I have been trying to spend as much training time in WiTHiN as I can. I think this is important psychological training for me. I need to get very comfortable with a 14 to 16 hour shift sitting in the recumbent seat and pedaling the day(s) away. I will slowly build up to two, 14 [...]
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It is one of my goals to make the crossing as fast as I can, and my target is 50 to 70 days. A record time (fastest average speed for a human-powered passage) will be a testament to the creators of WiTHiN – designed by Stuart Bloomfield and Rick Willoughby and their ncredible workmanship by my builder Ken Fortney.
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As if I don’t have enough on my plate these days! So I just had to go and do yet another redesign on the Adventuresofgreg.com blog. I was having problems with the old blogger.com blog, so I switched over to WordPress a few weeks ago. After I had the entire blog ported over, I still [...]
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. Thomas Edison
I am thinking about an early July departure from Tofino, so that puts me at about 8 months away. Not much time really. I’ve also been thinking (a lot) about what I can do to ensure that this departure is successful. I [...]
I just finished uploading 3 new videos: the story of our Vancouver Island sea trials from a couple of weeks ago which is a two-part YouTube video, and a highlights video which is about 4 minutes of footage of WiTHiN in the water for those of you who want to get right to the boat [...]
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I’m back from our Vancouver Island sea trials now. Our shake-down cruise was unfortunately abbreviated, but was great while it lasted. We saw seals, dolphins, jelly fish, and were making great speed and everything was going as planned. Then we had a sudden drive leg failure, almost ran into a ferry, dealt with the [...]
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I picked Jordan up from the airport on Friday night and we headed directly to the bar for dinner and a couple of beers. He’s a great guy and we get along very well. That is a good thing when two strangers are about to be locked into a 20 foot x 3 foot capsule [...]
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My name is Jordan, and I’m guest blogging for Greg because he invited me to help him shake down WiTHiN around Vancouver Island. I am not given to making baseball analogies, however, I do think the best term to define how I came to meet Greg and be included in the Vancouver Island circumnavigation in [...]
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My 2008 human powered boat record makes it into the 2010 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records
When we were in Whitefish, MT last weekend picking up some VI circumnavigation supplies at Target, we noticed they had the new 2010 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records in stock. I knew that they [...]
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Here is the schedule and contact info for the next few weeks. If you are able to make it out to any of the media events, lake trials or the Vancouver Island circumnavigation stops, then please let me know – we would be happy to see you!
Our email on WiTHiN via satellite phone (don’t send [...]
Read More...“My objective is to demonstrate the amazing things a human being can do under his
or her own power. I hope to motivate and inspire more people to explore their own
human-powered potential. It’s good for the environment, it’s essential for our health,
and sends the right message regarding physical activity to our children.”
If I seem a bit reoccupied with form over function these days, I’m not
really. Ken and I are working our butts off here trying to get the
boat ready for Vancouver island circumnavigation and choosing a paint
color, boat name and logo is all part of what needs to be done and it
is important to me. Make [...]
Well – here she is all freshly painted. FINALLY. Ken and I hauled the boat to U-wrench in Calgary where we rented their paint booth for a few hours. Typical of the kind of good luck that seems to follow this project around, when Ken was in the auto body supply shop asking questions about [...]
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RAAM is a 2921.7 mile, coast-to-coast ultra marathon cycling race. First run in 1982, 2010 is the 29th year of the race. For a week+, contending solo cyclists pedal an average of 350 miles per day, while sleeping as little as 1 hour per night. Burning 8,000 to 10,000 or more calories per day, racers [...]
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This idea is still very much in concept stage and there are no blog posts yet. I have an ocean to cross, a human powered airplane to build and a hundred miles to run before I can start to think seriously about Greenland’s ice cap. However, below are some concepts that have been discussed.
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I’ve been working with human powered airplane designer Nick Hein and we’ve been going back and fourth on some pretty cool ideas for a human powered airplane design. Some look pretty logical and some ideas (well, some of MY ideas) are down right nuts. But, this is a starting point – sort of just brain [...]
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Human Powered Flight
I’m not sure exactly what direction I want to pursue with this project. I have a few options. There are a few designs that are being considered and these will need to be built in-house from scratch (a huge job!). Another option is to bring a HPA over from Germany. Velair was built [...]
a much bigger goal on my horizon: A Human Powered Flight record. Here are a few ideas I’ve been playing around with:
Any ideas, suggestions, hints, thoughts, questions about HPA’s – let me have’em. I’m not sure exactly what kind of record, or what kind of human powered airplane this would be – or even if [...]
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My finishing time was 10:54 and I came in 33rd out of 296 in my division. The last Ironman World Championships qualifying slot went to 10:38, so I was about 16 minutes too slow.
This was Ironman Canada’s 25th anniversary and to celebrate, they invited just over 2700 athletes to join in the fun this year [...]
New World Record!!! Greg Kolodziejzyk pedals 173.76 km in 24 hours in his human powered boat setting a new HPVA record.
Here are the live updates from the 24 hour human powered boat record attempt at Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary, Alberta on June 2, 2007.
————————————————————–10:45 amHello from the lake!
Hey everybody, Greg here.
It’s about 10:45 am, an [...]
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