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Lunch Hour Snowshoe Running

Dom Repta, Denis Fontaine and me on top of Dog Mountain on our lunch hour yesterday. This is why I live in Vancouver!

North Idaho Race Course Marking

Well I decided to try and mark out the mileage on the course after a snow storm.

Backcountry Snowshoe Running Adventure

This is me in my snowshoes with my beloved banana tree on the first weekend of December. As you can see, banana trees don't like snow and we had a fair bit of it in Vancouver this week.

Mike and Melissa's Fun Run

My training for the Vancouver New Year's Run got slightly of track over the last 2 weeks. Fighting a stomach bug just couldn't get me excited going out in wet trails. Then I missed Dom's Go Home and all all my mid-week runs last week...

What's Cooking? Ean's Favorite Energy Bar

Tired of the old power bar? Guilty of diving into the cookie box one to many times? Here's a treat that serves the need of endurance athletes, yet is chock full of good stuff. Hey, it event passes Dom's vegan taste test...

Duct Tape: The Trail Runner's Best Friend

I was just reading Geoff’s comment in Sibylle Tinsel’s popular blog discussion about running in the rain. To summarize, Geoff doesn’t like to run in the rain because he ends up with bloody nipples. Sibylle, in turn calls him a wuss and suggests he use Band-Aids.

Stretching after a long Run

Training for the Vancouver New Year's Fat Ass 50 is going well. Yesterday we tackled 3h on the course. Starting at Kits Point we headed west passed the pool and the old tree trunk on the beach, followed Point Grey Road to Jericho Beach. This used to be my home turf and running along the groomed gravel path always felt decadent. The views are magnificent with the the waters of English Bay stretching to the North Shore Mountains. At Spanish Banks we left the beach and clambered uphill into the trails of Pacific Spirit Park.

Mushroom Mania - The Benefits of Trail Running on Vancouver's North Shore in the Fall

It's fun to run the trails in the winter because it's so invigorating. It's fun to run them in the spring because everything is so fresh and green. Trail running in the summer is awesome because you don't need many clothes. Fall is great because the woods smell like leaves and there's a cool nip in the air. I also love fall for the mushrooms.

10 Reasons for Running In The Rain

Getting serious with my plans to run the Vancouver New Year's Day Fat Ass 50 and to not neglect my midweek runs, I couldn't find an excuse this morning for not heading out.

It was raining, really hard. The roads were flooded and the trails looked like giant mud puddles. Our furnace had broken down the day before and I was slowly turning into an icicle. Moving could only be good!
 

Have a great H2H and stuff...

I am sure that Geoff Palmer and Wendy Montgomery are going to "giver". This will be the first time in 4 years that I will miss it! 2005 was my 100 Mile year, that's did. My next 100M will probably be the Javelina Jundred.
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