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It has been too long since my last post.I have been on the road a lot lately hustling for my day job. I am a staff reporter at the Star. The blog is extracurricular.I was on Vancouver Island for a...
View ArticleMy new place in the transportation food chain
I was stopped at a red light - right foot on the curb, back straight, dorky helmet that looks like a plum pit on my head. From my perch on the old-timey bike, I looked around and could see right into...
View ArticleSoft in the middle
I am avoiding exercises that strenghten what fitness dorks call the "core." I can't explain it well, except that I really don't enjoy the way sit-ups feel. Like going to the dentist or picking up my...
View ArticleViennese sins
I have just returned from Austria with a gut full of goulash and sidewalk-vendor sausages that dwarf Toronto's street meat. And so it continues: Just as I hit a stride in the gym, something - a...
View ArticleCramped style
The tight economy has hit my gym.What was once a three-room gym - spacious everywhere, with each machine and bench surrounded by enough room to walk and stretch - has been stuffed into two rooms. The...
View ArticleNo shorts
My legs are pasty white, making my leg hair look more coarse and dark than it actually is. I would need several consecutive days in the sun and a tub of baby oil to darken the skin and bleach the hair....
View ArticleNo basketball in midtown
My brother-in-law has always loved playing basketball. But now he lives in a Hong Kong neighbourhood where opportunities for a pick-up game are somewhere between slim and none. He is visiting...
View ArticleOne against 73,000
I aim to work out this week more than usual. I have a reason. I'm a little scared of something that's coming up. Actually, a lot scared. On Sunday I am going to a place where grown men, and women,...
View ArticleA regular
I have crossed over. From bemused observer to garish spectacle. From the guy who sniped from a slow-moving treadmill - "Hey, look at the old guy wheezing on the elliptical. Look at Bobby shortpants...
View ArticleSick
The restraint needed to curb my post-smoking diet of peanut butter and beer ... The awkward early stages of acclimating to the gym locker room, mastering sweat towel etiquette and learning how to run...
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