Posted in Uncategorized on 21 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eleven-minute interview with Nathan Hoover and Andy Cotter:
Here, renowned unicyclists Nathan Hoover and Andy Cotter introduce listeners to “Ride The Lobster” in PART III of a three-part interview. In PART I they introduced the world of unicycling. In Part II they talked about long distance unicycling.
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Posted in Uncategorized on 19 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fuera del azul, dos unicyclists españoles han venido adelante calificar para la raza, “Ride The Lobster”.
Out of the blue, two Spanish unicyclists have come forth and shocked organizers to qualify for “Ride The Lobster”.
Alberto Alvarez and Edgar Escuer are both from Barcelona, Spain. As information arrives in Nova Scotia, we will let you know more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Digital cartographer Todd Banks, of the Centre for Geographic Sciences (COGS), continues his work on creating interactive maps of the 800km event route of Ride The Lobster for riders and spectators/media. Shown here is a portion of Stage 2, the Valley-Lighthouse Stage. Yellow tick marks are space every 10km along the red-highlighted route. Below, one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ten-minute interview with Nathan Hoover and Andy Cotter:
Download PART II “Long Distance Unicycling”
Here, renowned unicyclists Nathan Hoover and Andy Cotter introduce listeners to unicycling in PART II of a three-part interview. In PART I they introduce unicycling. In Part III they talk about the 800km international race, Ride The Lobster.
Posted in Uncategorized on 8 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) digital cartographer, Todd Banks, has prepared a route profile along the 800km length of Ride The Lobster. The profiles are preliminary. Profiles are available for four of the five Stages: Annapolis, Valley-Lighthouse, Time Trials/Criterium (not posted), Glooscap-Sunrise, and Cape Breton. The 200km Stage profiles were created from a detailed digital [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 7 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eleven-minute interview with Nathan Hoover and Andy Cotter:
Download PART I “The world of unicycling”
Here, renowned unicyclists Nathan Hoover and Andy Cotter introduce listeners to unicycling in PART I of a three-part interview. In PART II they focus on long-distance unicycling. In Part III they talk about the 800km race, Ride The Lobster.
Posted in Uncategorized on 3 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Daily Gleaner newspaper reports that Todd Legere of Fredericton New Brunswick, Canada, is preparing for the 800km 5-day unicycle race set for Nova Scotia 16-20 June this summer.
The paper states that “Legere thinks he’ll be the only East Coast unicyclist participating and he’s optimistic that will allow the region to get behind his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 3 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coverage on page three of the Nottingham Evening News describes Joe Marshall’s and Spencer Owen’s attempt to qualify for the 800km 5-day Ride the Lobster challenge this 16-20 June in Nova Scotia, Canada. The paper quotes Joe, “The hardest thing about Ride the Lobster is probably going to be going up against the fastest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 3 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally. Roland Perry and SteveYo found a two-day window of opportunity between this season’s blizzards and snowstorms to qualify for Ride The Lobster, the 800km 5-day race set for 16-20 June in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Winter has not been kind.
On the Friday evening before the ride several centimetres of snow fell. Roland [...]
