Run for Boston (Calgary)

Streak to the beach - Day 20

Time : 42:51Minutes
Distance : 5.0 Miles 
This Week: 23.10 Miles

Total: 66.68

The weather went to crap this morning, the temperature plunged overnight and the wind shifted from the North.  North winds are never a good thing here, usually are bitingly cold and in spring could bring white stuff.

I laid in bed until 10:00 then decided that if I was going to do this “Run for Boston” event to show solidarity with the running community I had to get up. I drove down to the river and met up with the assembled masses.

It was a pretty good turn out for an ad hoc event thrown together on social media and on a day when the weather was turning nasty. There was no route, there was no distance you just showed up and ran. 

I decided to run towards downtown (with the masses) and then loop back on the other side of the river.

At the bridge there were still many people following and continuing on. It was a great way to show support.

On the way back conditions deteriorated.  There was a section of the path that was still covered in ice and snow.  The wind picked up and it was a fairly strong head wind with no protection. Then it started to snow, not really hard but c'mon on April 20th Snow. Give us a break.  I looped back to the finish area and much to my surprise there was bananas, water and coffee. It was still very chilly so I grabbed a banana and a bottle of water and headed home.

many thanks to Trevor Haufbauer, a Sait student for organizing this event.

A good Day

Plod on.

Calgary Police Half Marathon

Distance : 21.1 km (approx) 
Time 1:49:00 (approx)

This is my first half marathon so I guess I set both my best time and my worst time at this distance.  Times are approximate until they post the official results.

Tough race – the first half was fast and seemed to be all downhill.  The second half seemed to be all uphill and into the wind.

The long trek up the 90 avenue hill and the weasel head hill just about did in my hamstring and had to slow to an almost walk to avoid doing damage.

Alexandra at Making Waves has some great graphics showing the route, race profile, and the white stuff that we woke up to this morning.

This is a great race with great volunteers and is very well organized, the course is scenic and a little challenging.  I give it 2 thumbs up. 

Kudos to the Westhills running room group I thought we were well represented.

 

Plod on