Haile Gebrselassie wins in Dubai in 2:06:09 The Dubai Marathon was offering $1 million if Haile could break his own world record of 2:03:59. However, the pace wasn’t fast enough this time – he reached the halfway point in 1:02:51. Although Gebrselassie did not break the record, and he won again. 2:06:09 is pretty good [...]
So, after a 6 day complete rest, I went for a 45 minute run on Sunday with Ian. The plan was to rest the calf and achilles tendon completely, so that the area could heal up better. Well, not a very successful experiment. I felt the pain the achilles and/or calf halfway through the run. [...]
I looked through some photos on my computer today, and I found some inspiring shots from the K-100 relay from 2008 and 2009. The K-100 Relay is an amazing relay in Kananaskis country, in the Canadian Rockies. I have run in this relay for the last 5 years, I think. Perhaps it’s 6, I’m not [...]
The local watch repair places I talked to just shook their heads when I showed them the broken mess I had brought with me. However, one place said I could call Timex directly. Great idea, I figured, let’s try it! I called, and of course they were closed for the holidays. Next attempt – let’s [...]
One of the benefits with living in Alberta is that you get to run in variety of weather conditions. In the summer, we have hot days and we all complain about it. Then we have days like most of December 2009, where the quicksilver dipped under -30 quite a few times. Brr. Ahh, the beauty [...]
I went to the Edgeworth Centre indoor track yesterday, and I ran my longest run for a good while, about 10 kilometres. It was my first indoor run this winter. My injured calf muscle has been getting better this last week, but I could definitely tell on this run that it isn’t healed up quite [...]