Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I swear I was about to run through a rainbow today. There it was, just ahead of me, spanning from the North Shore across the Burrard Inlet and just to the right side of the trail I was running on. It was only about 500 metres away, tops. The colours ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
I did it! As I mentioned previously, this past week was my last chance to get my act together for the Vancouver marathon 2010. It was a rest week, with 3 short runs, culminating with today's 3 hour and 51 minute trial! That's right—almost 4 hours of non-stop running. I ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Before I finish the story of my trip to California and the medicine walk I took, I want to tell you about the chi running workshop I went to last weekend. Angela James taught the workshop. She is the only certified chi running trainer in Vancouver. Danny and Katherine Dryer ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
I was driving over the Second Narrows bridge tonight, feeling high from a run by and skinny dip in the Seymour River. It was dusk, but the street lights hadn't come on yet on the north side of the bridge. I was groovin' on Led Zeppelin, as I am wont ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
The absolute best thing about Monkey Valley is running with the bears. (The worst thing is the cell reception, but I won't go into that now.) It has not happened often that I've had the chance to run with bears here—only a few times in nine years—but it happened today.
I ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
One of the coolest things I did in Berlin was go for a run along the Berlin Wall. Kirsten lives in East Berlin, so I ran west along Pariser Kommune Allee until I came to Muhlenstrasse, and there it was! The Berlin Wall! How cool is that! To go for a ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
I approached the theatre and saw there were posters along the wall at street-level, with the movie theatre entrance up a flight of stairs and the theatre towering several stories above that. The posters showed Australia—a Nicole Kidman pic whose posters I'd seen everywhere, including Amsterdam, Prague, and Berlin. Very ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
I arrived in Berlin about 10 PM (after travelling 22 hours), and spent a lot of the next day sleeping. It was dark by the time I was ready for my first run, at about 5 PM. So my first run in Berlin was after dark, with the temperature around ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
On a vision fast last year I claimed my big, wild woman self.
But desert ritual is just the beginning of integrating a new identity that goes counter to the training to be my parents’ obedient, pretty girl, smiling for the camera. And counter to our society’s messages about what women ...
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