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Category: General Running and/or Fitness
March 24, 2014
Around The Bay Goals
The 120th Anniversary of the Around The Bay 30k in Hamilton is coming this Sunday! This will be my 4th time running it (also see my 2012 and 2013 race reports). There are some changes this year: The course has changed to avoid a repeat of last year’s ‘train delay’. There are great posts by Kenny Yum and Emma Iserman describing the modified course. Copps Coliseum has been renamed the FirstOntario Centre. I expect everyone will still call it Copps Coliseum for a while. There will be no baggage check this year! Really? I understand the security concern, but… In[…continue reading]
March 16, 2014
Fundraising for Trillium Health Partners
I’m running the Mississauga Half-Marathon on May 4 as a fundraiser for the Trillium Health Partners Foundation. Click here to donate now! Some of you may remember that I had a very similar fundraising campaign in 2012, where I ran the Mississauga Half-Marathon as a fundraiser for the Trillium Health Centre. It’s a charity that is very near and dear to my heart. Now that the Trillium Health Centre has merged with Credit Valley Hospital, I’m fundraising for its current iteration: Trillium Health Partners! Trillium Health Partners is the amalgamation of the former Queensway Health Centre (formerly Queensway General Hospital),[…continue reading]
March 14, 2014
Mississauga Runners on the Roads
It has been a challenging winter for runners. It has been dark, windy, snowy, icy, and downright cold. In my area of Mississauga, sidewalks have also been very treacherous. Ground conditions are usually an unpleasant mix of snow, slush, partially re-frozen slush, and ice (see Exhibit A below). And it often seems that the City of Mississauga crews don’t clear the sidewalks and bike paths by the time we get out to run, especially on Sunday mornings. As a result of the weather, we may have run on the road. When sidewalks are icy, snowy, slushy, or something in between, a[…continue reading]
