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Yesterday's run route and time

Yesterday's run route
In Pacific Spirit Park, start at Sasamat Reservoir, south on Sasamat, right at Council, right at Salish, left at Sword Fern, left at Long, left at Salish, left at Council, left at Sword Fern, left at Long, left at Sasamat, end at Sasamat Reservoir.
Yesterday's run time
49 minutes 35 seconds

NHL playoffs shakeup

I came across an interesting idea in a recent Georgia Straight article regarding NHL playoffs in future years. Here's an excerpt:

The top finishers in each conference get to select from the lower-ranking qualifiers in the first round only. In the NHL's case, let the three division winners in each conference pick from the teams that round out the playoff field. The first-place team would get to choose from the teams finishing fifth through eighth. The second-place finisher would then pick from the remaining teams, and the third-place team would be left with two teams to choose from. The fourth-place finisher—not a division winner—would still get home-ice advantage in the opening round and would face whichever team was not selected by the three teams that earned the right to choose.

Read the whole article by clicking here and then let me know what you think by sparking the glow under this post. I'm all for the changes suggested, for the reasons found in the article.

Today's run route
In Pacific Spirit Park, start at Sasamat Reservoir, south on Sasamat, right at Council, right at Salish, left at Sword Fern, left at Long, left at Salish, left at Council, left at Sword Fern, left at Long, left at Sasamat, end at Sasamat Reservoir.
Today's run time
50 minutes 38 seconds

Bendy Biscotti

Lucas popped out of Biscotti on February 5. Eight and a half weeks after that momentous occasion Biscotti went snowshoeing for the first time since last March. She summited Hollyburn Peak in just under an hour and twenty minutes, and she celebrated that athletic feat with another athletic feat:

Today's run route and time

Today's run route
In Pacific Spirit Park, start at Sasamat Reservoir, south on Sasamat, right at Council, left at Sword Fern, left at Long, left at Salish, right at Council, left at Sasamat, end at Sasamat Reservoir.
Today's run time
35 minutes 51 seconds

Today's run route and time

Today's run route
In Pacific Spirit Park, start at Sasamat Reservoir, south on Sasamat, right at Huckleberry, right at Hemlock, right at Salish, left at Sword Fern, left at Imperial, right at Salish, left at Clinton, left at Sasamat, end at Sasamat & Imperial.
Today's run time
47 minutes 31 seconds

1 PHOTO. 3 WORDS. 365 DAYS...

... is a cool blog established on a great idea.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

05:44 - Wake up.
06:12 - Leave the house, and put gear and dogs in Tracker.
06:38 - Take Cypress exit off the highway; learn that the road up is closed until 07:00. D'oh.
07:01 - Stop at Cypress road viewpoint to take pictures.
07:20 - Begin snowshoeing.
08:23 - Reach the peak! There's no wind and it's sunny and clear. Nobody else around.
09:26 - While descending, see first person since Cypress road viewpoint.
09:55 - Return to car.
10:34 - Pull into carport at home.

A week later - upload 97 photos and 3 videos to a flickr set.

Here's one pic. Click it to enlarge it.

Silent nights

Our home stereo gets used mostly for movie-watching sound, and sometimes I listen to talk radio. We rarely use it for listening to CDs anymore. Proof: I just opened the three-disc changer to see what was readily available for my hearing pleasure and found one spot empty and the other two spots each containing a Christmas CD. I closed the changer, turned off the stereo and opened up the Said the Whale folder on the computer.

Today's run route and time

Today's run route
In Pacific Spirit Park (on snowy trails!), start at Sasamat & Top, south on Sasamat, right at Council, left at Sword Fern, left at Long, left at Salish, left at Sword Fern, left at Council, left at Sasamat, end at Sasamat Reservoir.
Today's run time
50 minutes 36 seconds