Cesar's Blog

Who said it is impossible to train in the city??? I have a 20km commute to work each way and living in one of the best locations of the city I can either get to and from work in my road bike (on a nice paved path), run or hit the trails (mostly single track) in my mountain bike. It is up to you to make it harder or to take it easy. Some times I even find faster riders on the path to chase and make it even harder! Last week I started riding my mtb to work and the trails by Bowmont are in amazing conditions. They have a bit of everything, up hills, down, skinny sections and even some rocky stuff to make it fun. Not only Bowmont, but I can now connect with the south side of the river right behind shouldice and ride more single track all the way down to Crowchild, which makes it almost 15k of fun single track each way. There are so many option around that I never get bore... So, I guess I have to be optimistic about this because with all the time limitations these days due to ...

I definitely own these shoes a review, a good review ! I have always considered myself a runner, ever since I was 13 I have been running everywhere and for any reason (after work, before work, to and from work, to and from school, to the mountains) especially back in Venezuela I was always running, on my own, with Eduardo with Maida, with anyone that wanted to run. My favorite place was in the Avila, I would spend hours just running up and down and across that mountain.... Anyway, I bought these shoes last week only because they were on sale $80! and because they look flashy. I run 10k on Monday to break them in and man they are fast ! they feel like a glove, they are light and have a nice and solid grip! my best shoe ever, I am loving them and I am looking for another pair :-)

As usual, thanks to Craig Stappler who manages to suck people into these great bike adventures we were able to ride one more time the Water Valley loop in 2013, only difference (at least for Kate and Me) is that we rode it twice in three days OUCHHH! Yeap, when Craig said in his email that he was going to ride it on Thursday I sent him an email asking about his plans, it turned out that he was riding it with Kate so I decided on a suicide mission to join them as well !!@### We left from Kate's place at a nice social pace and 3 hours later we were already having coffee in Water Valley... Until then, I was feeling pretty good and ready to keep going. That is where the gravel roads start and most of the climb too (up to 1,600mts at the top I think, bit higher than Banff). It was a nice climb, then down into some muddy sections where Kate found a nice frozen line to ride, but it wasn't as long. Finally we got to what I call my nemesis (the intersection with hw...