I have had five days off from running, though interjected a few days of hiking instead. My second week of vacation was spent recuperating from constant activity (cleaning, cooking, stocking food, entertaining, etc. an extra five people in our household!)–this was all good for the most part. But when it was all over, I sat…
I realize today just how exhausted I am. Since late May the temperatures have been above normal, increasing to much higher than normal for June and now into July, especially the last 2-3 weeks. Compound this with little rain, bringing drought conditions. Since May 15 we have had hardly any rain: 7mm on June 2…
Just inland from Vancouver, BC, we have had a continued heatwave and growing drought. Here is a photo I took last week when running around campus. This is how lawns are starting to look. One of the big differences between here and places I’ve lived in the US is that people save water and generally…
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The Father’s Day race this weekend, besides being very hot, was great. I ran the 5K but noticed that most people had to just walk a little due to that heat. My husband said it was true of those running the 10K as well. I also ran extra after the race so that I…
This coming weekend, my husband and I will be running in a Father’s Day race. His father will be coming with us, but I will bring my father in spirit. Since his father will be mostly walking, and my husband will run a longer leg, we will be doing our own paces. That means I…
I just realized that by the time summer officially starts I will be nearly done with my 10K training. My last day of week 7 is Saturday, when I’ll do a 55 minute run. The following week will end with a 60-minute run, and then the 9th week is a recovery week. With just about…
Last night I had a dream that what was happening in India–the terrible pollution coupled with severe heat wave (the heat is something which India’s Earth Sciences Minister, Harsh Vardhan, has attributed to climate change) had begun to happen in countries where the signs of climate change are less visible, like my own country. In…
A couple nights ago my husband (Morgan) and I went to a “meet and greet” for volunteers for the Blue Dot Campaign. We met with one of the town councilors on Coquitlam’s board. Coquitlam is the last and toughest of towns near Vancouver to adopt Canadians’ right to a healthy environment. There’s a lot of…
First, I have made the astonishing discovery that runners and others who exercise outdoors have made for years, and that is the magic of electrolytes. In one of my last posts in the blog I was having a tough-go of running in the heat, but putting some potassium and sodium into my diet on the…
It feels like summer already, though we still have nearly a month before summer officially begins. Just having begun my fourth week in the 10K training program I am wondering if I chose the wrong time of the year to do this. Not that it’s even too hot yet. We’re getting up to the mid…
