Results: Farm Dog TT#1

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A big congrats to everyone that made it out to the first Farm Dog Time Trial of the season last night! Cyclists (or at least this one) are a lot like Farmers – the weather is never quite good enough, but we get out there and do our thing anyways. Big, cold west winds (~25km/h)

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It’s that time again!! Farm Dog Time Trials

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Is there a word for something to you simultaneously look forward to and dread? If there is any benefit to training on exclusively flat terrain, this is it.   The Farm Dog Time Trials will return for 2013 - the first Tuesday of each month, beginning April 2nd, 2013. TTs begin at 6:30 PM sharp from the top of the

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last chance summer!

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Kicking off the last official week of summer with a rainy day Monday. I’m making soup and dreading heading off to my office job next week. I’ll have to wear shoes – and PANTS – for the first time in months! There is LOTS going on in the next few weeks – on the bikes

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Dog Days

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I don’t know if you’re counting too, but we ticked past the halfway mark of August this week. The forecast for the next two weeks would cause any weatherman extreme jealousy 25, 25, 26, 25, 23, 24, 25….you get the picture. Sunny skies and smooth sailing, and we earned it this summer. Dog days, indeed.

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What’s New on the Farm?

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We are full-speed ahead into the LAST WEEKEND OF JULY! July always seems like real summer to me, by August the novelty of heat is over; and it just doesn’t feel like summer when it drops all the way below 20C at night! Despite my season imbalances, there is plenty of Summer left, and this

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Building a Community

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This weekend, 2 rusty Farm Dogs picked up their bikes, found the muddiest trails they could, a few friends, a proceeded to bash themselves back into racing shape. The Paris 2 Ancaster is Ontario’s amateur answer to Europe’s Pro Spring Classics. 60 km of grueling dirt, muck, sand, puddles, rail trail, potholes, washboarded country roads,

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