Category: sports
In addition to PowerGels, I’ve now added Sharkies – fruit chew thingys that are shaped like sharks – to my half marathon training regimen. Like PowerGels, Sharkies are meant to replace electrolytes and provide carbs for when you do crazy thinks like run for hours or play hockey for days. Unlike PowerGels, Sharkies are delicious, […]
Can you believe that it’s only 100 days until the puck drops for the Longest Game of Ice Hockey? It seems like only days ago I signed on to play hockey for 10 days straight (eek!) and now here it is, a mere 2,400 hours until 39 women and I step onto the ice to […]
Darren Facebooked earlier today about his disappointment at seeing Canucks-branded bottled water in stores recently – you know, given that bottled water is a “lousy, wasteful product,” (or, as I like to say – bottled water is bullshit). Just the other day I’d been in Save-on-Foods and saw the exact product he was talking about […]
OK, maybe you can. But you shouldn’t, really. As you know, I’m currently raising money for Cystic Fibrosis Canada as part of the Longest Game of Hockey for CF. (Speaking of which, have you donated yet?) Well, in addition to asking all y’all to donate, my friend Kim, who has decided to join me in […]
My calves are yet again displeased with me. Ever since I ran the 8 km race two weekends ago, they have been super duper tight. And I woke up with a charley horse in my calf at about 4:30 this morning ((Do. Not. Like.)). After my long run on Saturday, I had a massage. I […]
So tonight the Canucks won game #6 of their second playoff round, eliminating the Nashville Predators ((I think everyone can agree that it is a mercy that Shea Weber can now shave off that horrible, horrible beard! His beard is so out of control, in fact, that it had its own Facebook page!)) and advancing […]
My spring/summer hockey league started up last night, with a 5-4 victory! And two points for me! For the summer, I have joined a team made up of some players from the team I play on in Burnaby in the winter, plus some players from other teams, including two other players from the team I […]
Remember how I discovered last year that you get a medal for running the 8 km race at the BMO Vancouver marathon and why the hell would you run 42.2 km ((A full marathon)), or even 21.1 km ((A half marathon)), when you could just run 8 measley km and get a medal? Yeah, so […]
Is it just me, or does Shea Weber, captain of the evil Nashville Predators, look *a lot* like serial killer Dexter Morgan? I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the team Weber plays for is called the “Predators.”
Long time readers of NTBTWK may remember the tale of the cursed chocolate bar. For those who don’t, let me explain. Back in the NHL playoffs of ’07…. oh hell, here’s a cut-and-paste job from my blog posting at the time: I nearly had a heart attack watching tonight’s game! It had been very frustrating […]