Racing Series

HBC Run for Canada Recap

C. suggested that my drug of choice is endorphins (the runner’s high) to which I responded, “What the h*ll is that?” I’ve heard of it, but I don’t regularly feel ...

Best Bluenose ever….!

Given there was a continous drizzle during the inaugural year and gail-force winds that forced postponement and a course change during the second year, this year’s overcast skies (for the ...

VIM: The water-logged marathon

Weird pre-half’er behaviour includes being in bed at 10:30 (and asleep by 11), placing a cell phone/alarm next to my ear, waking several times in a panic (3:51 and 4:19), ...

The Sun Run Recappie (Year 2)

Sun Runners Uploaded by memaxmarz. (Updated with full results at the end of the post.) So the whole thing went down. Why don’t I sound uber-excited? Because I was about ...

flat is flat (the 6th halfer)

(warning, at some point in this blog, i will become more graphic because that is the complete experience. this graphic section will be clearly marked and you can skip to ...

the fifth one

(i got back home at 11:30 p.m. after an 18-hour day that included a 20-kilometer run and “backpacking” through a foreign city. while i wrote this up on the flight ...

the lost marathon

when i took a blogging hiatus in september last fall until november, it meant some stuff fell through the cracks, like an illicit trippie back “home” and a half marathon ...

svhm (2005) race recappie

it was funny how when i was looting through my goody bag, my little plotting brain goes into overdrive. the goody bags always include pamphlets for races by the same ...

i’m a 10kph machine (a.k.a sun run post-mortem)

(which is 6.25mph for my american readers.) what does one do when left all alone during a 10K run?…. consider how to present it in my blog! sad, huh? but ...

2:02:19.2 – a new pb* – now what??

(Originally posted on a now-defunct blog. Posted here November 21, 2006.) * pb = personal best fab-fab-fabulous weekend…. (warning: not very intellible and elegant in writing today as you will ...