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Setting out for my morning run.  The problem with the routes in my neighborhood is, that unless I am willing to run on the road, there is a lot of up or down involved.  Nothing just easy rolling or flat. 

Great Lake Walk 56K 2005 Exactly one week after running my first 100 mile race I toed the line once again, this time in a local "round the lake run" @ Lake Cowichan, B.C.I was by no means fully recovered from my previous weeks race but decided that the chances of doing reasonably well were good as the bulk of the field were hikers.I had the good fortune of winning the inaugural running of this race and wanted to have an unbroken streak in something!This year was the slowest finish for me, there was just no humph in me, I felt better at the end of the run than the beginning, but I

I don't know how many of you guys and gals train alone but I would say that for most of the week, running alone is a fact of life, with the week-ends for running with your buddies. Most of your mileage should be mid-week, if you are trying to get your long run in at the week-end you have wasted your mid-week training opportunities.At the W/E you can blaze a trail or two and kick up the intensity or take a break from your high, easy mileage, and enjoy the company.Don't rely on the those two days for you mileage, get them in mid-week.

It is official. I am committed to tackle the full 50km on at the Vancouver New Year's Day 50 Run. Pat is in and Rhonda and Cheryl have expressed interest in joining us slow pokes. As Rhonda put it, "a 50K on New Year's Day would be an excellent way to spent the day....as in, I'm never in a hurry to finish and don't mind extending the time in an activity I love."

 

 

 

The following article was published in the New York Times Sports Section about Jesper's World Run: NYTimes article on Jesper's World Run - Run Around World Tries a Man's Soles By IRA BERKOW Published: October 25, 2005

 

For the past few days news of Jesper finishing his World Run have dominated the ultra running news and various forums.

I have followed Jesper's progress ever since receiving an email from his friend in Australia, Phil Essam, asking to support Jesper on his way through Canada.

At first, his note ended up at the bottom of my inbox. I was thinking, how am I supposed to help this guy. He is probably a bit strange. I have a family, a job and very little free time to begin with...I am not able to drop everything when he runs into town.

I've always been an entrepreneur:  I shoveled snow, cut lawns, bought and sold postage stamps as a kid and always had some moonlighting thing or another going on after joining the workforce.

Since promising myself I'd never work for anyone else again in June 2000, I've been a true entrepreneur.  Apart from not having a paycheck, to me the definition of "entrepreneur" included having a home office and a flexible schedule that could accommodate noon hour runs in the sun and drop in visits by running buddies at all hours of the day.

Listening to the torrential rains the night before Wendy's Get Your Fat Ass Off The Couch Run was not encouraging. I was trying to get excited about running for 3 hours soaking wet, cold and miserable. In principle, I like running in the rain, feeling the rain drops on my face, jumping through the puddles and getting all nice and warm in the shower afterward.

How many running families do you know? I can think of quite a few in my neck of woods and I'd like to bet so do you. Coincidence, lifestyle, genetics?

I've heard that the saddest day in a boy's life is when he realizes that he is faster than his father.... unfortunately I'm going to have to wait a few more months to know that feeling.