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Tag: General Running and/or Fitness
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]
March 3, 2014
Chilly Half-Marathon Photo Spam
I will post a proper race report for my great adventure at the Chilly Half-Marathon yesterday soon. For now, here’s a whole bunch of photos from the time up to, around, right before, and just after the race! As always, click on any photo for a larger version. Last week of training: Carb-Loading Dinner Friday night at Peter’s On Eglinton: (to be fair, I was even still hungry after that dinner and I went home and had popcorn…) Before the Race After the Race
