Sunday Night in Vancouver: Off The Schnide
Jon Walk's 7-game hitting streak has been ... oops, this is running. Not baseball.
Do over! This is cyberspace. We can do anything we want, right? How about this?
Jon Walk's 7-day runless streak after the Fiesta de Albuquerque Marathon was snapped Sunday evening when the 39-year-old barely kept it from getting to eight just an hour and a half before the end of the day by logging a run of 1:43:43 into early Monday morning.
Walk said the run, which included running half way around Stanley Park (to Lions Gate Bridge from the west) before having to turn back around because the seawall was closed at that point, was one of the more relaxing and refreshing runs he's done in quite some time.
"I'm not one that bonds with nature or the environment too much," said Walk. "But English Bay (which heads out into the Strait of Georgia) was very calm and the lights of West Vancouver and the Lions Gate Bridge made a good bit of the run very relaxing and peaceful.
"I've been told it's not wise to run in Stanley Park at night. However, I didn't feel that unsafe during any part of the run there.
"I wanted to just run for time this evening and not worry about the miles. I had been down most of the week and especially over the weekend despite being here in a beautiful part of the world where the weather is still great for running.
"It's tough being gone from home and people I think don't realize how much it tends to sap some of the mental energy necessary; however, this was a much needed run to push me on to where I need to be."
Because of the curvatures around Stanley Park, measuring the distance he said would be a "crap shoot" at best. Estimating a pace between 10:45 and 11 minutes per mile, which included inclines in the last mile to finish off the run, Walk said that he'll count this one as 9.5 miles.
Good enough, he said, to get back in the game despite still having some tenderness over the major muscle that runs down the front of the right foot from the lower leg.
Brooks Beast (B7, not a model just the 7th pair) mileage: 38.9 miles.
(Run notes: From Hornby and Howe, down Hornby to Beach, Beach east to the bridge, turnaround, take Beach all the way to Stanley Park and around, along the seawall, to just past Lions Gate Bridge. Returned back to Beach and Denman, took a left going north to West Georgia, right to Thurlow, left on Alberni and right on Burrard back to Howe.)
Do over! This is cyberspace. We can do anything we want, right? How about this?
Jon Walk's 7-day runless streak after the Fiesta de Albuquerque Marathon was snapped Sunday evening when the 39-year-old barely kept it from getting to eight just an hour and a half before the end of the day by logging a run of 1:43:43 into early Monday morning.
Walk said the run, which included running half way around Stanley Park (to Lions Gate Bridge from the west) before having to turn back around because the seawall was closed at that point, was one of the more relaxing and refreshing runs he's done in quite some time.
"I'm not one that bonds with nature or the environment too much," said Walk. "But English Bay (which heads out into the Strait of Georgia) was very calm and the lights of West Vancouver and the Lions Gate Bridge made a good bit of the run very relaxing and peaceful.
"I've been told it's not wise to run in Stanley Park at night. However, I didn't feel that unsafe during any part of the run there.
"I wanted to just run for time this evening and not worry about the miles. I had been down most of the week and especially over the weekend despite being here in a beautiful part of the world where the weather is still great for running.
"It's tough being gone from home and people I think don't realize how much it tends to sap some of the mental energy necessary; however, this was a much needed run to push me on to where I need to be."
Because of the curvatures around Stanley Park, measuring the distance he said would be a "crap shoot" at best. Estimating a pace between 10:45 and 11 minutes per mile, which included inclines in the last mile to finish off the run, Walk said that he'll count this one as 9.5 miles.
Good enough, he said, to get back in the game despite still having some tenderness over the major muscle that runs down the front of the right foot from the lower leg.
Brooks Beast (B7, not a model just the 7th pair) mileage: 38.9 miles.
(Run notes: From Hornby and Howe, down Hornby to Beach, Beach east to the bridge, turnaround, take Beach all the way to Stanley Park and around, along the seawall, to just past Lions Gate Bridge. Returned back to Beach and Denman, took a left going north to West Georgia, right to Thurlow, left on Alberni and right on Burrard back to Howe.)
posted by WalkSports.com | 3:11 AM
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nice story. Where's the dateline? And byline?
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