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Author: Paul Radcliffe
May 31, 2013
Baby Steps
It’s been a week since I declared I was jumping back into training. Following Macnic’s advice, I’m taking baby steps. In this post I’ll detail what I’ve accomplished in a week. Weak Week Progress I was a little discouraged when I went for a run on Sunday afternoon. My right leg seems to be back to normal, but my left leg still has the tarsal tunnel symptoms. I was pretty discouraged about that. With the nicer weather I see lots of runners out, and I feel pangs of guilt and jealousy when I see them. My chiropractor put a different[…continue reading]
May 28, 2013
Sporting Life 10k Mess Sparks Runner’s Revolution!
I did not run the Sporting Life 10k this year. However, I have heard A LOT about this race, and it’s almost entirely negative. Unless they finished under 50 minutes, everyone I talked to HATED this race. The biggest problem I’m told was that there were problems at the finish line. But such negatives can be made into positives: Greater Toronto Area (GTA) runners can choose which races they want to support based on past performance, and the local running community is standing up for what they want! Although the race organization seems to have been lacking, I want to[…continue reading]
May 27, 2013
Lots of Running in Star Trek Into Darkness
Of course I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness. I’m a huge Star Trek fan. After about a week of letting it digest, I just realized that the characters did a lot of running in this movie. Like, an AWFUL LOT of running. They could marketed the movie as “Starfleet Academy’s Cross Country Team.” I think I can talk about this with giving away any spoilers. You’d think that in a Sci-fi movie they’d spend all their time sitting in their spaceships as they float around space. But they spend a ridiculous amount of time sprinting and running. The[…continue reading]
