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Tag: General Running and/or Fitness
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]
May 17, 2013
Happy Retirement to Me!
No no! I’m not leaving my job as an electrical engineer. I love my day job and can see myself happily working here until I retire. I am announcing my retirement from being a marathon clinic instructor. I’ve had a great time with the Square One Running Room. In the fall of 2011 I started as a half-marathon clinic instructor with Dino DiBernardo. The goal race for that clinic was the Chilly Half-Marathon 2012. Dino transferred to full-marathon clinic instructor in early 2012 so I had that group mostly to myself. And through someone leaving, I picked up another[…continue reading]
May 10, 2013
Cheering On The Mississauga Marathon!
This was a new experience for me: On Sunday, May 5 I was a spectator for a Marathon, the Mississauga Marathon and half-marathon. With all the build-up and training everyone else is doing, it was hard not to be frustrated that I was unable to do this race. But, being injured as I was, withdrawing from this race and not being a pacer was preferable to further injury and/or a pacing failure like Chilly. The whole photoset is available here (big file, 192 MB)! In preparation for this “race” I think I looked at the maps more carefully than even if I[…continue reading]
