Archive for the ‘Running’ Category
I run more than just Idée.
- Running: Race Season
It has started. It is race season already! Well if I was in California it would be race season all year long but for us poor Canadian folks trail racing season starts in Spring. My first 2010 race was the Chilly Half Marathon in Burlington which really was a road race – rather than a trail race – but I still enjoyed it. I am actually very fond of road races. I know I know: why run on roads when you can run on trails… During the race on Sunday, mother nature cooperated, there was sunshine and a cool breeze, optimal conditions for great running.
My friend Mark is kicking ass in his running with a fully loaded race schedule for 2010 including the insane Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Run. And his is not planning on doing the 50K or 50M, he is going for the 100 mile. Way to go Mark! Check out his awesome race schedule.
Here are my next two races:
- Seaton Trail: 26 KM
- Sulphur Springs: 50 KM
- Weekend reading
Dan Pink on the science of motivation – a Ted Talk
Born to Run: if you are a runner, run get this book and wiggle your toes at the shoe giants!
Startup advice: Evaluating risk and opportunity as a human by Paul Buchheit.
Homage to Alan Turing.
- Trail race schedule
Nothing gets me running like a race schedule. This summer has been quite pathetic on the running front so I am going to remedy that by scheduling a few fall and winter races. Yes, winter races. I can already hear you all: running in the snow, and freezing cold? Well yes… and looking forward to it too. Now the 3 running musketeers are going to try and get back together for an awesome running time – every day running is on the schedule apparently. The two musketeers have been doing really well without me; I am the slacker!
So our first race is going to be Vulture Bait in October.
- Seaton Trail: trail running! Finally!
Just managed to get one of the last spots for the Seaton Trail race this weekend. These trail races are organized by the Mudpuppies. The course is a 13 km out and back along Duffins Creek featuring single track trail, water crossings, tuff long hills, lots of ups and downs, twists and turns and roots and rocks. Apparently it is a true ultrarunner’s dream. I remember the first time I ran this trail I cursed all the way to the finish line. This bloody trail has tons of ups and downs and a billion roots to try and avoid. Photos from previous years don’t do it justice. I don’t even know why I am returning to do this race but hey, I love a challenge. I will avoid the water crossing as much as possible – perhaps there will be a bridge: doing a water crossing right at the start of a race is a pain, your shoes get wet, your socks get wet and all you get at the end of the day is giant blisters!I am doing the 26km race, but there is a 52 and 78 KM race as well! Fun times.
- Stretching is bad for you?
This comes up in discussions in our household all the time because when I run, I don’t start by stretching although everyone does. I don’t like stretching my cold muscles and cold body, I would rather do that once I am warmer. How do I get warmer: by starting to run. So yes I run without stretching and now science is on my side! I am saving this link for ever and pointing all my running buddies to it. There. I told you so.
If you’re like most of us, you were taught the importance of warm-up exercises back in grade school, and you’ve likely continued with pretty much the same routine ever since. Science, however, has moved on. Researchers now believe that some of the more entrenched elements of many athletes’ warm-up regimens are not only a waste of time but actually bad for you. The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them. Read on…
- Running Oct 06, 2008
End of day run: ideeplex to home = 5 km. I am exhausted but can’t image starting my running season by not keeping up my end of the bargain for at least one day!
Total km for Monday Oct 6, 2008 = 10 km. Good times.
- Running: Monday Oct 6
5 km down, 5 km to go. Running down Parliament Street (in Toronto) at top speed while listening to Poor Jason Whyte by the Abissinians and dodging traffic was a great start to my running season!
- Running
(c) theotherjhonc
It is not the new year yet but I am starting this week with a commitment to run 10 km a day. Every day. We will take this one day at a time but there you have it: it is out there. Get ready to see the weekly numbers come back. I am dreaming of the good old days where a 40 km week was normal and a long distance race a month was pretty much the norm. I look around and I wonder what really happened here, I mean it is not like my keyboard can actually start running after me if I decide to unglue myself from my desk! All right folks: get out there!
- Running on my mind
(c) Photograph by Eugenio
- Running
My running has been quite pathetic but… I registered for the Waterfront Marathon in fall so I better shape up. There is even talk in the Ideeplex of other people joining the running. That would be awesome! The marathon course is flat, very well supported and along the lake. Looking forward to it.
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