Running

Back to the gym

I missed the first Fitness World Groupon, thinking my local Fitness World had not gone Steve Nash, but got onto the second one that was even cheaper! The gym got ...

The pinnacle of narcissism: My Marathon Scrapbook

Following a moment of inspiration, I laid out my marathon/race bibs on my coffee table and mulled over how they will fit on a poster board in a way that ...

Thoughts from VIM 2010 (Vancouver Marathon)

Congratulations to TJ, TLT, Ann, the others who overcame personal expectations and did a full marathon in Vancouver (VIM) yesterday! Last year, I did VIM kind of so that I ...

Stuff for runner girls

I can be such a poser. Given a wall of girly magazines as choices for light reading during a flight, I skipped over Cosmo, Marie Claire, Glamor, and the like ...

First 8K Race; Or “Where I get to go all green!”

After three years of seeing me run like one possessed, NPY started running for fitness and we did a 5K “fun run” together in October. Not satisfied with not knowing ...

All about 2010 running

What an upheaval the Olympic Games in Vancouver in February has caused on the local running schedule! The First Half Half-Marathon, usually taking place in February, would fall smack-dab in ...

CIBC Run for the Cure 2009 — Vancouver | “Fun Run” Recap

a.k.a. “The race I nearly forgot was a race and thus nearly forgot to blog about it….” As is plainly obvious (or is it?), I haven’t been running much since ...

Lucky #4: Vancouver Marathon 2009 Recap

Wayyyyy back in December 15, 2008, faced with an earlier-than-usual early bird deadline, I decided to “get Vancouver Marathon out of the way”. With three marathons down in three consecutive ...

The Night before Marathon #4

I’m blogging the night before my fourth marathon because I can. Usually I have been away in a different city and NPY is with me in our hotel room and ...

Look Before You Leap

This little chart is the main event after my “teaser” entry posted over a week ago. But first the back story…. For the 2009 Vancouver International Marathon, the early bird ...