It’s the first weekend in March, 2010 and I believe numerous groundhogs (people actually) came out of their holes and saw their shadows for the first time today. Apparently many of the groundhogs felt it was wise and perhaps safer to enjoy their shadows in [...]
Another Wednesday, another hike. I guess that makes it sound more chore-like than I intended. It’s no chore, it’s fun, it’s dark, it’s sometimes muddy, it’s all good. Since my first hike along the Colquitz River a couple months ago, I’ve been thinking that I [...]
Apparently, occasionally looking at my sparsely populated Running blog category is sometimes enough to motivate me to go for a run. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, but whatever works is fine by me. Tonight I headed into the wilderness of Oak Bay [...]
Ermmm, hangin out with the ladies at the cemetery is good? Defying all logic for a Canadian, I chose to turn off the gold medal Canada – U.S. mens hockey game part way through to go on a Black History Month cemetery tour with Michelle [...]
Not surprisingly there were fewer bodies out on the Wednesday night hike this week. The cause… Olympics. I suppose I could have been busy attending the Vancouver Olympics this week and last, but alas I made the choice to observe from afar. For me, as [...]
What an awesome day for 100km of rolling around on a bike. Sunny and warm after a bit of a cool morning. After some night road rides earlier in the week on my somewhat beastly winter bike, it felt great to be out in the [...]
I’ve been lost… lost in Olympic TV watching purgatory. I can hardly believe I found the strength to get out for the Wednesday night hike. Tonight the destination was Thetis Lake. I guess I better set the record straight since my lack of blog activity [...]
Where will we wander Wednesday? Wow, that’s a whole sentence with words starting with the letter W. If this were Sesame Street there would be a song to go along with this wonder of a sentence. Every Monday or Tuesday, this w-loaded question bounces around [...]
Today Michelle and I checked out a new-to-us, albeit short, hike on the north side of the Tod Inlet on the Saanich Peninsula. The route runs very close to the property of the famed Butchart Gardens (a place I have never been, but have heard [...]
Hump day to some, hike day to others. Wednesday night hikes have become a part of my weekly schedule and I’ll be honest, I look forward to them every week. It’s an opportunity to go exploring, take a mental break from the work week, and [...]
It’s been a damn long time since I’ve done anything on the snow. Ok, it hasn’t been been forever, but two years is a long time to me. Add to that some pretty sporadic snow excursions going back to about 2003 due to school, and [...]
I think I have thought on occasion over the past month or two, that I was surprised at the lack of mud on some of the trails I have been hiking and running on around Victoria. Mud always seems to be lurking somewhere on Vancouver [...]
I tend to get bored of doing some things over and over again. In a way this contradicts the fundamental notion of training for let’s say cycling since you kind of have to have a routine down. Within the realm of bike riding though, depending [...]
It’s Friday, hence it’s time for my weekend warrior activities to commence. This week has been a little bit busy with other things in life so not much running or anything else for that matter, but in true weekend warrior fashion I will try and [...]
Wednesday night hiking is good. This week I did a loop around the base of Mt. Doug(las) with my work friends and some non-work friends. Hiking at night lacks the kind of sensory input associated with hiking in the daylight, but regardless, it is still [...]
Well what do you know, another Saanich road bike ride today. I check the weather forecasts pretty frequently before rides to try and get a sense of that I might be in for in terms of rain and wind. I tend not to put too [...]
I’m getting into my 2010 bike riding with a different mindset than in the the past few years. The most significant difference is the fact that I am now done my most recent round of education, which was a major impediment to a consistent season [...]
I think I might be part vampire. This afternoon I went for a run in the sun, but felt like the energy was being, or had been, sucked out of me. I came to the logical conclusion that since I have felt better on previous [...]
What did you do tonight? Ate some food, watched some TV, read a book, played scrabble? I suppose the list of options is just about endless. As has been the case for many previous Wednesday nights, I went out for a hike, this time at [...]
It’s almost hump day, also known as Wednesday. Tonight I went out for an 8.5km run pretty close to home, namely UVic and Uplands. There were actually quite a few other runners out there, bike commuters too, but they don’t count. I’m not sure, but [...]
I’m not overly set on sticking to a day-by-day plan, but I think I told myself not to long ago that I would try and get out on a bike at least three days a week in the coming months. In saying this I’m really [...]
I seem to recall days like today when I was riding more regularly — character building days. Maybe not character building, but rather tolerance building in terms of my comfort level with rain, headwinds, etc. I was hoping today wouldn’t be this sort of ride, [...]
Thursdays are supposed to be the ‘go-hard’ days if you are a serious athlete aren’t they? Maybe it’s Tuesday. Whatever. Today I did a run on what I have just decided shall be called the ‘Big Sperm Route’. Interestingly this terminology need not apply to [...]
Our Wednesday night hike this week started near the intersection of West Saanich Road and Interurban Road. We headed south through Viaduct Flats (home of Glendale Gardens and a bird sanctuary of sorts), then we made our way through forest and fields while skirting Vancouver [...]
No bike ride today . Meh, that’s ok. Michelle and I met up with Kari for a hike/run from Caleb Pike Road up to/through Gowlland Tod Park and it was good. Before I go any further, where the hell did all the people come [...]
Cool! Another road ride today. I still feel like a slug — slow and slimy. Maybe slimy is a bit inappropriate, but I did manage to get pretty sweaty today; I might have been a bit overdressed. Whatever, it wasn’t raining while I was out [...]
Here we go, 2010 has arrived. Since I wasn’t battling a hangover this morning (note: this never happens to me anyway), I headed out on the road bike. I suppose this could have been one of those “best of the 00’s” blog posts that you [...]
This week’s Wednesday Night Hike at Rithet’s Bog was the last of 2009. Before yesterday I had not ever done the Rithet’s Bog loop and as other new-to-me hikes tend to go, this one was pretty good. In case you’re a bit confused, since yesterday [...]
Pedal power! If you read my last post you might recall my complaining about finding some strength to get out and do something more useful than watching the tube. Not only did I get out and do something useful today, but I also managed to [...]
Another hike today. This time around the hood, namely UVic, Uplands, and Willows Beach. It has occurred to me lately that I have been doing a reasonable amount of hiking, but not much else aside from work and other stuff. With Spring around the corner [...]
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