Archive for the ‘Running’ Category
I run more than just Idée.
- 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.
- Not running = bad
I know exactly what is wrong: I have stopped running and that’s bad, real bad! Back on the running bandwagon today.
(c) Photograph by Robert Brook
- Let the fun begin: Tahoe Triple
Awesome progress on one of our latest (top secret!) products. It is so exciting that I am having a hard time sleeping. With the reduced sleep schedule, excitement, lack of running I am starting to turn into a lump kept alive by caffeine! But no really folks: we are excited, we are bug eyed, we just can’t stop the excitement dance.
Talking about lumps: I can’t run when I don’t have a race goal. I looked at my racing schedule for previous years and realized there was a big correlation I ignored last year: race schedule drives the running. So in that spirit: I am registering for the Tahoe Triple in September. My first attempt was pathetic but I learned so much; well actually I learned a single lesson: in the great words of my friend Stowe: you can not will your body across the finish line, you need to train. Well here we are on the road to training for the Tahoe Triple. Any takers? It is just 3 marathons in 3 days. One marathon a day. Great scenery. Fantastic crew!
It is immensely fun, eye opening, insane, fantastic, scary, incredible all at the same time.I will have a support crew this time because it actually makes a difference and my friends get a great kick participating in my adventures (or laughing at me!).
- Habiburton Trail Race
I am trail running this weekend. It has been insanity at work – oh what else is new really! – and I have not been running much. This weekend is the Haliburton Forest trail race. I would have loved to sign up for the 50km but as it is I will barely finish the 25 km. Looking forward to it. Haliburton Forest is 3 hours North of Toronto and it will be nice to get out of town. The trail race will include runners completing 100 miles! The time limit for the 100 miler is 30 hours…Mindbender!
- The Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Runners
It has stared in NY more than two weeks ago and my hero is back for another amazing race. I know: 3100 miles in less than 51 days is insane and beautiful at the same time. One day, many years from now, I will set aside 51 days of my life to run around a NY city block to compete. The runners bios have finally been posted.
I don’t know why. I am adding it to the list of items to do, this list includes a Tangier to Johannesburg trip (on foot, car or any transport mode available).
First, the triple tahoe attempt this year (September) – hope we will do better than last year, after that the MDS.
But tomorrow 25 little kilometers…You can send messages to the Self Transcendence runners here. A little CNN article about the race can be viewed here.
- Get Outside
Getting ready for tomorrow’s Creemore Vertical: 25 KM of vertical trails by drinking Pastis (I am dreaming of a Perroquet but I don’t have any mint syrop) and copying songs to my ipod. I know I will regret this. I just know it but …I am looking forward to the race. My running has totally tanked this year. It has been quite pathetic. With the exception of a 14 km run last week in High Park with Mr. T. I have done nothing, nothing, nothing. Well 5 km here, 5 km there but that’s about it. Sad. Sad. Sad.
Tomorrow’s course is a 25 kilometer hourglass loop with 25% trail, 74% gravel road, 1% pavement and
almost no cliffs. The course is hilly (60% uphill and 30% downhill), climbing the Niagara Escarpment twice per loop. I want to do the 50 km run but I know I will never finish it. I pray that I will have the strenght and courage to finish tomorrow’s 25 km. I hate gravel and I hate hills. But up, up, up we will go.
I am erasing all songs in my ipod and copying over my hard core music. Tomorrow I will run with Tupac, The (legendary) Roots, Brother Ali, Outlawz, Dead Prez, Mos Def and for the finish line Manu Chao cranked up.
Deprisa deprisa a rumbo perdido…
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