Running on my Ottawa mini-vacation

It’s Monday afternoon and I have just returned from my extended weekend in Ottawa.
This isn’t going to be much of a blog post, but I took some photos with my phone while running that I thought I would share on here.

Friday morning – Ran to Mud Lake, then in the trails at Mud Lake, and then back to my sister’s house. Total distance: just under 9.5 miles (just over 15 km)

Mud Lake

Saturday morning – I rode my nephew’s bike to some cross country ski trails in Nepean. The ride was 5.6 miles there, then a 5 mile run, then 6.1 mile ride back (took a couple wrong turns :P)

Ottawa River
 

 

Sunday morning – I ran from my sister’s house to the local Running Room where I had asked the day before how far their groups would be going. I was told 19km, so I thought this would be okay with a bit of a run before and after.

The group run was similar to what I was planning to run on my own, except they had a loop planned and I had an out and back. My route would have been Ottawa River to Rideau Canal to Dows lake and back, but what we did was ran over to Dows Lake, then along the canal to the river, and followed the river back to Westboro.

The total distance I covered that morning was 16.5 miles (26.5 km) and I also got a 20ish minute swim in. I love swimming after running. In this case it was a swim between runs… it was a bit difficult to get going again after being in the water, but I managed to get back to my sister’s house. :)

Inukshuks on the Ottawa River
 

Westboro Beach (where I swam) – It was actually sunnyish when I was in the water, but then clouded over soon after.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these photos.

A photo update

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It is now February 8th and I wrote a good chunk of the below last week. Instead of changing it, I thought I’d just add this wee blurb to the top so you know why the actual post starts out with info that is no longer true since I posted something yesterday.

Today is essentially a snow day due to the piles and piles of snow we received overnight and are still getting now as I type. I am working from home today, but there are some system issues due to the number of people on VPN. I doubt I’ll run later, but it could be kinda fun in the snow… who knows. I am planning on a trail run tomorrow morning with some people through meetup.com. It could be interesting with all of the snow.

Instead of this post being an update all the way up to now, I think I’ll do it in chunks. Today will be December only. Next time, I will include January and the first weekend of February.

I will try to update the blog on a much more regular basis going forward. Life got crazy and the blogging got pushed aside. Life isn’t exactly “normal” now, but I will blog. :)
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I realize that it’s been quite a while since I last published a blog post. So… instead of trying to think of a bunch of things to write about, I will post a bunch of photos that I took on the runs between my last blog post and now. I will include short blurbs about the runs along with the pictures so that you know what they are about and when they were taking. This should bring you up to speed on my running. I will try to be better at posting from here on in.

December 1st: The Santa Pur-Suit:
As you may recall, I ran in the santa suit with Jordan previously, to promote the event. On actual race day, I got to see my friend Paul and also my mom, who both ran the race as well.

 

December 8th: Saturday morning run with Ron (Runners’ Choice)
I met up with Ron and some other runners in Cambridge. After the group was finished their run, I went back out for another out and back and took some photos on the way.

 

December 15th: Kissing Bridge Trailway, West Montrose. This is a very well marked flat rail trail.

     

I was going to keep going with December, but there are a bunch more photos that I want to share and this post is already crammed full of photos, so I will stop here and start at December 16th in the next post.

I hope you’ve enjoyed some views from the run, even though they are old.