meet Delaney Rebecca
… Now lets talk about ME.
Rick McCharles has had an unusual training plan over the winter. Nine months of inactivity, bordering on coma.
This is an innovative strategy that would baffle even regeneration / recovery expert Dr. Bill Sands.
I call it hypo-negative-supra-minus-compensation. It’s the same tactic used by aspiring Everest mountaineers [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘humour’
June 2, 2009
Dave and Lisa had a baby!
April 22, 2009
I’ve decided that it MAY be possible to overdo it…
Hi, everyone!!
I hope everyone is enjoying the fact that Spring has finally (cross your fingers!) sprung, and is getting in some good training… we certainly have over the past 10 days or so!
Backing up a week and a half to Friday April 10, I was out with Keith doing some training… first, a bit of [...]
January 20, 2009
Pleasantly Lost…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at “Adventure Sports Week Central!
Note the new name… we put in a bid for “AdventureWeek.com,” and found out that for only $15,000 it could be ours… thus, after several milliseconds of thoughtful deliberation, we decided that another choice would have to do for our new, updated website.
The [...]
January 6, 2009
Adlard wins 543mi Ultramarathon
Oops.
Seems it was a 61 Year-Old Farmer, not Dave.
In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61 year-old farmer, showed up to race Australia’s toughest endurance race – 543.7 miles from Sydney to Melbourne – in overalls and work boots. …
Not only did he run it, but he won it and set a new record for [...]
January 5, 2009
How a photo, a mirror, some friends and a vacation rental can change your life.
Imagine… Hawaii for our anniversary getaway, in a beautiful rental home… Our business was successful(ish), and we were pretty fit(ish), dazzling examples of humanity… life was good!
Then, on Sunday, reality came calling.
First, my beautiful wife photographed me on the beach. I looked, I dropped the camera in horror. No way did I look that bad! [...]
December 29, 2008
Dave’s birthday present …
Because of his new philosophy of voluntary imposed simplicity, I thought I’d get something for Dave that combines his love of Adventurexercise with his passion for household chores.
December 28, 2008
Great Snow Training to “welcome” Winter…
Hi ho!
December 27th… after a marvelous fall, it’s been snowing for 10 straight days… 5 feet… help! Glub, glub… record 24 hour snowfall, record 5 day… send St. Bernard!
Yup. After no snow until basically 10 days ago, I’m rapidly running out of room to pile the snow. At least until today, it had been cold [...]
April 1, 2008
World’s Weirdest Footraces
In case Dave needs even MORE challenges …
World’s Weirdest Footraces – Gear Junkie
(via Adventure Blog)
March 5, 2008
old FART
And I thought I was old. …
Buster Martin is just like us – he’s training to run the London Marathon on April 13th. Only Buster is 101 years old!
101 Year-Old Man to Run London Marathon
