Battles BC is the most ridiculously amazing show. It’s this crazy attempt to make history like the movie 300. I love it!
goose
5 months ago
18/100 for Youtube videos (link seems broken; had to Google it). Verdict: “you’ve heard of the existence of the internets, but you’re a pretty green noob at them still”.
canucklehead
5 months ago
Du bist Kanadian untermenschen! Keine iTelefon Apps fur sie! iTelefon Apps ist nur fur wahr a(me)ri(cani)sch peppelz!
canucklehead
5 months ago
This attack on harmless, helpless and ultimately cute (if useless) urban hipsters by the mean arrogant roadie is reprehensible. Please donate generously to the Society for Hipster Ideal Transportation Solution to help prevent such attacks in the future and sustain the delicate balance of urban ecosystems. If measures are not taken to preserve the hipsters in their pristine environment, they may mutate into various invasive and damaging species, from yuppies (workaholized hipsters) to gangstas (criminalized hipsters) to the so-called “performance” jocks. The last one is a particularly dangerous sort of mutation, in which the hipster’s locomotion system (informally referred to as “fixie”) grows a cluster of several gears. In the worst-case scenario, the natural hipster’s coat may also undergo a shocking change: tight jeans, plaid shirts and old-school sneakers are replaced by distinctly alien neon-coloured lycra attire and clickety shoes. An ugly mushroom-shaped growth often appears on the head.
It may at first be perceieved as a positive development that gives hipsters an evolutionary advantage, allowing them to travel further and faster. However, this inevitably leads to the expansion of the mutated hipsters areal: from the selected hotspots in the downtown core to at least midtown and often beyond. Such radical expansion may lead to the collapse of midtown and inner suburbs. In extreme cases, these dangerous mutants may even travel well beyond the urban and suburban limits, and are sometimes seen (typically in packs) on country roads.
Help preserve the urban hipster for our children and grandchildren! Call 1-800-12S-HITS today to find out how YOUR money can save this majestic animal (yes, we DO take PayPal).
18/100? You still have so many ‘great’ hits to watch!
Kasia
5 months ago
I have often fantasized about eating these again. Helen made these for a bunch of us when we were in high school. They were amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Nicholas
5 months ago
Yeah, they’re great. I’ve used the same recipe for waffles too. If you seperate the eggs, beat the egg whites and then fold them into the batter you can make nice fluffy waffles.
Nicholas
5 months ago
Can’t wait to do some situps now!
goose
5 months ago
I’ve just seen them. Glad it was packed into 4 minutes. I don’t need any more of that. (Well, some of those videos are pretty awesome, true…)
I’ve run two marathons in the space of a month. The first was for myself, the second to help someone run their first. It helps to have a plan for how to approach each run. For example, is the first one a qualifier and the second one a potential make up run? If so, train hard for the first, and have a plan to make adjustments between races. If the second race is the important one, use the first one as a workout and a way of figuring out what you need to improve between races.
Have fun!
Jodie
5 months ago
Thanks for your input, Bernie: you’re right – having a clear idea what you want to achieve with each run is an important to the whole goal-setting process. In my case, the Okanagan Half this Sunday is to see where I stand (i.e. if I’m still running a 1:40:00 Half with very little training since May) and I will adjust my training plan accordingly. The next Half is playing for keeps – I will want to hit my target time, whatever that will be based on this Half’s performance.
Anyone else with back-to-back runs want to share their goal-setting process?
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goose
4 months ago
Hey, I recognize that couch! And that painting! And that tall young man!
Jodie
4 months ago
Doesn’t it make you want to come over and play Wii Fit with us?!
goose
4 months ago
Well, I don’t think YOU have anything to worry about. I would estimate that you spend at least 10 hours a day engaging in “moderate to vigorous exercise”, which is in a class of its own. And really, 2.5 hours a week is all that’s required now to qualify as “active”? That’s a little pathetic.
I am also a bit suspicious of the article in general. By how much is the risk increased? And is it really the “sedentary time” that’s to blame, or simply less active time (by definition, anyone who’s engaged in more sedentary time, has less active time). Perhaps it is fine to spend long periods of time sedentary as long as you also spend a lot of time exercising (and not the measly 2.5 hours). I’m not saying sedentary behaviour is not harmful on its own – it well may be – but one needs to read the study to know if they really showed that.
And then this quote: “Active individuals … who spend long periods of time being sedentary, exhibit increased risk of [bad things happening] when compared with individuals who do not exhibit less sedentary behavior.”
“Do not exhibit less sedentary behaviour”? That’s a double negative, meaning “exhibit as much or more sedentary behaviour”. In other words, they are saying “active individuals who spend a long time sedentary, are more likely to get sick when compared to individuals who are at least as sedentary”? Somebody in that journal needs a proofreader.
goose
4 months ago
From the article’s abstract: “Analyses were adjusted for … total physical activity time”. Ah, good, at least they did that. Still, I don’t really understand it, because there are only two things that could be happening at any given moment:
1) the individual is engaging in physical activity, or
2) the individual is not engaging in physical activity (i.e., sedentary).
Also, each individual has the same number of hours per day. So, it’s not possible to have two people active for the same amount of time per week AND have one of them spend more time being sedentary. So they may have adjusted for total hours of moderate to vigorous physical activity, rather than total physical activity – but that’s silly, since everyone knows that light physical activity is beneficial as well.
But there is also another possibility. After all, they were NOT measuring total time spent being sedentary. They were measuring total time spent watching TV! Those who spend little time watching TV may have spend lots of time being sedentary in other ways: playing on their computer, or studying etc. So the association is not between health problems and sedentary time. It’s between health problems and watching TV. Big difference.
Here is my hypothesis: people who spend a lot of time watching TV are stupid, unhappy and have no life (I have very low opinion of watching lots of TV… a bit of TV is okay and even good every now and then, cause they do show good stuff sometimes, but lots of TV is practically a clinical sypmtom of stupidity and/or extreme lack of interests in life). And we all know that boredom, disappointment in life and low intelligence lead to poorer health (both directly, because stress caused by overall unhappiness is hard on your body, and through things like poor nutritoin choices, poor exercise choices etc.) These people are also more likely to overstate time they spend exercising per week, because they are embarassed of being such lazy bums and spending their free time on what even they recognize (or at least vaguely feel) is one of the stupidest and saddest activities imaginable.
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Hmmm…. just found out that that ‘tension’ I’m holding in my chest is actually costochondritis [http://www.emedicinehealth.com/costochondritis/article_em.htm] – residual joint pain/inflammation from a bike accident two years ago!
Erica
3 months ago
Great article…LOVE IT!…too bad I read it AFTER the race haha
Glad you had a great race today, Jodie!!
Hey everyone, it’s Thanksgiving Day! I’m happy with my extra day off, and I am planning to doing something fun that’ll probably involve a bike ride and seeing something new in Sunset I haven’t seen yet.
You write new post at Thanksgiving?
Great info… Very useful for the young athlete who is being “sold” supplementation as the only way. Be sure to vet your info, especially if you are going to promote a product. Clean site as well.
Loren
2 months ago
haven’t yet watched the video, but will get to that at some point (no audio on my comp at the mo). That said, the notion of social media having an impact on green solutions is an interesting one to me. Read a book recently that looked at traditional advertising versus referral (as per social media – or the next door neighbour). Not surprisingly, referral was the clear winner for it’s implicit integrity. I get the feeling that’s what social media is all about.
Taking it that extra step, then, promoting/raising awareness of green solutions through social media would seem a very effective way of creating a meaningful (if local to your social ‘followers’ or ‘friends’ or whatever cute term comes out next). But then, if they tell their friends…
Jodie
2 months ago
Thanks for your comment, Loren. The Gregg + Tapscott as well as the the Green Fitness Concept are worth the wait to watch.
I think you’ve just described the real power mechanism behind social media networking – it’s a web of connectivity that is expanding at rapid speeds (faster than fingers flying on a keyboard) and is almost unimaginably broad-reaching. From my experience, this web seems to be most stable when it’s built on on trust, integrity and transparency.
kasia
2 months ago
Okay, all I’ve read is the top quote…but I have a comment about that!
Hmmm…I think it’s interesting that you used a quote from wikipedia about this. On the one hand, wikipedia is exactly what you are writing about — the democratization of knowledge, on the other hand, we’re always warned about never really using wikipedia for anything. Everyone I know uses wikipedia kind of in secret. Don’t know a social theorist that everyone is talking about? Read about him/her on wikipedia for two minutes and I get a sense of their work and feel a little less stupid.
Anyways, that was my first thought. I think the democratization of knowledge links nicely to a lot of the work I want to do, which aims at understanding public knowledge of medicine. I wonder to what extent a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Your writing is good, Jodie!
kasia
2 months ago
Oh, and I see that you talk about power as a web in your comment above — that’s very astute. You should read some Foucault on power if you are more interested in those ideas…
kasia
2 months ago
Holy cow! It’s weird how ColdFX is considered a banned substance — first off, I use it, and I don’t feel that my performance (I’ll count performance as academic performance) has been “enhanced”. Second, wouldn’t athletes be really invested in staying healthy? ColdFX has gotten me through some nasty colds in shorter time.
Did you hear about the Romanian gymnast at the Olympics a few years back who lost her metal because she took a certain cough syrup? She had not idea that it contained banned substances. How crushing!
Tessa
2 months ago
Would never have guessed the supplements contained banned substanced! Not good!
Cold FX is made in Edmonton, an Alberta company, I think. Good to see it on the ‘good’ list. Yes, your blog is informative and coud become a significant port for fitness professionals and the average health pursuer alike.
A contemporary approach– I will check it out often.
T.
I love the idea of a green workout. I’ve been looking into that P90x workout and I like it because most of the exercises use your own body weight etc. But I find the combination of sustainability and fitness quite interesting and am looking forward on reading your thoughts as you discover this new space!
Jodie
2 months ago
Great suggestion on Foucault, Kasia. All the courses I’ve taken so far in the HKIN program have touched on his theories, but I really should get more in-depth understanding before I proceed farther. Some light holiday reading, perhaps?
I’m happy to see your comment on the Wiki quote; it was indeed intentional. I’m interested in the academic validation of the community of ‘knowledge creators’ and have been pushing against the traditional boundaries of research practices. For instance, I deliberately do not use a source if it exists in a hard-copy form only. All my sources are available online, and I submit my research papers electronically with hyperlinks imbedded in the text and all references as active links. Through the small act of adding hyperlinks, the assignment transforms from a static commentary to an interactive computer-mediated communication tool (Bruns & Jacobs, 2006).
Jodie
2 months ago
Rahaf, thank you for your thoughts! I completely agree: green workouts are the way to go! When I was running Lightfooted Bootcamps out of Toronto, I structured the workouts to be portable, quick & easy to do with very little equipment, and optimally carried-out in the great outdoors. Toronto parks are perfect places, if you don’t mind a puppy or two coming over to give you a friendly lick.
While exercising outside is not feasible all the time, the P90x or Wii Fit might be just the workout an environmentally-conscious jet-setter like yourself could use! I’ve given the P90x a whirl and found it ridiculously challenging, but still quite fun. And the physiological and motivational benefits of Wii Fit make for an interesting research topic, as I’ve learned this term. (http://lightfooted.ca/2009/10/asking-the-right-questions-2/).
Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll keep you posted with the latest green fitness concepts.
Rosanna
2 months ago
Great blog, Jodie! Did you go cross-country skiing? I did that in high school when I lived in Colorado. I would love to hear more about winter exercise opportunities on the blog!
Jodie
2 months ago
Thanks Rosanna! I cross-country skied for fun when I was younger, but haven’t got on a pair of skis now for quite a while. Thinking about it now, though – the area around Vancouver is supposed to be beautiful.
I imagine you were good at it & enjoyed in in high school. Did you race? Will post winter exercise ideas in the coming months!
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Nicholas
5 months ago
Battles BC is the most ridiculously amazing show. It’s this crazy attempt to make history like the movie 300. I love it!
goose
5 months ago
18/100 for Youtube videos (link seems broken; had to Google it). Verdict: “you’ve heard of the existence of the internets, but you’re a pretty green noob at them still”.
canucklehead
5 months ago
Du bist Kanadian untermenschen! Keine iTelefon Apps fur sie! iTelefon Apps ist nur fur wahr a(me)ri(cani)sch peppelz!
canucklehead
5 months ago
This attack on harmless, helpless and ultimately cute (if useless) urban hipsters by the mean arrogant roadie is reprehensible. Please donate generously to the Society for Hipster Ideal Transportation Solution to help prevent such attacks in the future and sustain the delicate balance of urban ecosystems. If measures are not taken to preserve the hipsters in their pristine environment, they may mutate into various invasive and damaging species, from yuppies (workaholized hipsters) to gangstas (criminalized hipsters) to the so-called “performance” jocks. The last one is a particularly dangerous sort of mutation, in which the hipster’s locomotion system (informally referred to as “fixie”) grows a cluster of several gears. In the worst-case scenario, the natural hipster’s coat may also undergo a shocking change: tight jeans, plaid shirts and old-school sneakers are replaced by distinctly alien neon-coloured lycra attire and clickety shoes. An ugly mushroom-shaped growth often appears on the head.
It may at first be perceieved as a positive development that gives hipsters an evolutionary advantage, allowing them to travel further and faster. However, this inevitably leads to the expansion of the mutated hipsters areal: from the selected hotspots in the downtown core to at least midtown and often beyond. Such radical expansion may lead to the collapse of midtown and inner suburbs. In extreme cases, these dangerous mutants may even travel well beyond the urban and suburban limits, and are sometimes seen (typically in packs) on country roads.
Help preserve the urban hipster for our children and grandchildren! Call 1-800-12S-HITS today to find out how YOUR money can save this majestic animal (yes, we DO take PayPal).
Jodie
5 months ago
You’re right, the link is broken! The “100 greatest YouTube hits in 4min” video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudhFVnN2o0
18/100? You still have so many ‘great’ hits to watch!
Kasia
5 months ago
I have often fantasized about eating these again. Helen made these for a bunch of us when we were in high school. They were amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Nicholas
5 months ago
Yeah, they’re great. I’ve used the same recipe for waffles too. If you seperate the eggs, beat the egg whites and then fold them into the batter you can make nice fluffy waffles.
Nicholas
5 months ago
Can’t wait to do some situps now!
goose
5 months ago
I’ve just seen them. Glad it was packed into 4 minutes. I don’t need any more of that.
(Well, some of those videos are pretty awesome, true…)
Bernie
5 months ago
I’ve run two marathons in the space of a month. The first was for myself, the second to help someone run their first. It helps to have a plan for how to approach each run. For example, is the first one a qualifier and the second one a potential make up run? If so, train hard for the first, and have a plan to make adjustments between races. If the second race is the important one, use the first one as a workout and a way of figuring out what you need to improve between races.
Have fun!
Jodie
5 months ago
Thanks for your input, Bernie: you’re right – having a clear idea what you want to achieve with each run is an important to the whole goal-setting process. In my case, the Okanagan Half this Sunday is to see where I stand (i.e. if I’m still running a 1:40:00 Half with very little training since May) and I will adjust my training plan accordingly. The next Half is playing for keeps – I will want to hit my target time, whatever that will be based on this Half’s performance.
Anyone else with back-to-back runs want to share their goal-setting process?
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4 months ago
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goose
4 months ago
Hey, I recognize that couch! And that painting! And that tall young man!
Jodie
4 months ago
Doesn’t it make you want to come over and play Wii Fit with us?!
goose
4 months ago
Well, I don’t think YOU have anything to worry about. I would estimate that you spend at least 10 hours a day engaging in “moderate to vigorous exercise”, which is in a class of its own. And really, 2.5 hours a week is all that’s required now to qualify as “active”? That’s a little pathetic.
I am also a bit suspicious of the article in general. By how much is the risk increased? And is it really the “sedentary time” that’s to blame, or simply less active time (by definition, anyone who’s engaged in more sedentary time, has less active time). Perhaps it is fine to spend long periods of time sedentary as long as you also spend a lot of time exercising (and not the measly 2.5 hours). I’m not saying sedentary behaviour is not harmful on its own – it well may be – but one needs to read the study to know if they really showed that.
And then this quote: “Active individuals … who spend long periods of time being sedentary, exhibit increased risk of [bad things happening] when compared with individuals who do not exhibit less sedentary behavior.”
“Do not exhibit less sedentary behaviour”? That’s a double negative, meaning “exhibit as much or more sedentary behaviour”. In other words, they are saying “active individuals who spend a long time sedentary, are more likely to get sick when compared to individuals who are at least as sedentary”? Somebody in that journal needs a proofreader.
goose
4 months ago
From the article’s abstract: “Analyses were adjusted for … total physical activity time”. Ah, good, at least they did that. Still, I don’t really understand it, because there are only two things that could be happening at any given moment:
1) the individual is engaging in physical activity, or
2) the individual is not engaging in physical activity (i.e., sedentary).
Also, each individual has the same number of hours per day. So, it’s not possible to have two people active for the same amount of time per week AND have one of them spend more time being sedentary. So they may have adjusted for total hours of moderate to vigorous physical activity, rather than total physical activity – but that’s silly, since everyone knows that light physical activity is beneficial as well.
But there is also another possibility. After all, they were NOT measuring total time spent being sedentary. They were measuring total time spent watching TV! Those who spend little time watching TV may have spend lots of time being sedentary in other ways: playing on their computer, or studying etc. So the association is not between health problems and sedentary time. It’s between health problems and watching TV. Big difference.
Here is my hypothesis: people who spend a lot of time watching TV are stupid, unhappy and have no life (I have very low opinion of watching lots of TV… a bit of TV is okay and even good every now and then, cause they do show good stuff sometimes, but lots of TV is practically a clinical sypmtom of stupidity and/or extreme lack of interests in life). And we all know that boredom, disappointment in life and low intelligence lead to poorer health (both directly, because stress caused by overall unhappiness is hard on your body, and through things like poor nutritoin choices, poor exercise choices etc.) These people are also more likely to overstate time they spend exercising per week, because they are embarassed of being such lazy bums and spending their free time on what even they recognize (or at least vaguely feel) is one of the stupidest and saddest activities imaginable.
goose
4 months ago
Yeah, I wanna race the pretty carts!
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goose
4 months ago
I hope you borrowed some of those anatomical models to enhance your Halloween display!
Rosanna
4 months ago
Beautiful pictures and a great story! Thanks for sharing.
Jodie
3 months ago
Hmmm…. just found out that that ‘tension’ I’m holding in my chest is actually costochondritis [http://www.emedicinehealth.com/costochondritis/article_em.htm] – residual joint pain/inflammation from a bike accident two years ago!
Erica
3 months ago
Great article…LOVE IT!…too bad I read it AFTER the race haha
Glad you had a great race today, Jodie!!
Rosanna
3 months ago
All great tips. Thanks, Jodie!
chephy
3 months ago
Wow. Downstream, I hope!
Emily
3 months ago
ps. love the website, it looks so good!
Kempf Mika
3 months ago
Hey everyone, it’s Thanksgiving Day! I’m happy with my extra day off, and I am planning to doing something fun that’ll probably involve a bike ride and seeing something new in Sunset I haven’t seen yet.
You write new post at Thanksgiving?
goose
2 months ago
Yay, Ph.D.! Go for it!
beitusinguisa
2 months ago
…please where can I buy a unicorn?
RandomGrad
2 months ago
Great info… Very useful for the young athlete who is being “sold” supplementation as the only way. Be sure to vet your info, especially if you are going to promote a product. Clean site as well.
Loren
2 months ago
haven’t yet watched the video, but will get to that at some point (no audio on my comp at the mo). That said, the notion of social media having an impact on green solutions is an interesting one to me. Read a book recently that looked at traditional advertising versus referral (as per social media – or the next door neighbour). Not surprisingly, referral was the clear winner for it’s implicit integrity. I get the feeling that’s what social media is all about.
Taking it that extra step, then, promoting/raising awareness of green solutions through social media would seem a very effective way of creating a meaningful (if local to your social ‘followers’ or ‘friends’ or whatever cute term comes out next). But then, if they tell their friends…
Jodie
2 months ago
Thanks for your comment, Loren. The Gregg + Tapscott as well as the the Green Fitness Concept are worth the wait to watch.
I think you’ve just described the real power mechanism behind social media networking – it’s a web of connectivity that is expanding at rapid speeds (faster than fingers flying on a keyboard) and is almost unimaginably broad-reaching. From my experience, this web seems to be most stable when it’s built on on trust, integrity and transparency.
kasia
2 months ago
Okay, all I’ve read is the top quote…but I have a comment about that!
Hmmm…I think it’s interesting that you used a quote from wikipedia about this. On the one hand, wikipedia is exactly what you are writing about — the democratization of knowledge, on the other hand, we’re always warned about never really using wikipedia for anything. Everyone I know uses wikipedia kind of in secret. Don’t know a social theorist that everyone is talking about? Read about him/her on wikipedia for two minutes and I get a sense of their work and feel a little less stupid.
Anyways, that was my first thought. I think the democratization of knowledge links nicely to a lot of the work I want to do, which aims at understanding public knowledge of medicine. I wonder to what extent a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Your writing is good, Jodie!
kasia
2 months ago
Oh, and I see that you talk about power as a web in your comment above — that’s very astute. You should read some Foucault on power if you are more interested in those ideas…
kasia
2 months ago
Holy cow! It’s weird how ColdFX is considered a banned substance — first off, I use it, and I don’t feel that my performance (I’ll count performance as academic performance) has been “enhanced”. Second, wouldn’t athletes be really invested in staying healthy? ColdFX has gotten me through some nasty colds in shorter time.
Did you hear about the Romanian gymnast at the Olympics a few years back who lost her metal because she took a certain cough syrup? She had not idea that it contained banned substances. How crushing!
Tessa
2 months ago
Would never have guessed the supplements contained banned substanced! Not good!
Cold FX is made in Edmonton, an Alberta company, I think. Good to see it on the ‘good’ list. Yes, your blog is informative and coud become a significant port for fitness professionals and the average health pursuer alike.
A contemporary approach– I will check it out often.
T.
Rahaf
2 months ago
I love the idea of a green workout. I’ve been looking into that P90x workout and I like it because most of the exercises use your own body weight etc. But I find the combination of sustainability and fitness quite interesting and am looking forward on reading your thoughts as you discover this new space!
Jodie
2 months ago
Great suggestion on Foucault, Kasia. All the courses I’ve taken so far in the HKIN program have touched on his theories, but I really should get more in-depth understanding before I proceed farther. Some light holiday reading, perhaps?
I’m happy to see your comment on the Wiki quote; it was indeed intentional. I’m interested in the academic validation of the community of ‘knowledge creators’ and have been pushing against the traditional boundaries of research practices. For instance, I deliberately do not use a source if it exists in a hard-copy form only. All my sources are available online, and I submit my research papers electronically with hyperlinks imbedded in the text and all references as active links. Through the small act of adding hyperlinks, the assignment transforms from a static commentary to an interactive computer-mediated communication tool (Bruns & Jacobs, 2006).
Jodie
2 months ago
Rahaf, thank you for your thoughts! I completely agree: green workouts are the way to go! When I was running Lightfooted Bootcamps out of Toronto, I structured the workouts to be portable, quick & easy to do with very little equipment, and optimally carried-out in the great outdoors. Toronto parks are perfect places, if you don’t mind a puppy or two coming over to give you a friendly lick.
While exercising outside is not feasible all the time, the P90x or Wii Fit might be just the workout an environmentally-conscious jet-setter like yourself could use! I’ve given the P90x a whirl and found it ridiculously challenging, but still quite fun. And the physiological and motivational benefits of Wii Fit make for an interesting research topic, as I’ve learned this term. (http://lightfooted.ca/2009/10/asking-the-right-questions-2/).
Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll keep you posted with the latest green fitness concepts.
Rosanna
2 months ago
Great blog, Jodie! Did you go cross-country skiing? I did that in high school when I lived in Colorado. I would love to hear more about winter exercise opportunities on the blog!
Jodie
2 months ago
Thanks Rosanna! I cross-country skied for fun when I was younger, but haven’t got on a pair of skis now for quite a while. Thinking about it now, though – the area around Vancouver is supposed to be beautiful.
I imagine you were good at it & enjoyed in in high school. Did you race? Will post winter exercise ideas in the coming months!
Cheers,
Jodie
vincenso
2 months ago
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
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