The Vancouver Sun Run is next Sunday, and I feel trained for it already but, as with any race, I try to take it easy beforehand. Over last weekend I had to work at an open house, and my colleague was measuring her (our) amount of walking over the course of two days. It amounted …
Last running post was about the movie Wild; this post is about staying wild, only indirectly related. During my cold, foggy run today, I thought about something that author Virginia Arthur wrote in our Google+ group today, “Stay Wild.” Virginia, a field biologist, wrote Birdbrain, a novel about a woman and her experiences with birding …
Today was my first run outdoors in the new year, and it felt GREAT. I didn’t have high expectations, due to the fact that over the holidays I only ran on the treadmill and for shorter times. Today I ran further than ever before–such a beautiful day. It’s cloudy and cool but no rain. As …