There was an American Goldfinch visiting our yard this morning. I've seen them out at Jessica's parent's place, but never in our neibhourhood before. He stuck around long enough for me to grab my camera and snap some pics!


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This week will be the hardest week of my training program, in terms of mileage at least. I had a really nice 8k run this morning, but I think I'm beginning to burn out a little bit. Although that may just be because my runs last week were pretty crappy. I used the treadmill in my hotel in Atlanta1 and I hated it. Haaaaaated it. But by the time ( Read more... )

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My long run this week was 25k. I did it in about 2:43, which is a slightly faster pace than what I ran for last weekend's 24. It also felt much, much, better. I mean, it was still a long, hard, tough run but I never felt like I was suffering. I ran with my old, broken-in shoes, though, and had to dash inside for a bathroom break at 9k so I did ( Read more... )

Saturday I wonder ran further/longer than I have to date: 24km in a little under 2:39. That's a slower pace than my 21km run and about the same as my 19km run from a few weeks back. Back to roughly a 4:40 marathon pace ( Read more... )

I was in Toronto again this weekend and as usual my trip was action-packed enough that it can only be summarized in a bulleted list.

Friday

• Arrive around 12:20. Made the fatal mistake of getting a seat near the back of the plane. Was also trapped by a polite, off-duty pilot sitting beside me who left everyone else off before he got up. 15 ( Read more... )

This week in running went pretty swell. On Tuesday I lowered my 5k best to around 27:30 and on Wednesday my 10k time at 58 minutes ( Read more... )

I didn't do any sandbagging during the 1997 Flood. I can't recall why; I was probably a lazy slacker. Anyway, there was a call for sandbagging volunteers again this year so I decided to offer my services ( Read more... )

This week's long run was 19k and once again I was little nervous about it. And then Friday evening I kind of felt like I was coming down with a bit of a cold and when I woke up my legs were feeling tired and a bit sore. So I went out expecting it to be a slog but it went quite well! There was no point where I felt like a wanted to stop running ( Read more... )

After transferring everything over to my new laptop, I tested a bunch of stuff and one of them was Boxer, the DOS emulator I use sometimes, and that reminded me that I had an in-progress game of Bard's Tale 2 going ( Read more... )