3 race (after all, Tales [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/07/18/obc-grand-prix-2010/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;3 Foot&#8221; Passing Law &#8211; Please sign the Petition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ontario Bill 74 passed its first reading in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on May 18th, 2010.  The private member&#8217;s bill, introduced by Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo, is intended to make Ontario&#8217;s roadways safer for cyclists by requiring motorists to give cyclists a wide berth when passing (between 3 and 5 feet depending on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/07/13/3-foot-passing-law-please-sign-the-petition/</link>
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		<title>The 40km Project &#8211; Part VII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was my first real shot at the sub-hour 40km.  The bike was ready.  The conditions were good (sunny, not too much wind, perhaps a bit hot for my liking, but better than too cold!)  The question that remained was whether I was ready. Yesterday was a slow easy ride on the TT bike to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/07/04/the-40km-project-part-vii/</link>
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		<title>The 40km Project – Part VI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well!  Lots of stuff going on (as evidenced by the lack of updates to this site!)&#8230; The 40km Project has been moving along nicely, and the bike has now been built up (thanks Shawn!) and ridden (once!)  I will continue to post updates about individual components as I have time, but we&#8217;ll skip ahead for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/06/30/the-40km-project-%e2%80%93-part-vi/</link>
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		<title>Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a slightly modified version of an update I sent to a friend about the Rideau Jamie Lakes Tour  2010.  I&#8217;m too lazy to type out the story again, so this should suffice: Friday. Day the Zero. Worked until 4pm. Booo. Walked home. Beauty day. Packed up bike and assorted random gear into car. Waited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/06/08/ridea-lakes-cycle-tour-2010/</link>
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		<title>Dandelion Grand Prix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday was was the first ever Dandelion Grand Prix, held in Oxford Mills as a part of the &#8220;Old Town Kemptville Dandelion Festival.&#8221;  I had done a short (10km) warmup prior to the race, and was able to get a look at the start of the &#8216;chip seal&#8217; road that everyone had warned me about.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darrencope.com/2010/06/01/dandelion-grand-prix/</link>
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