Tag: running training

  • Gear: Skin 4 Hydration Vest

    As the summer runs get longer (and hotter) I’ve picked up a new bit of gear to assist with the ever-present runner’s dilemma: hydration. I don’t think I need to write too many words on the subject of why water is important to … um … being alive, but certainly the effort of carrying enough

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  • Double Tap, Catching Up

    Sunday Runday and today I didn’t. I woke up nursing my second dose vaccine hangover, and feeling as tho I had just run a half marathon. The crew was due to run at least that much, so it didn’t take much convincing to ping everyone and let them know I was going to bail out.

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  • Social Distances

    Sunday Runday, and that familiar epic-tired-queezy feeling is settling in for the afternoon, and I don’t remember if it’s a good thing or the part of the long runs that I didn’t like. I hadn’t run more than a dozen kilometers in the better part of a year, certainly not over the winter, and during

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  • One Part Perspiration, One Part Inspiration

    It’s Sunday Runday and I slogged out another solo ten kilometer run this morning as I await the official lifting of a few of those pandemic restrictions later this week. And though I should have spent yesterday afternoon running twenty-five klicks through some local trails, I found I struggled more than usual this morning just

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  • May Long Weekend

    Just like the saying goes not to wear white after labour day, locally there seems to be a start line for the summer season: May long weekend. As of posting this I’ve wrapped up my work week and I am planning how to spend the first official three day weekend of the vague, loosely-defined stretch

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