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Turtle Power
Sunday runday and on my solo five klick shakeout I paused beside path to watch a turtle the size of a football basking in Florida sunshine. Also, it was nearly fifty degrees celsius warmer than the last time I ran oudoors a little more than a week ago. I haven’t been that sweaty from running
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Pathfinding & Found Paths
Sunday Runday and we should have known better than to go onto the icy trails after an overnight snowfall less than a week after an ice storm. But the sun was peeking over the eastern horizon and lighting up the December sky in all sorts of pretty colours, so the ice seemed like a temporary
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Them Feets
Sunday Runday, and I didn’t. For a whole week I’ve been sidelined by a heel ailment that I’ve self-diagnosed as a touch of plantar fasciitis, or runner’s heel. Them feets! The thing is that I’m supposed to run a half marathon in a little more than a month. The thing is that I need to
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Three Cheers for Traction
Having run for well over a decade in the ever changing seasons of the Canadian prairies I have fought many battles with the hardened warrior otherwise known as winter trail conditions. Ankle-deep fresh snow. Ice-slickened asphalt. Road slop like oatmeal or worse, dirty slush. It is only November yet already the paths have become an
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Boston Pi (Virtual)
Most everyone I know in the running community knows that in addition to Canadian thanksgiving, this weekend is also the Virtual Boston Marathon. At least five people I know signed up for the race, which thanks to the pandemic was a once in a lifetime opportunity to run through your own streets, track it on