Powered by Max Banner Ads A second rider has tested positive for the blood doping drug, EPO at this year’s Tour de France. I’m glad I have not wasted my time with this year’s race. This time the racer is Moises Duenas Nevado with the Barloworld team. Additionally, the French police found additional [...]

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 Powered by Max Banner Ads I haven’t watched a single Tour de France stage since Floyd Landis “won” in 2006, in spite of watching religiously the prior 7 years. I really lost interest after the initial doping charge against Floyd and all the subsequent riders implicated in the 2006 blood doping scandal. It sucks [...]

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Going back to my post on the Disney Endurance Series of endurance fitness events, this weekend features a two-for-one weekend at the Walt Disney World Resort with the Danskin Sprint Triathlon and the Muddy Buddy. I really wanted to give the Muddy Buddy a shot this year, but it was sold out before I [...]

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White Lake Sprint Race Report:

May 4, 2008
White Lake, North Carolina

750 meter swim/ 14mile bike/ 3mile run

The White Lake, North Carolina race weekend is one of the most popular race weekends in the NCTS series. Set-up does a Half-Ironman on Saturday and a Sprint on Sunday. Each day they have a full field [...]

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According to the Outside Magazine blog, Trek has filed a motion in Federal court to end their relationship with Greg LeMond and LeMond Cycles. I say it’s about damn time. LeMond has been spouting off for years about Lance Armstrong and the rest of Trek’s team doping in the Tour de France. [...]

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I just got this great new toy called a Flip video camera. This thing is about the size of a video iPod and fits in the mp3 player pocket of my MULE Camelbak! The video quality is great for a small, $100-$150 camera. It takes up to 60 minutes of TV-quality digital [...]

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You may have noticed that I’ve added a new sign-up form in the right sidebar for a newsletter.  This is the Gator Outdoor and Travel Newsletter that we will be sending out periodically with fitness tips, outdoors news, adventure travel, camping tips, and on and on.  Just for signing up, you get a free camping [...]

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Here’s hoping everyone has a Happy Easter and gets outside to enjoy the spring weather (whatever it may be)!
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Check out this cool ad.
This was done by Transport for London. It looks like they will be adding to this advertising campaign and have other ones for pedestrians, motorcycles, young drivers, and teens. Some seem to be a bit morbid, but this one is definitely interesting. You can check for updates here.
This [...]

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Persistence is quality that all outdoors enthusiasts must have to accomplish many of the outdoor activities we love. Giving up a mountain bike race just because of a flat tire or front brake failure is just not part of our make-up. I’ve seen people carrying a bike through the finish gates, rather than [...]

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