I ran to the Bird Sanctuary today and it turned into a 14.4k (8.95 mile) run. This is the farthest I’ve run in one session. The boardwalk had frost on it and was quite slippery in the shade. About 1/3rd of the way out I felt like my right leg was developing [...]
Posts on ‘November 11th, 2005’
Northern Flicker
This is a picture of one of our local bird species, a Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus. This is the yellow shafted variety. I took this picture in our back yard in September. These birds are really cool. They eat anys and they pick up ants and rub themselves with them to [...]
My Training Areas Part 4
Here are thumbnails of the river trails along the North Saskatchewan River. It was cold the day my wife took these pictures. We walked the trail that day, but it will be a tough cross-country run when it comes to that. There are some really bad patches and lots of hills, [...]
My Training Areas Part 3
My hill-training hill. Here is one of the roads down into the river valley. The car is our car with me in it, and my wife snapping the photo. I stopped the car at the 200 meter mark which is how far I go before I turn around and come back down. [...]
My Training Areas Part 2
The HWY 60 bridge near Devon. I use this road to bike into town on my cross-training days. It’s a tough hill into town, and just as tough going back. It’s tough in other ways as well, such as the traffic hazard as you cross the bridge across the North Saskatchewan River [...]
My Training Areas Part 1
Here is the boardwalk at the Clifford E. Lee Bird Sanctuary. There are also woodland trails. Great place to run except in the winter when the snow can be piled so high on the boardwalk that it is hard not to slip off.
It’s a Deer’s Breakfast
These are two of 5 or 6 deer that regularly prune our trees and garden. They are really cute if you like watching them eating the unopened buds off our spring bulbs. Who needs to look at flowers anyway?
