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		<title>fifty walks, walk eight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was so tired after my week up north that I struggled through the first week at home, napping daily, going to bed early, and fighting to get in my regularly scheduled runs without slumping into a ditch somewhere. Little doubt that I never made it out for a long walk. The Route The Kid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>fifty walks, walk four</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m going to (mostly) skip over the part where the straight face I mentioned in my last walking post re:spring fell and we had another few days of chilling winter weather. Instead, I just jump right into the idle decision that the day had improved enough that I’d just keep walking when I set out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>panoramic, two: art expedition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Artist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I went for a long walk on Friday.&#160; I could sense that autumn-proper was ending. I mean, partially this had to do with a coherent ability to look at a calendar and see that as we enter October things tend to sine-wave pretty erratically between bitter cold and the autumn warmth reprise. But in there, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inflatable Summer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[December 7 of 31 December-ish posts Following my (un)inflatable winter, when last spring finally rolled around I was able to unpack my inflatable kayak from it&#8217;s box, spread it out on my small backyard lawn, and figure out how to work this fabulous new toy that had spent the winter taunting me from my basement storage room. What [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Little Lives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 19:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunday Runday, and my morning run (though short) was a fast, local race. Too often I discount and downplay the value of lacing up for a cause that isn’t just another tick on the tally of my own personal achievements. Yet a five kilometer fundraiser race, as far removed as it is from the epic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Mystery of Big Island (Part Three)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 15:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly a year and a whole long winter of impassable trails through the river valley since I posted an update about the work being done to turn a small bit of land with a big local history into a small provincial park. The last time we thought about that effort on this site, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stewards of the Trails</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While volunteering as a course marshal at a local trail race yesterday, I stood in the same spot in the woods for nearly three and a half hours. Much of that time was spent clapping and cheering and directing racers away from a detour where the path had naturally washed out near the river bank. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 01:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I may have written earlier this year about how I&#8217;ve spent each of the last two summers devising a weekly run outing for my running crew. Each week over about fourteen weeks of summer we would meet at a location I&#8217;d disclosed earlier in the day for a six to eight klick run. It could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interesting Places</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Depending on how the rest of my holiday-countdown week shapes up, how the holiday break happens (or not), and a couple of pandemic-related decisions that have yet to be made get sorted, going out on the winter trails last night for a six klick run in the falling snow may have marked my last run [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fall Colours</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[During my exhausting trail half marathon this past weekend I may have tired myself out good and proper, but I managed to keep enough mental focus to nab some photos of my adventures through the autumn foliage. Of course when one is running an epic wilderness race carrying proper camera equipment is out of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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