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Planning the family dinner menu can be challenging , frustrating, joyful, relaxing, harried...

The "what's cooking tonight" blogs will deal with nutrition in our fast food world and document what my family is eating....or not. Sometimes it will be junk, other time gourmet, catering to the under 10 crowd in the house, our home stay student's preferences, or our need for comfort foods. I will serve family classics, old family recipes, whim of the moment creations - yummy or yucky, holiday food, elaborate dinner party menus and Kraft Dinner.

I can't remember how many years Pat and I have been running together on Saturday mornings. It probably started with a marathon clinic after my son Erik was born 7 years ago.

For the past year, I've had a bad foot. After months of X-rays, bone scans, diagnoses from doctors, physiotherapists, podiatrists and a few quacks, I learned I had Plantar Fasciitis.

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I'm in Banff for work on Thurs and Fri, but have some time on Friday to hit some trails if anyone in that area is interested? Looking for 2-3 hours-casual.

I know the area and have a ride if we had to get out of town a bit. K-Country, Spray, Hoodoos, Cascade, Canmore. I'm pretty open. I'll be heading out somewhere but company is nice. Hopefully the bears are gone to bed for the winter!

I was originally thinking of hitting Cascade and Rundle on Friday but probably not as I hear the weather has been turning, so I'm opting for something shorter.

Last week was an 80+ hour work week.  It was a good week for getting through the papers that had been piling up on on my desks and all over the floor of my office.  I whittled my email In-Box down from 287 messages to 82.  I got back to most of the folks who had left voice mail messages.  I brought a project almost to completion and got some headway into year-end accounting paperwork while listening to tunes from Zimbabwe on the Internet at 2:00 am.  It was, however, not a great week for running.

As my first ever blog, I am going to do a race report of the Silvertip 50 km trail run. As a backgrounder, the Silvertip 50 km is the last race of the BC Montrail ultrarunning series. The start/end point of the run is in Sunshine Valley close to Hope.

One of the reasons I run is so I can do stuff like the Forbidden Forest Run. This is a photo from the finish of the 2005 FFR and that's Scott Riddell, Dom Repta and Tim Wiens about to go for a well-deserved pint.

True, it's dark. In fact, it was inky dark. We are also running on trails... something most runners wouldn't think of doing in the night out of fear of falling and breaking their necks.

Saturday was a great day: I got in my longest run in over a year (somewhere around 40K), I explored some previously unknown terrain with a couple of buddies, bagged a peak... and I believe I contributed toward saving a guy's life!

Saturday was the inaugural Squamish Scrambler. I was really keen to do this because for as long as I can remember, I've wanted to climb the magnificent Diamond Head (Attwell Peak) that towers above Squamish, BC. This would be a run to the neighboring Little Diamond Head.