I run, therefore I am…1081 kilometers farther than I was Dec 31 2007
So far this year I have run 64 km in this area and weather:
Here is a photo looking out through my front door. To the right is our bird feeder and a red mesh bag containing suet that our squirrels like to hoard. The squirrels chase away the pileated, downy, and hairy woodpeckers [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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.
