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It’s All Uphill, Both Ways (Visual Trail Run)
I first ran part of the Lafarge 2000 trail two years ago. At the time, I thought it was so named because it was about 2000 meters long. Turns out I was wrong. Last week, I found that this trail is continued a little further down the road. I grabbed my camera and eagerly hit…
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Marguerite Omston Trail Visual Tour
It’s time for another Visual Running Tour. This time, we are heading to Kitchener, Ontario. This is one of 19 access points to The Walter Bean Trail. It is located on Homer Watson Boulevard and is only a few minutes from Highway 401. Running through Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, Woolwich and North Dumfries, the trail provides…
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Stoney Creek of the Thames Visual Tour
I love finding new places and trails to run. I also like taking my camera along with me and snapping a few photos as I go. This way I can document the trails that I have run and give you a little tour of some nice spots you might like to visit. Today’s Visual Running…
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My Love of Running and No I Didn’t Take That Photo (aka Giving Credit Where It is Due)
I love running. I think I always have. I remember being on a soccer team when I was very young. This was a non-competitive house league team. We wanted to win, of course, but the coaches always imparted on us the lesson of playing our best game, having fun, and showing sportmanship. I don’t know…
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Medway Valley Visual Tour
It’s time for the very first Visual Running Tour of 2011! Medway Valley Heritage Forest is located in London, Ontario and covers 95 hectares. There are 9 kilometers of trails that hook up to a few other short trail systems in the northern part of the city. For my run today, I covered about five…
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Battle Scars
Remember what my skateboard looked like two weeks ago when I first bought it? Here it is after some March Break skating. It’s normal for your skateboard to get a bit scratched and banged up after only a few rides. They are built to take some major punishment. You can see that I’ve scraped some…
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Proud to Shred
Here is my new skateboard. It’s an Alien Workshop deck with matching wheels. The trucks are Hornet Reflex. Skateboards have changed a bit since I bought my last board. It’s hard to see what I mean until I put both boards beside each other. As you can see my old wheels are a lot…
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A Proud Goofy Foot
Image via Wikipedia When I first started skateboarding, I really didn’t know much about the sport. We didn’t have the X-games. Skateboarding wasn’t covered by television stations. Skateboarding magazines weren’t popular or readily accessible to me. Video cameras weren’t in everyone’s home at this point either. Needless to say, I didn’t have many idols, or…
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Coldstream Conservation Area (Visual Tour)
Time for another Visual Running Tour. This time I hit up Coldstream Conservation Area in Ilderton, Ontario. It’s always nice to see a map at the start of a trail. I don’t understand why this is called a beach area. How can you have a beach area when there is no swimming allowed? Is it…
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Visual Tour of The Dundas Valley Trail
I love exploring new places to run and bringing my camera along with me for the trek. This time I decided to go to Ancaster and run along parts of the Dundas Valley. I hope you enjoy this visual tour of my trail run. I started off walking. I was just getting my camera strap adjusted…