2010, Orbea!

2009, is behind now! thank you Team TBB, alex, brett and everyone on the team for everything you guys did for me, amazing experience even if the results werent there for me. I will remember thos Ok e amazing camp in the philippines and the silly workouts around the track.... the almost marathon!, and riding those silly hills for ever

And thank you to cervelo, a company that i rode with in 2005 2006 2008 2009. Amazing people, lots of passions and great bikes..... thank you gerard, betsy, chris etc for everything. It s been a awesome time for me, just wish i had rode those bike faster!

We are only a few hours away from 2010. I m at 34 000 feet in the air on my way back to penticton to celebrate the new year with all my friends! Penticton as become a very special place for me over the years. I have made many friends, that i would even call family. I even impose myself to many of them by living at there places for years!!!! and showing up at all there places for dinners, and having the grand parents feeding me all those homemade meal, scones etc!!!

There is many times in someone career when you hit some very rough patch. The last 6 months have been like that for me with those nasty injury. It s honestly been hell on earth. But it s in those hard time that some special individual come up and offer to give you a hand and help you out. And it seems like it s always the same people that are there year after years........ I think it s a wise idea to associate myself with those.....2010 will be all about that for me.

-I m now living full time in penticton and even braving the canadian winter. Missing Danny and Misha a lot!!! and missing the warmer desert also!!!

-I m working to get back on both legs. I took a very short reflection (about 5h on my bike in australia) to come to the conclusion that i need some special guidance. I m back with the hardest coach that i know in the buisness, Paulo Sousa. No talking necessary, results do the speaking in this departement.

-I will still be a TBB athlete.... but this time, it s THE BIKE BARN...... :) Those people (Will, Chris, Lisa and everyone)have been my family, roomates, supporter over the past few years and my blue and yellow uniform is the coolest one there is !!!!!! I will try to rock it again a few times!

-2010 see a new challenge for me! PODIUM IMPORTS! In 2007, after been left by a sponsor with a broken bike 4 weeks out of ironman canada, i had Brian McCoy of Orbea Canada (www.podiumimports.ca) jumped in and with in 48h, i was now equipe with a cool Orbea bike. I had the greatest race of my life on that bike. Hey, even rode only 90 sec slower than monster Jordan Rapp on 180km!!! I have developpe a love story with my super blue orbea Oreo bike and it s time for me to be back on that bike!!!!

In 2010, with a new cool paint job, the ORBEA OREO is ready to rock....i just need to start back where i left in 2007!

But even more, i will be working with Brian as the canadian distributor of ORBEA, ORCA, REYNOLDS, GARMIN, ARUNDEL, TRISWIM and a few more lines! I will now be involved directly with those company as a athlete and distributor in canada and looking forward to learn more about this side of the buisness! I have always wanted to be involved directly with my sponsors and the triathlon community and i do beleive 2010 will be even more true than ever!

My plane is on the final approche for penticton airport, time to put the computer back in the bag, run to my house to change and make it to the new year party......VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO 2010.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!!

PS: Tom, last year, i was polite to you as your a elder....but be nice is over in 2010, i m learning to sprint this winter ;)

Thank you to team TBB

The season 2009 is coming to a end. Lets make a short and accurate review of the year

I got 4 triathlon in me.

-DNF ironman australia
-slow time at wildflower
-Win at the oliver olympic distance
-2nd place and bike course record at Oliver half ironman
and follow by 6 months of injury to my hip and knee

It s now the holiday season, we are coming on the new year and a few changes will come with it.

I would like to take the time to say a big thank you to Team TBB for taking me on board and supporting me this season. It s not secret that they took a risk in taking me after a lot of sickness and injury in the past year and that it asnt pay off for them. But i do have to say it as been a incredible experience to be part of the team and take part in our training camp in the philippines. The group of athlete is simply amazing, hard workers and driven individuals.

The 2 months in subic bay living with Zach and scott, and working with Brett sutton have been a lot of fun and hard work. Brett is definitly passionate about his work and it s been a pleasure to work with him. As for our manager Alex, he as had this vision of creating a team that would have a high performance dedication with also a social project attach to it. He as been working very hard at it and some amazing things have come up from it.

I have to say, i feel really lucky to be part of the team for the 2009 season.

What s next?! Well, my body as still not been giving me the green light to get back to my full routine. it s very frustrating but i do have to stick to it and keep working at it.

I will not be back with team TBB in 2010 but it dosn't mean there wont be any link with them in the future...:) some changes are obviously needed for me. I will have to face the music and be very honest with myself....there is a lot of work ahead of me....


More news on January first.................

wish you all a merry christmas!!!

congrat jordan!!!!! 8h13!!!!!!

from jordan

"it's about the process. It doesn't matter what you do tomorrow and it doesn't matter what you did yesterday. It's about today, and making today count. That's especially true in training, but that same mentality that I carry to racing. Focus on the task at hand, not on the finish line, or the next part of the race, but what it is that is right there in front of you at that moment."

the day after the storm!!!!!!

Well, it s been on big storm! Things flying around....a real hurricain and when i woke up, this is what penticton look like this morning!!!




It s also been a bit of a storm on other area! My blog account as been the victim of a higjack tentative that failed because of my super secret code. 54321! I also have a new fan on my blog that logged 36 times in the past 50h!!! He must really like my blog! And thank you for all the nice message from everyone!

Well, Doctor Tom evans and me went x country skiing this week. A first time ever for us to ski together. I did help him a bit with his technic and ski behind him so i could have a better look at his technic! I m looking forward to see how fit i can get on those skis as there is a fun racing season coming up starting in janurary!

ok, more silly and positive stuff coming up soon...

well....i got a hate mail!

I have to say, that one is surprising.... he sure put me back at my place..... oh...and mark... i still havent won a ironman. I m even worst than you might have think.....

anyone else want to send me a hate mail???

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Mark Gingrich has left a new comment on your post "HTFU.....":

I think you are a complete douche bag Jonnyo. I think you're an idiot for posting what you did, feel extremely sorry that you felt the need to post something like this.

I could honestly care less what you think of me, my company, etc. Your post actually gave me a nice boost in web traffic. Please continue to shell out blasphemy...I love it!

Yes, we will meet soon. And yes, you will do and say absolutely nothing. You're a tiny little nobody that doesn't have anything else to do but complain and whine about things you cannot accomplish or something you think you created. You and Paulo created nothing. To say you did is a complete farce and I find it comical.

To be honest...you and the little wannabe's that were picked on in high school, have no social life, backbone, etc. will accomplish nothing and fade into oblivion having no impact on life or the sport in which you think you represent.

Best of luck. Here's to being a C level triathlete who's only accomplishment will be winning one Ironman which no real talent attended....lol.

How's that for hiding behind an anonymous tag. Fuck You! And for what it's worth bud... I'll say that too your face when I see you ;-)


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winter...winter...winter

that s the new reality for me..... training in altitude....ski ski ski and ski....

HTFU.....

i m considering start a company of Markers...... Black permanent markers. Those would be certified markers that could be use to make letters HTFU on your clothing only when you really know you deserve it! Why this idea, well,

this guy, Mark Gingrich started HTFU.com. I have no problem with it. I dont necessarly agree or support it but that stop there. I just voice my opinion in a respectfull maner on slowtwitch!

Well, this Mark guy, under a anonymous name of HTFU.com came to slowtwitch to insult me and call me name. That show class, guts, and confidence to do such thing. Well, he also said he would sued everyone that call him by his name and bla bla bal. Well, i m canadian and there is no law suit in canada... so

Mark Gingrich, we will meet at some races...should be fun! You could have simply in a respectfull maner disagree with me and go on your venture and persue..but you went ahead and had to insult, and try to bring someone down under anonymous name..

Now, you want to bet i can sell more markers than you sell HTFU clothing? ;)




I think i could sell those for about 10$ + shipping. My cost is about 4$...so 6$ of profit on each..... all the profit will go to something like maybe getting one more bike in jordan's charity mission or something else that would be good!

Now, what is so awesome about my system is, you can make, blue HTFU using the blue marker, you can make green one using the green marker or red one using the ....well, you get the point! You can probably make 100 shirt or 1000 visor!

ok....go!