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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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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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Virtual Race Season, Take Two. Maybe.
Sunday Runday, and on our morning ten kilometer trail run everyone seem to want to talk racing season. Except there is no racing season. Twenty-twenty-one is a racing write off. Or… it would be if it wasn’t for virtual races. Virtual racing. Oh, those virtual races. And why? Last year as the pandemic picked up
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How should you dress to run in spring thaw conditions?
Here in the western prairies of Canada winter is usually a deep, frozen trio of months shouldered by an unpredictable autumn at the front end and a sloppy, scattered mess of thawing weather on the tail. It’s Sunday, Runday, and this morning we ran a ten kilometer spring run through that some of that scattered
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An Intro to Running with Dogs
Another Sunday Runday, and for the last couple weeks one of my small run crew cohort has joined us on the trails with her faithful canine running partner. A two-year old collie, her human leader (one of my long-time running friends) has spent a lot of effort training the dog on harness and leash to