Category: sports
baby Canada geese many, many dogs that were very happy to be spending the afternoon at the beach or the park many, many joggers – many of whom were running faster than I was many, many bikers – some of whom were biking slower than I was running ((I’m not even sure how that’s possible, […]
Last year after I ran the Vancouver half marathon, I ran into my friend Rachel who had run the 8 km race. And I saw that she got a medal for running the 8 km. And I said, “I ran 21.1 km and I could have run less than half that distance and still got […]
Last night I went to a lovely wedding on a boat (congrats to Tanya & Barry on their nuputals!). We had to leave at 5:30 p.m. to go to Granville Island to board the boat. But the first game of the Canucks second round playoff series started at 5 p.m. and as we all know, […]
Tomorrow, Alicia and I will be running the 8 km race at the BMO Vancouver International Marathon. We are training to run the Scotiabank half marathon in June ((why are banks such big fans of running??)) and figured that the 8 km would be a nice training run ((though our scheduled Sunday training run for […]
Ice cream. Looks like I need to go buy another box of those ice cream cones for Round 2. Also, when I was out for my run today, I was running on Kits Beach and saw the monument to George Alexander Burrows that, every time I run buy it, makes me think “He spells his […]
So there’s this other blogger out there ((come to think of it, I don’t even remember how/when I started following her blog)) and I’m pretty sure we are twins who were separated at birth. She’s a scientist and an uber-Canucks fan and blogs about dirty hockey terms ((see here and here for comparison)), and is, […]
Today was day 1 of 2 of hockey playoffs. And despite the fact that we lost both of our games, I have to say that we played really damn well. Here’s hoping tomorrow we translate playing well into winning!
I’m sitting here watching Canada play Italy in Paralympic sledge hockey ((on TV, not live. I’ll be watching live sledge hockey on Wednesday night)) and it got me wondering how and when sledge hockey was created. So, thanks to the wonder of Wikipedia, I now know that: sledge hockey was created in the early 1960s […]
… is off to a running start. Hee hee. Puns. Alicia and I went out for a run today. A leisurely little 7 km. Our first official run of the 2010 running season! We’ve both done some other short runs ((I even went out for a run in *Surrey*! And I have to say it’s […]
When I was a kid, we had the Calgary ’88 Olympics glasses from Petro-Canada. I’d be willing to bet that most Canadians remember these glasses – everyone I’ve mentioned them to recently has said, “The ones with the gold that flaked off?” Yup, those would be the ones. They looked like this ((FSM bless the […]