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May 13, 2013
Run Away from Hospitals
This post is in the spirit of Motivation Monday’s. I’m starting to see more and more often. There are some motivational pieces that are incentives to work harder to achieve health and fitness (yes, pictures of fit women are motivating for guys too). There are other motivation pieces that are designed to scare you away from being sedintary. This post is definitely the latter; it’s much more of a stick than a carrot. I was originally planning to post this on Monday, April 15, but then Boston happened… Running Room founder John Stanton has some common motivational lines that are repeated in[…continue reading]
April 21, 2013
Run through Culham Trail
Another photospam like last Sunday’s post! For any photo, click on it for a larger version. For this Sunday’s run, we merged the Marathon and Half-Marathon clinics together and they did 20km together through the beautiful Culham Trail in Mississauga. There were some very beautiful parts of this route, and if I can ever run again I hope to do it again. Here’s the route if anyone is interested. While cheering them on with a Chilly Half-Marathon cowbell, I also took a lot of photos. Here are some group pictures from before the run: Here are some photos of[…continue reading]
April 18, 2013
How much is too much?
I’m trying to find that fire and motivation that pushed me so hard a couple of seasons ago. But, maybe I shouldn’t try to push so hard. There’s risk in a sedentary lifestyle and inactivity, but I imagine being overactive can be similarly destructive. As I mentioned a long time ago, there seems to be an unrealistic ideal for fitness and body image. And while it’s inspiring to try to look like Superman or Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, such a push can be dangerous. Such external pressure to live up to some ideal can lead to really dangerous things.[…continue reading]
