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Category Archives: Running
Not being able to run is unbearable!
That was true in 1984—an Olympic year, 40 years ago! Can it still be true today? It shouldn’t be, so I put the exclamation mark in my title to mock myself. Today I’ve been thinking about one of the worse … Continue reading →
Posted in Injuries and Getting Older, Personal stories, Running
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Tagged 1984 Olympic Trials, 1984 Olympics, 1984 Women's Olympic Marathon
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New Year’s 2024: My Life in Decades
Preamble: Reflections on becoming a “senior” At the start of a new year many people like to reflect on their achievements or significant events of the past year. This year, I had the urge to write a sweeping summary of … Continue reading →
Posted in Injuries and Getting Older, Personal stories, Running
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Tagged Greyhounds Masters Track & Field Club, life stories, New Year, senior
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Rookie of the Year Award
I’ve just won a “Rookie of the Year” award from the Greyhounds Masters Track and Field Club, the running club I joined in July. I also received a Canadian Masters bronze medal (belatedly) for my performance in the W60-64 800m … Continue reading →
Posted in Injuries and Getting Older, Personal stories, Racing, Running
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Tagged Greyhounds, Greyhounds Masters Track and Field Club, moving
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My summer ends with a bang—AND a whimper*
My summer of 2023 was extraordinary, with new events, returns to the old, and losses—a time of change. The bang was going to “the cabin” at Birkenhead Lake, a place where my partner Keith spends a lot of time because … Continue reading →
Posted in editing, Injuries and Getting Older, Personal stories, Racing, Running, Seasons, Vancouver events and entertainment
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Tagged As You Like It, Bard on the Beach, Bears, Birkenhead Lake, Canadian Masters Track & Field Championships, Greyhounds Track & Field club, kidney disease, Sasamat Lake, The Hollow Men, track racing
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Sasamat Lake mini-triathlon 10th edition—as West Kelowna burns
In 2013, a year after I moved to my downtown Port Moody apartment, I created a physical challenge for myself that took advantage of my neighbourhood bike path and Sasamat Lake, only 8 kilometres away. Every year since then except … Continue reading →
August at the track in 1988, 2008, and 2023
Introduction: August in Vancouver Today was a quintessentially perfect August Vancouver day. Sunny and cool (13⁰ C) at 6:00 a.m. but warming up to 28⁰ C by late afternoon. The weather reminded me how much I loved training in Vancouver … Continue reading →
Posted in Injuries and Getting Older, Personal stories, Racing, Running, Seasons
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Tagged 1500m, 1988 Olympics, 800m, Dave Reed, George Gluppe, Greyhounds Masters Track & Field Club, Kim Ross, masters running, track running, training for Olympics, USATF Masters Championships, Warren McCulloch
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A perfect Canada Day
The thing I love most about holidays is waking up early, knowing—and hearing—that almost no one else is awake yet. And Canada Day has to rank right up there as the best possible holiday, because it is a summer holiday! … Continue reading →
Posted in Injuries and Getting Older, Personal stories, Running, Vignettes
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Tagged Canada Day, holidays, running in Mundy Park, Swim races at Sasamat Lake
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The worst run of my life
I’ve been running for nearly half a century, so to say that I recently did a run that probably qualifies as “the worst run of my life” is really saying something. I caught a cold from Keith. He had a … Continue reading →
Posted in Personal stories, Running, Vignettes
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Tagged Coquitlam Crunch, running while sick
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Mini-triathlon 2021 during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
I haven’t run a real race since the Longest Day 5K of June 2019. Yet I still like to challenge myself, and every summer since 2013, I’ve insisted on completing my own mini-triathlon course, starting in downtown Port Moody. I … Continue reading →
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An anti-retirement rant
A week ago, at the end of a 3-hour Zoom meeting with my co-editors, I felt a strange mixture of relief and sadness. I knew that we had just finished the last meeting when we would be writing and editing … Continue reading →