TC10K

Against our better judgement we ran the TC10K. The TC10K is a relatively popular 10 KM race held in Victoria. This year about 13000 people decided to participate. Some Kenyan dude training out of Lethbridge won the thing in under 30 minutes. The man could run! I saw him very briefly while I was at kilometer 2 and he was at kilometer 5. His cool-down was running the 10 km again, in the opposite direction.

Veronica ran a total of 9 kilometers over three separate days to train for her big race. This would normally spell TROUBLE but... She ran the entire race in 1:03:07 and beat two of my friends that had been training for 3 months. This obviously doesn't teach her a lesson about regular training and fitness, unless her legs really hurt tomorrow. I can only hope... (I'm thinking nice thoughts, but I bet you thought otherwise, tsk.)

I ran the thing in 50:09 which sounds good until you find out that this time put me in 1568th place. I've redefined a Canada-bronze (where 3rd is like gold). In my case, 1568th place is like ... gold plated. To quote my cousin: "Good enough, [it]'ll do".

For the bored, the complete results can be found here:
http://www.raceheadquarters.com/tc.php

Energy consumption

I had this link sent to me:
http://blog.wattzon.com/2008/11/14/scarcity-and-abundance/

It's worth a look. It places our energy consumption in a new perspective.

Mini-Vacation in Tofino

Veronica and I went to Ucluelet/Tofino over the weekend. We visited some large trees...