Category: sports
OK, that’s entirely not true but I thought it was pretty freaking hilarious. Sadly, my running season has been off to an inauspicious start. As previously mentioned, my pathetic immune system’s inability to dispense with a simple sore throat/cold has severely hampered my attempt at starting the 2016 running season. However, I finally felt well enough to run and, […]
While I exceeded my 2015 goal of running 800 km by 34.7 km, I did it despite barely running in November and not running at all in December! As much as I enjoy running, I felt like I needed a little bit of a break from it. I’d been doing it with only one little break since […]
OK, one last thing about race medals. A blog reader who knows of my love of race medals directed me to this Pinterest page of awesome race medals! If you love race medals, you should check it out!
As you know, I’m rather addicted to race medals. And since I started racing in 2007, there’s been a considerable amount of what I’m calling race medal inflation. Race medal inflation has occurred both in the number of medals being offered and in the size of medals. Medals have gotten considerably bigger over the years. […]
And speaking of races that I’m going to run in 2016, thanks to my friend Julie, who you may recall from the PNE Donut Dash and the longest game of hockey, I’m already registered for one: The marathon relay involves four people teaming up to complete the 42.2 km of the full marathon as a team. […]
And speaking of my 2015 goals, another one was to run 800 km. Mission accomplished! I actually hit the 800 km mark back in Oct shortly before running the Rock’n’Roll 10 km race. And then after it got cold and rainy and dark and I had no other races to train for, and it became very […]
One of my 2015 goals was to add 5 new race medals to my collection. Mission accomplished! My first medal of the year didn’t come until May, when I ran the BMO Vancouver half marathon: Then came the Florida virtual half marathon: The PNE Donut Dash 5 km wins the prize for the cutest medal […]
Speaking of LitFest, I’ve been meaning to write a blog posting about Olga Kotelko since I learned about her at LitFest 2015… back in May! One of the events at LitFest 2015 was a talk by Olga’s co-author Roxanne Davies and her editor Michele Carter about the book “Olga – The O.K. Way to a Healthy, […]
The title of this post is one of those blogging prompts I mentioned, which is apparently I’m doing when I feel like and not doing when I don’t feel like and writing all sorts of other stuff when I feel like it (which was sort of the point of using the blogging prompts – just […]
So way, way back in the old timey days of the NHL pre-season, a young Jake Virtanen caught my eye, mostly because he was wearing jersey #27, which is *my* jersey number ((On one of my teams anyway)) and then I Googled him and not only is he a hottie, but he was born in New […]