The Never Ending Run

Distance : 8.0 mi
Time 1:16:09

Sunday is LSD day so I headed to the Westhills Running Room with the hopes of completing a 16K (10 Miler). I Like running with the Westhills gang because they do not follow the 10 & 1 Philosophy that is the creed of most stores. In discussions with the other runners we decided that we would only do about 8 K.

So we planned a route mainly street running that would give us a nice flat 8 K run on good surfaces. After running about five we started to talk about adding on a couple. When we got to seven (time to turn for the store) we decided to add on about 2 to give us ten. When we got to nine and it was time to turn back to the store two of us decided to do a quick out and back to add more.

It is hard to plan pace when you don't know when you are going to stop.


Tried taking pictures with the iPhone again but it was a drab day fresh snow falling throughout the run and the pictures did not seem to focus. It might have worked better if I actually stopped and and held the camera steady.


Plod On

Procrastination Run

Distance : 4.25 mi
Time 41:39

I was planning on running on Thursday but did not, then was going to run on Friday but found a reason not to. Dinner with friends or something. So Saturday came and if I was going to get another run in before my long run it had to be today.



I got up early and attempted to time my run to catch sunrise as I ran back towards the city. It turned out that the skies were overcast and the sunrise did not materialize and when i looked back towards downtown all you could see was the brown haze obscuring the core. Another reason not to run from work - just look at the brown haze.


I continued along the ridge on the way home and came to one of my favorite spots on this run. The ridge drops off sharply and the trail either winds through scrub poplars or has a death defying drop to the ravine below. Notice the trails are kind of snow covered and icy.

As part of My 2010 program I am trying to take pictures on every run and post them. These were taken on my iPhone and seem blurry. I hope it was the low light conditions and not something else.

Plod On.

Speed Play - Session 3

I am taking a workshop through the Mount Royal College er University recreation department. The weekly workshop is called "Speed Play" . I don't know why they call it play, play involves fun and interval work is never fun. I guess the feeling that comes after the workout is complete is worth it but it is not fun.

Tonight after the warm up and dynamic stretching and five sets of strides we started the workout.

4 x 800 with 2 min recovery (3:20)
4 x 200 with 1 min recovery (0:40)

then just foam roller massage - no ab work.

Plod on

Place Holder for Maui

I may want to add some stuff here. Maui is such a cool place to run albeit a little on the warm side.