Category: sports
And while we are talking about my exercise goals, let’s take a look at how I did on my pushup goal! Goal: 1,300 Completed: 1,385 Success! I completed 107% of my goal! Luckily, I did a *lot* of pushups early in the year (see Figure 1 ((I haven’t yet graphed my running and biking numbers, […]
To every yin there is a yang and the yin to my successful running year is the yang of my epic failure biking. I had grand plans of biking 500 km this year and I managed to fail that in spectacular fashion. I’d figured that between some fun bike rides and spending some time on […]
If I’d actually written all the blog postings that I have composed in my brain, I would not need to be writing four blog postings a day to reach my goal. I was *sure* that I’d written about my ever-changing running goal for 2013, but I cannot find that blog posting anywhere, so apparently I […]
As we all know, the true meaning of Christmas is presents. And there sure were lots and lots of presents under the tree this morning! My niece and nephew got lots of nice toys – Madeline’s were dominated by Monster High dolls and Thomas’s included dinosaurs, trucks, and a few toys from Monsters University ((Specifically, […]
Hey, remember that time I made a hockey pool team full of players with dirty sounding names? Apparently I didn’t because I haven’t look at the standings in months. So I checked the standings just now and apparently my strategy of abject neglect has not been very effective: Overall Group Rank Overall Rank chg* Contestant […]
So this posting is very, very overdue. Way back in the days of yore – i.e., September – a bunch of us went stand up paddleboarding for Alicia’s birthday ((You might remember Alicia from such adventures as the Fall Classic Half Marathon 2013, the Edge-to-Edge Half Marathon 2013, Victoria half marathon 2010, Scotiabank half marathon […]
So Heather just told me about the Men of Curling calendar and suggested that it might be relevant to my interests. Not the curling part – I totally don’t understand how people watch curling – but the men in a calendar part. So I was all excited to check it out… and then I got […]
Did an 11 km run today. In the snow. Uphill both ways. Ok, maybe that last part isn’t quite true, though given how hard it is to run in the snow, it may as well be. I’m at my sister’s place in Toronto for the holidays, but since I’m still in the running study, I […]
Half marathon #9 complete! Here’s Alicia and I after the race: If we look a little out of it, it’s only because we are. Thanks to the aforementioned not training enough, both of us wanted to puke. But we did it and our time was better than the last two halfs that I did, so […]
So you know that running study ((Also, at the running group this morning, we met the Principal Investigator for the study, Jack Taunton. He’s a sports med doctor who was the Chief Medical Officer for the 2010 Olympics and founded both the Sun Run and the Vancouver International Marathon, among other achievements. So, you know, […]