Gary Robbins

  • How’s This For A Blog Post

    I wish I had more time to blog but I can’t believe how busy I have been this week!Skate skied in The Callahan for 2hr today and saw numbers on my heart rate monitor that I didn’t know existed! 6am road ride tomorrow and then a commute to North Van for work. I figure the… →

  • This Is Pretty Crazy

    VANCOUVER – The founder of fashion company Lululemon says he will start an annual mile-long uphill race in Vancouver that he hopes will raise $1.5 million for B.C. Children’s Hospital over the first three years. Chip Wilson told a crowd of people today at Children’s Hospital that the race will be run every June 20… →

  • Fighting Back, 100km At A Time

    I could not take it anymore, on Monday I got up at 6am, only to cancel out on my friend Jen’s offer of an A.M. road bike ride. On Tuesday I was up at 5am and cancelled out on our weekly morning ski tour. I hadn’t move in two days and felt like I was… →

  • Rudy Project Gear Review

    I just recieved my new Rudy’s for 08, the Ekynox and I was stoked to get outside and try these babies out! I headed up to The Callahan Valley for some skate ski lessons with my good buddy Munro. Munny was very patient with me and eventually I was able to get a full sweat… →

  • I Wanna Run!!

    What’s it been, all of three or four days since I’ve determined that I can’t run…well it’s been over a month that I’ve known I should have been dealing with this, but three days since I’ve actually decided to do something about it! Anyways, today I was the ‘Event Host’ (kinda like Race Director but… →

  • Dealing With Injuries

    Yesterday morning I was out with my good buddy Aaron Heidt and we were shredding 20cm of fresh snow at 7:30am! We glanced back over our lines intermittently to see how perfect they were. The ‘left – right – left’ pattern was completely balanced and symetrical for hundreds of meters at a time, and it… →

  • Pre Work Ski Touring

    http://youtube.com/v/SoqXlikMHSY A short video of Roxy and I ski touring before work. →

  • The Wellness Show & The Yeti Snowshoe Race

    Working backwards from tonight, I had what I would consider to be a very successful presentation at the Vancouver Health and Wellness Show this morning, topped off by a surprise visit by a good friend from Banff who I have not seen in six full years!! Saturday was The Yeti Mt. Seymour race and I… →

  • Vancouver Wellness Show

    Looking to kill about fourty minutes at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow morning? If so then head on down to The Vancouver Health and Wellness Show and check out my presentation on the 130km West Coast Trail – Juan De Fuca Trail run that I completed in August of 2007. The Vancouver Wellness Show is the largest… →

  • What A Weekend!

    I’m still kinda reeling from it all, but I think it went down like this: Friday night: I knew the snow was on its way and although the temps were again near freezing, the thought of sitting on a bike trainer all week was all the fuel I needed get my ass out the door… →