Race registration

Registering for an event signals the first, often irreversible, commitment. Training has to pick up. The date is set, fees are paid. You’re in. Doubts may linger, but you’re in. It’s pretty straightforward.
A business venture becomes official with registration, but this in itself can be a time consuming [...]

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Best day ever

I’m a bit of a stats junkie. And though it’s important to analyze patterns, labeling is critical. For example, DataPath recently reported that 40% of decided women voters supported Dennis Fentie’s Yukon Party. Another label on exactly the same data would say that only 25% of Yukon women polled supported Dennis Fentie.
WordPress generates [...]

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Construction detour

This past year, with virtually no fresh posts, blogrush continued to rack up the hits. BoldRush’s blog stayed number one on Google images for “snow load” snapping to the photo attached to our post “Energy wanes under snow load“. Searchers also came to the blogrush site via assorted combinations of snow, cabin, lake, [...]

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Hitting the wall

BoldRush protein juice was a remarkable discovery. It was shelf-stable and made from real fruit and vegetables. It contained 10 grams of protein and worked extremely well to support endurance and recovery before, during and after grueling athletic events. It substituted for food, tasted good, and was not-too-sweet. Kids weren’t crazy about it, but there [...]

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Exploring the margins

Now don’t get me wrong, we are down, but we are NOT out.
It’s just that I’m introspecting….
Inventory, project reporting, year-end, spring-cleaning, ruthless assessments and evaluation — various forms of self-examination further just about everything.  An objective eye is required and hard questions need answers.
The glorious vision of BoldRush isn’t the hard part … I looked [...]

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The business trail

Even at the beginning– we knew it would be tough. We just didn’t know how tough. Followers of the great BoldRush business adventure will recall times we lost the trail, got blisters, ran into expensive toll bridges, waited for bad weather to pass and had long discussions with race officials.
And all the time, the clock [...]

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Made for living

Everyone has a past life. In previous lives Yukon’s small producers of craft, art, herbal medicines, organic and healthy foods were former international activists, policy wonks, financial whizzes, heavy equipment operators, expeditors, counsellors and teachers.
The products these people are creating in their new lives — the products that are usually only available once a [...]

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New website in time for 2007 Canada Winter Games

So how many times did you read – new website coming soon !!  I thought people might be poking around a bit more and with the new snap previews on the site, readers might bump into it.  Nope.  Just as I can tell where people were before they got to my blog, I can also [...]

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When less is more

A new complement of healthy, refreshing beverages are rising midway between the jazzy sugars, caffeine, carbonation, taurine, and salts of different soft drinks and the boring blandness of plain water. These include the standard fruit juices, and new iced teas, nectars, and functional drinks. These new “functional drinks” are one of the fastest growing segments [...]

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Preparing for the big game

So instead of where has all the BoldRush gone, some regular blog readers may have been wondering where has BoldRush gone? BoldRush company principles, Lawrie and James, have been busy. Mid-October we spent three days drumming up our business strategy with our Board of Directors. We plastered the walls of the PowerPlant with sheets of [...]

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