SFU is a location for the Relay for Life fundraiser for the Canadain Cancer Society this March 19th 7pm - March 20th 7am. Excitingly, I have received approval to be a "Team of One", i.e., complete the 12-hour SOLO. If anyone would like to support my efforts to fundraise for the Canadian Cancer Society through the Relay for life that would be great! If anyone also wants to fundraise and complete the event SOLO you can contact the SFURelay organizer via email, she would be excited to hear from you. And oh, this will be my first attempt at running for 12-hours!
When I began to formulate a plan to run from Powell River to Vancouver, following a route which has never been completed in its entirety, in an unprecedented length of time, it became clear that gear was going to play a major role.
The 2010 Winter Olympics have impacted my training. What inspiration! What a party!
Seeing world class athletes at peak performance in the most competitive events in the world has caused me to think about what could have been and what can still be.
If you find yourself in Kelowna in business, carless, as I found myself recently, you can seek solace in some very decent urban runs. Most of you will know about these already, but I didn’t, so here you are for future reference:
Check out the FREE Fitness workouts - weekdays Mon-Wed-Fri - 12:05 pm event starting March 1st. These are structured informal body weight workouts with interval running at the end. No special equipment required, we actually use the environment in a cool kinda way, so come on out and check it out. More details on the event page - »
Only four Fools were at the 6 AM start. They were so demotivated at having no one to run with other than themselves that they decided to call it a day after three trips around the 18 K circuit. Unfortuately, we missed Tim who came out later. Perhaps we would have continued if we had connected with him. He's not the kind of guy who can be talked into bailing out of a run to go for a few beer.
I spotted her and her husband on Robson wearing Asics, gazing at a map of Olympic events.
I asked if either would be interested in a trail run, and she said yes.
The next morning, I picked her up at their B&B and we drove to Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. I pointed out the nearby Capilano Filtration Plant with pride while quipping, “that’s where our lovely water was purified by UV rays -- isn’t that fascinating?”
There were only two participants in this event. It's hard to imagine any other event that would keep people from running circles in the rain on such a nice course.
Olympic fever has hit Vancouver and I've definitely caught it. As someone who only a few weeks ago was rather apathetic about the Games I'm on the band wagon now.
I briefly saw the Olympic Torch relay on my drive home this morning. As I had a run planned for this afternoon I thought I'd check the relay route online and see if maybe I could catch more of the festivities.
Yesterday was a big day: I got to see the Olympic torch relay as it wove its way through my neighborhood, I got to hold the torch and hang-out with the torch-bearer... and I got a workout in on the spin bike at the gym!
Yesterday was a big day: I got to see the Olympic torch relay as it wove its way through my neighborhood, I got to hold the torch and hang-out with the torch-bearer... and I got a workout in on the spin bike at the gym!