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Author: Paul Radcliffe
December 25, 2012
Training On A Cruise Ship
Last week I enjoyed a week-long cruise aboard the Caribbean Princess with my family. The ship visited The Bahamas, Curacao and Aruba. While touring on the first day, we went to the gym and I signed up for a boot camp. That was a fantastic decision. I had to pay for the four sessions, but it would be very good to have scheduled classes at an intensity appropriate to my age group. The classes were lead by one of the Fitness Instructors, either Bart Lansbergen from Holland or Andrew Foster from England. They were nice small classes with only[…continue reading]
December 12, 2012
You Win This Round Flu…
I knew this was coming but I didn’t realize how lousy it would feel. I’m in bed, wrapped up in half-a-dozen layers trying to stay warm in a house that I bet already feels like a sauna. A flu got me, and it is all my fault. For the last month, I’ve been doing a lot of rotating shifts for work. That means I would work during the day, then come in at night, maybe get a day off, then go back to either nights or days. This went right through weekends so I lost all concept of day of[…continue reading]
December 10, 2012
Tannenbaum 10k Race Report
Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2012/12/02 Tannenbaum 10k <60:00 58:40 59:21 A couple of weeks ago I ran the Tannebaum 10k in the Toronto Beaches area. I had run the Tannenbaum 10k in 2010 but the course was very different then. I signed up for this race on a whim because I knew some other people from my local Running Room who were going to be doing it too. The race is essentially the home race for the Toronto Beaches Runners Club. I think of them as a pretty intimidating and impressive group. The race has a feel[…continue reading]
