Archive for December, 2006

Year End Totals

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

I ran 770 km or about 479 miles in the year 2006. I biked 826 km (513 miles) this year. Since I began keeping track, my records show a total of 1035 km run (644 miles) and 944 km (587 miles) biked.
But I have to say I’ve run a lot further than my [...]

The last run of 2006…

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

I ran 8 km today in my last run of the year. You can read my totals in the next post. Next year I will do more, I am fairly certain. I felt really awful in the first 4 km of my run. I just shuffled along and I sometimes got [...]

Where do I run? What’s it look like?

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

I run on country roads mostly. I took this photo looking towards the North during my 5 km run today:

The days are getting longer but the sun is still very low on the horizon even at high noon. The shadows can be pretty dramatic.
Tomorrow I run for the last time this year. [...]

6.5 today in a diamond studded sky…

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Back from work late today, and I decided I had to get my run in so at 7PM I headed out for my 6.5 km run. The sky was not warm. The stars were glittering beady little things that seemed to be offended that I would intrude on their eternal icy vigilance. [...]

Starry starry night…

Friday, December 15th, 2006

I ran all the way (6.5 km) with no walk break last Thursday morning. It felt really good. Last Sunday I really pushed it with my daughter Morgan and I was still a bit stressed from that. I think the problem is trying to find the right pace for both of us.
I [...]

It’s official, we have water!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

After 5 or more years of rationing, our water is now hooked up as of 2:45
PM, the backhoe has left the building and our old shallow well buried. We
will be flushing the system over two days and in about two weeks we will
have the water tested. Will be draining and flushing the [...]

We have water…

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

It was dark before the drillers finished, but their initial test indicates well over 100 gallons per minute. This is an incredible amount of water! We would have been happy with 2 or 3 gallons per minute.
Here is a photo of the screen about to be dropped into the hole. I used [...]