Category: sports
So I’ve finally resurfaced from beneath the grant application I was working on this week ((seriously, the amount of work that it ended up being was far more than I could have anticipated. There were nights this week that I came home from work at ~4 p.m. then worked until 1 a.m. Not cool.)). The […]
So Darren is running a hockey pool and, of course, (a) I’m joining and (b) I’m stacking my team with the hottest NHL players I can find. Seriously, this strategy won me $250 in gift certificates in the hockey pool I was in last year, and who am I to question a proven method? I’ll […]
Tonight is my first game with my new hockey team! Don’t worry, I haven’t abandoned my first hockey – I just happened to have joined a second one, because one can never play too much hockey! Anyway, my new team uses a fancy pants online system called Pointstreak to track who will be at each […]
I think for tomorrow’s long run ((which is only 12 km, thank the FSM)), I’m going to try Crescent Beach. Now, we all know how my run in White Rock went, but since I now know that Crescent Beach is in Surrey, not WR, I’m willing to give it a try. I actually went to […]
Yesterday, I did my first Grouse Grind of the season! ((Yes, I know it’s September. Your point?)) I was supposed to do it with my friend Lianna, but some work came up for her and she couldn’t make it. And since when has a little thing like that gotten in my way? As I was […]
Dear People of White Rock, That thing you saw whizzing by you on the promenade today – the thing dressed in lycra, with an iPhone strapped to its arm, wearing headphones and a water bottle attached to its body, the thing that was putting one foot in front of another in rapid succession – that […]
Two Sundays ago, when I got home from my long run ((16 km long, in fact)), I discovered that I had a blister on my big toe. This blister, in fact: Believe it or not, I don’t think I’ve ever had a blister on my foot from all the running I’ve done. Blisters from wearing […]
So, as I’m sure I’ve never mentioned on here before, I love data. I used the Runkeeper app to track my running data, the Sleep Cycle app to track my sleeping data and (the now open source) wesabe to track my money data. So, not surprisingly, one of the blogs I follow is Information is Beautiful. […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m using the RunKeeper iPhone app to track my training runs. One of the things I really like about RunKeeper is that it gives you a graph of your pace and the elevation of the runs you do. And you know I’m a sucker for graphs. This is a graph from […]
This month’s public health achievement – the decline in deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke (a.k.a., cardiovascular disease [CVD]) – is one that hits close to home for me. My maternal grandfather died of a heart attack and both my paternal grandparents have had heart attacks as well. My mom is on meds […]