For my birthday this year, my wife Kim had a cake made by our friend Tracy Cook here in Nanaimo. She managed to create my WordPress 24-Hour Trainer book, my 100 Questions to Ask Before Building a Website book, and my MacBook – all in a single cake!
Thanks Tracy, thanks Kim!

Now that I’m able to walk again – literally – it’s time to put to pen and paper what happened on Saturday September 17, 2011.
It was the 10th Annual Great Lake Walk around Cowichan Lake here on Vancouver Island. At 5am, about 325 brave souls (650 soles) set off in the darkness to circumnavigate what [...]

By a happy accident, I’ve figured out how to avoid those pesky washroom breaks so I won’t get slowed down on my walk. May have to patent this “Walk N Go” system. Trick now is not to confuse it with the tube for my drinking water.

I’ve been doing about 10k per day for several days now – 5k in each direction with an hour’s break between. Thought I wasn’t doing too badly, until today when I did almost 17k straight.
I see now why the Great Lake Walk organizers have rest stops every 4k or so.  Just a short time to [...]

If you’d like to sponsor me on my walk, you can donate online through my gift page.Thanks!
Well, I decided at the last minute to enter a 56K marathon walk on September 17th. I’ve been walking since I was baby, so it only natural that I should… did I say 56K? That’s hardly anything at all [...]

I was watching the Triplets of Belleville and there was a sequence that reminded me of The Great Lake Walk – a 56K marathon walk I did around Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
The grandson in the movie is training furiously for the Tour de France and we see him struggling up this impossibly steep city [...]

Got into the van at 1:30am to drive down to The Great Lake Walk. Found these drawings from the girls on the seat:

While listening to the radio on yesterday’s training walk I discovered my “natural frequency” song – Get It On (Bang a Gong) by T Rex. The beat exactly matched the rhythm of my walk and there was something about the congruence that made the walk a little easier.
Now debating whether looping the song for 12 [...]

Since I’ve never been to Cowichan Lake before, I thought I’d visit my nemesis. It’s set in a beautiful valley and looks gorgeous – too bad it’s so large or this 56k walk might have been, say, a 10k event…
The day was nice and sunny and warm, and if it’s like this during the walk [...]

So it was garbage day today and the truck had just picked up. I’m out there in my pajamas getting the garbage cans off the road when I hear a car go by.  We’re on a really quiet street (and I’m snoopy) so I turned to see who it was. I got Googled! It was [...]