2018: Day 5 Normally after the craziness of December, you get to relax and slow down in January (well in between starting diets and going back to the gym). This January was anything but relaxing for us. Joel was busy with viticulture school and travelling back to Vancouver on weekends, while I had most of … [Read more…]
2018: Day 4 Kona!! To some of you, the word is a place – a pretty awesome place with sun, sand, fruity cocktails and volcanoes. You wouldn’t be wrong. But to many of us “Kona” means the Ironman World Championships which is held every October in Kona, Hawaii. It’s just called ‘Kona’ for short. Mention … [Read more…]
2017: Day 3 2017. What happened to you? You showed such promise! We started with a beautiful polar bear swim then everything seemed to go downhill. I know – I get it. You were completely dominated by the Orange Anus against your will. This is where I spend the next few paragraphs ranting like a … [Read more…]
2016: Day 1 2016. WTF? (pretend these are really big letters). Seriously – what gives? You were looking so promising only one short year ago. Let’s rewind the clock 12 months. If anyone told me that within a year Great Britain would divorce Europe, and that America would elect a president to build a Berlin-style … [Read more…]
Continuing with our tradition of celebrating people and events this past year, Day 5 of our 12 Days of Drinking we celebrate a rather remarkable achievement by local hero (and legend in the making) Jeff Symonds. What he did in Kona was our pick for top triathlon story in 2015. For those unfamiliar with the sport, … [Read more…]