works of wanderlust

Category: running & adventure

My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.

  • Running: What is Hill Training?

    Sunday Runday and while the weekends are reserved for distance training, the springtime has rebooted our training schedule and put us back into proper-training-mode. This includes regular and progressively longer hill training runs. If you happen to live beside a hill where runners train maybe you’ve seen folks like my running friends and I, climbing

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  • Wanderlust

    There was a moment in time, however brief, when this blog was almost called “the Wander Guy” wherein I wrote about wandering through the world and between those adventures got distracted by taking pictures, cooking great food and other things… rather than, y’know, the other way around. wawn – derr – luhst The yearning and

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  • Winter Reprise Surprise Run

    Sunday Runday, and yesterday morning I did some work in the yard, took the dog for a lovely spring walk, sat in the grass, cleaned up some flower beds, and generally enjoyed the spring. This morning we met for a run on icy sidewalks and through ankle-deep snow. These woodpecker winter days are nothing too

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  • Edmowood

    Community spirit comes in many different shapes and sizes. Sometimes it comes in the shape and size of a larger-than-life travelling sign that shows up mysteriously in parks around the city. ED – mō – wo͝od A nonsense name and (I assume) a portmanteau of the name of our city “Edmonton” and the name of

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  • Camping: Of Annual Adventures Gone Awry

    It’s Travel Tuesday and once again I’m reminded of the challenge of living through a global pandemic and a life dismantled by a thousand small cuts. You see, each year with — the exception of last year — we usually go camping with a small group of families. Eight adults. The same number of too-rapidly-growing-up

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