works of wanderlust

Tag: sunday runday

  • 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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  • Backyard: Start Line

    Sunday Runday and my usual social weekend run date has turned into a solo expedition from my backyard. But training calls, and has little respect for blips in the calendar like global pandemics and provincial lockdowns and excuses about being stuck in one’s own backyard. Knowing a convincing distance run (by which I really mean

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  • Should you take walk breaks while running?

    Back in 2012 I ran my first travel-based half marathon. My wife and I had hopped on a plane and spent a long weekend in Las Vegas where the race had shut down the strip and some tens of thousands of runners ran through the Nevada evening basked in glow of more neon than I’d

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