IFSC World Cup, Canmore 2011: Warming Up

The snow greeting the competitors in Canmore.

As most of you know, last week was the World Cup in Canmore, Alberta, and I was able to go as a guest photographer. It was so much fun to get to walk around, see all the athletes from up close and be allowed (actually required!) to take photos while they were warming up or just chillin’ at the back! The weather was all over the place. We pretty much had four seasons in one weekend: snow, rain, sun, cold, and hot. That didn’t stop the competition from being awesome! Here are a few of my favourite warm up photos, while I get the competition photos ready for the site.

Comme plusieurs d’entre vous le savez déjà, je suis allé à la compétition World Cup
à Canmore (Alberta) la semaine passée en tant que photographe invité. C’était vraiment génial de pouvoir marcher n’importe où et de prendre des photos des athletes et des préparatifs. La température était vraiment spéciale: pluie, neige, froid, chaud, soleil, nuage, etc. Nous avons vraiment eu le droit à quatres saisons en une fin de semaine! Voici quelques-unes de mes photos préférées des préparatifs, pendant que je continue à préparer mes photos de la compétition (presque fini!).

* click an image for larger size (cliqué sur une image pour la voir en grand format).

The GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon 2011

So, as some of you may know, I’ve started to enjoy running. Like anything else in my life, once I start to be interested in something, I tend to start to take photos of it a lot more. So, don’t be surprised to see many more posts about running in my new category cleverly entitled Running.

This weekend, on May 15th, was the 37th GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon. I was lucky enough to watch the men’s winner coming in before i had to go (and before it was too wet for us to handle!). You can get the full results here.

Comme certain d’entre vous savez déjà, j’ai développé une passion pour la course dans les dernier mois. Et comme toute autre chose dans ma vie, lorsque je commence à m’interesser à quelque chose, je tends à prendre beaucoups de photos de cette chose! Ne soyez donc pas surpris si vous commencez à voir plus de photos de courses dans ma nouvelle catégorie: Running.

Ce weekend, le 15 Mai, était le 37ième Marathon GoodLife Fitness de Toronto. J’ai été chanceux de pouvoir voir le gagnant arrivé à la fin (ainsi que le deuxième!) avant de devoir partir (et avant que la température soit vraiment trop moche!). Vous pouvez aussi voir tous les résultats içi.

Men’s Marathon Top 3:

  1. Branden Kenny (2:27:20)
  2. Josephat Ongeri (2:29:19)
  3. Terry Gehl (2:30:49)

Women’s Marathon Top 3:

  1. Melissa Begin (2:54:51)
  2. Nathalie Goyer (2:58:20)
  3. Katrina Cripps (3:00:34)

Tour de Bloc 7: Climber’s Rock, Ontario

I just posted a new entry with some more photos of the final problems. It’s all part of my new Photo Monday segment. Also, note that you can receive updates from this blog at any time by simply joining the mailing list in the right sidebar.

The first stop to season 7 of Tour de Bloc was held at Climber’s Rock. After only being open for a little more than one year, Climber’s Rock, of Burlington Ontario, is already positioning themselves as one of the best Tour de Bloc venues in the Eastern division. The gym has lots of space, and the organizers put in a lot of effort in. This year was another great example of a fun comp. Lots of good problems, a very good turn up in all divisions, and lots of great ambiance! Even though i overheard that the music was a little intense all day long… aanndd … there were two very important female competitors missing. wink. wink.;) Anyways, in all seriousness, the seventh season of the Tour de Bloc promises to be very good!!

I’m still working on the photos from the finals (check them out at my next photo monday!), but I wanted to share some shots I managed to take at the qualifying round. I was just walking around and took a couple of snapshots (see flickr for some extra shots). Excuse the intense post-processing, but that’s what you get when you have to crank the ISO all the way up to 1000… In any case, I find it gives a pretty cool effect (For more info, check out Scott Kelby’s post). Let me know if you dig or not!

Sebas stuck the dyno!
Sebas stuck the dyno! The croud went wild!!

Max worked hard on the top problems
Max worked hard on the top problems

Getting ready for the finals!
Getting ready for the finals!

Don’t forget, next Monday I will share my favorite shots from the finals. Stay tuned!
Oh, yeah, the results!

Women’s Open

  1. Nicole Ko
  2. Marine Cusa
  3. Shauna Post
  4. Leslie Allin
  5. Jany Mitges
  6. Ivona Rukscinski

Men’s Open

  1. Tash Zielinski
  2. Eric Sethna
  3. Sebastien Lazure
  4. Stephen Tambling
  5. Ayo Sopeju
  6. Dustin Kerr
  7. Keith Mackay
  8. Dustin Curtis

Busy night in Toronto

Every now and then, a huge mass of suburbanites invade our neighborhood for a whole bunch of parties, games, or shows. Tonight was especially weird because of the mixture of the different people in the crowd. The somewhat more sophisticated crowd going to see the Divine Performing Arts, the young (and old frankly) full of energy crowd going at the Rogers Center for the AC/DC concert, and finally the young sporty people going to watch the Raptors kill the Grizzlies at the Air Canada Center. Anyways, it was pretty interesting to see the crazy mix of people downtown tonight. It was kind of a free for all in the LCBO at union station. yikes.

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