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The forecast for today was calling for partly cloudy with a high around 20, so I figured I would run in the late afternoon instead of my usual early evening time. As it turned out, the clouds were all around the edges of the city with blue sky directly overhead. The sun blazed down on [...]
It was rather warm today and even by 7 p.m. when I headed out for my run it was still about 25ºC, although the sky was hazy. A moderate breeze was blowing. By the end of the run it had cooled a bit, down to around 22ºC. The first km was my best yet since [...]
With a number of activities on tap for the evening and not wanting to fall behind on my running schedule I decided to do a rare morning run today, starting out just before 11 a.m. The temperature was around 20ºC when I started and creeping past 24ºC by the time I finished less than an [...]
Hot = temperature (30ºC) Doubles = two baseball games in progress Run = what I tried to do today! It seems the weather decided to skip the usual intro to summer with seasonal temperatures and jumped straight into the heat wave part. With the thermometer reporting 30ºC I headed down to China Creek Park at [...]
Weather-wise June can be a tad unpredictable. Any day could be sunny and warm or cool and showery. It’s no gauge of how the overall summer will be. Come July you can usually tell if you’re in for a stinker or not. Today summer officially arrived in Vancouver: The official forecast calls a high of [...]
August 2nd, to be specific. But more August activities in another update. Here’s a quick rundown (geddit?) of Week 7: Redux of my jogging. I restarted Week 7 — a straight 25-minute run — on Monday. I switched from late afternoon to early evening as we were still in the middle of a fierce heatwave. [...]
This past Wednesday I was in the middle of Week 6 of my jogging plan, a pair of 10-minute runs with a three minute walk between. The 10-minute runs are a little over three complete laps. On the second run I’m motoring along and notice about four girls at the little playground near the northern [...]