Louis Garneau Sample Sale

Just in time for Summer - huge Sample Sale!

Saturday, June 25

10:00am to 4:00pm

Granville Island Hotel

Lots of gear and great deals for all of your fitness needs.

What: Everything from Running to Biking, Outdoor, Lifestyle
Saucony running, fitness, & yoga apparel & accessories
Louis Garneau bike apparel, hard goods & accessories

CASH ONLY

SUGOI Spring Factory Sale

Sample Sale - May 7th

Samples Sale
May 7, 2011
9am - 6pm
Granville Island
Vancouver, BC
CASH ONLY
Outdoor apparel, sleeping bags, packs and accessories
Get stocked up for the summer!

not your fault (Good Will Hunting)

The other day I was at Winners (emotionally shopping) and I stumbled across the "Good Will Hunting" DVD which was on sale for $5.99. I realized that this is one of my favorite movies and I didn't own it.

Its a fantastic film, I recommend you watch it sometime soon.

While I was watching it tonight I became very emotional (which doesn't usually happen to me in movies) but this scene truly touch me. I think its because of my car accident - without going into too much details I guess I've been feeling a heavy weight on my shoulders; that people expect that I should be healed by now (it take time), that my time off work was a "holiday" (hells no work is 1000 times better than what I've been going through), that in some how the accident was my fault (which it 100% was not), financially I've been feeling stressed due to all the extra incurred costs of treatment, I could keep going but thats not the point - just wanted to share something that inspired me/and lifted my spirit a little bit in the hope that it might help someone else. I realize its a completely different situation but it is completely relatable for me.

NEVER take your foot of the gas.

Top Albums of 2010

Recently I was asked to contribute to my friend Rob's blog. He wanted to help introduce his readers to some new music - click here for the post - he got 8 friends together and tasked us to compile a list of our top 5 albums from 2010.

It was during my research for this post that I discovered I have way more than 5 albums from 2010 that I love - 17 actually. So feeling inspired by Rob I bring you my list of the top 17 albums from 2010.

*Each band name links you to their myspace page and I've embedded a grooveshark player to the bottom of this post which contains 3 or 4 of my favourite songs from each album that you can listen to straight from my blog.

1. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
2. The National - High Violet
3. Delorean - Subiza
4. Mumford and Sons - Sign No More
5. Caribou - Swim
6. Angus and Julia Stone - Down the way
7. Beach House - Teen Dream
8. Ra Ra Riot - Orchard
9. Wintersleep - New Inheritors
10. Cary Brothers - Under Control
11. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms 
12. Birds of Tokyo - Birds of Tokyo
13. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
14. Morgan Page - Believe 
15. LCD Soundsystem - This is happening
16. The Black Keys - Brothers
17. Yeasayer - Odd Blood

~Happy Listening

Ringing in the new year

Happy New Year! 

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to spend the last day of 2010 with two of the most important people in my life my "little" brothers. I took them to enjoy a little taste of my everyday, the North Shore mountains. After gearing up in our luon and lending some running tights to my wee bro we hiked up the BCMC.  It was an absolutely gorgeous sunny day.

I am so proud of Kolton (he's 14) for coming along and powering up - he even ran up the last bit to ensure he'd "beat" me - you know according to him I'm middle at the ripe age of 27 so of course he had to beat me.

Some of my favourite pics from the day~ 

mid-hike photo shoot

taking a pic of yourself on the iPhone is tough! But we managed this one ;)  Also note my favourite clothing purchasing of the season is this ear warmer from Lululemon I've worn it hiking, running, snowshoeing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing already.

he's so hard core

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