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26/9/2019

Received this from the Army Run yesterday
2019 Canada Army Run 5K finish
Hello,

You are receiving this message because your finish time was impacted by the unfortunate congestion at the 5K finish. It is our goal every year to have participants finish the race on their terms, which unfortunately did not occur in some cases. There are a number of factors that led to this issue, including on-site construction, corral size and aspects of the post-race product slowing down crowd flow. All of these issues are being addressed to prevent this issue from recurring in the future.
You will find on your www.Sportstats.ca official time that an adjustment has been made to your overall finish time. We were able to do this because we had timing systems throughout the course, including the following locations:

Wellington and Kent, before the first turnaround
1 km before the finish
An announcer’s mat within the last 100m

With this technology, we are able to determine reasonably accurate pacing data on our participants. We have taken that pace, and extended it to the full 5K distance to reflect the time you were on track to achieve.

We understand that paces may have slowed down or sped up in that time, however we want to reflect the best available data. We have made this adjustment to your finish time, no further adjustments to 5K times will be made.

We would like to offer you $10 off registration for next year. Please use the code "20195K" when registering, and this code does not expire.
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A much better time and the $10 off is a very nice gesture. It seems as if they did realize that the finish was a great way to end the run.

Here are the updated results:
OFFICIAL TIME 33:34
OVERALL PLACE 4081/11115
BIB 23450
CATEGORY M 75-79
GENDER M
CITY OTTAWA
PROVINCE ON
COUNTRY CAN
GENDER PLACE 2454/5116
CATEGORY PLACE 1/32

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Another one Done and Dusted Canadian Army Run 22 Septembe

22/9/2019

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I was unimpressed with my time for today’s Army run. Lots of walkers — even within the first 100 metres. I never knew there were so my long upward inclines in Hull. There were much more up-hills than down hills. And then the jam up in the last 25 meters before the finish line. I was grumbling about my time and not being impressed with the finish time but my laps, 2, 3, and 4 were good and then to see my category place took some of the disappointment about the finish time away.

Unofficial Results for the Army 5k Run from my GP
DISTANCE 5.19K
CUMULATIVE TIME 34:39
MOVING TIME 34:19
LAP 1 6:50 - unimpressed with the number of walkers even in the first 100 m and continuing
LAP 2 6:05
LAP 3 6:27
LAP 4 6:22
LAP 5 6:47 - big jam up before the finish line. Shoulder to shoulder walking or not moving
LAP 6 1:47 - last .19K jam up hardly moving at all.

Official Results for the Army 5k Run
DISTANCE 5K
TIME 00:34:33
OVERALL PLACE 4112/11133
BIB 23450
CATEGORY M75-79
GENDER M
GENDER PLACE 2470/5122
CATEGORY PLACE 1/32

I had been training off and on since March, first for the Tamarack run in May and then on a more or less steady basis for this one. Now that the race season, for me, is over. It will be just doing a run 2 or 3 times a week until early next year when I will start training again for the Tamarack 5K in May. I got a notice yesterday that if you did that run this year there is an early sign up starting tomorrow (Monday 23 Sept). I may as well sign up early and save a bit of money. Unless something unforeseen happens between now ant then I plan on running it. Hopefully with a little better time and placing. Although I don’t count placing 3rd in that run as being disrespectful.
It was a good day for running at 8am it was mostly cloudy, the temperature was a comfortable 77c wind was south at only 11 kms.
I should be getting some 'official' photos via email later in the week and will post them in a separate blog.

Later in the afternoon I took a couple of rose cuttings to see if they will sprout. If they do I have a plan for them.

Took the Christmas light down from around the front window because it is going to be replaced with a new one tomorrow.

Don and family will be over for a roast lamb Sunday dinner.
Now to do a bit for the Microgreens Experiment.

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Has it been 6 months since my last posting?

14/9/2019

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It seems as if it has been forever since I posted something here. I really have no excuse for not keeping things up to date but it seems as if sometimes other things just seem to get in the way.
Spring and summer went quite well although Spring seemed to be cooler than usual which put the planting a little bit later. Most of the seeds went into the allotment garden in the first two weeks of June rather than the last two weeks of May.
The tomatoes went in between the second and last week of June which is also quite late. This year I planted eight different kinds of tomatoes; 42 Days, Black Cherry, Bonny Best, Red Brandywine, Giant Belgium, Gray’s Sweet, Indian Strip and Martini’s Roma. Plus one row of ?? tomatoes. Some how the name label had been lost. All of the tomatoes did fairly well but they did not seem to produce as much as previous years. I am going to have to rotate the crops for sure next year.
I also tried some different kinds of squash but did not have good luck with that. I only have Butternut and Spaghetti that survived. And even then there was an infestation of Squash Bugs on them. Yes that is the name of the pest. I also tried pumpkin and have one large and one small. That should be good for Halloween as well as a pie or two. Adrian wanted me to plant some corn so I tried some Early Bantum. The cobs are very small so I don’t think it is worth trying that again. Haven’t harvested any yet so can’t tell what it tastes like.
I have started two 42 Day tomatoes as well as some lettuce and basil in hydroponics indoors to see how that works out. So far the tomato plants are doing quite well and the lettuce is slowly coming along. Bought a heater and air pump for the hydroponics to see if they help. Back in the Spring one of the owners of the hydroponic store told me to add an air stone to help things along. So finally getting around to it.
The past couple of days I have looking on the net and learning about growing ‘microgreens.’ I bought some containers from Dollarama and window screen (as per Jeb the Gardener) from Home Hardware and have the containers ready. I put Sunflower, Radish, Swiss Chard and Spinach in water to soak for 24 hours. Will plant them tomorrow.
So much for the gardening. What else has been happening. Not much!
Sadly my brother John passed away in December and in January I went out to British Columbia to attend his memorial. I had the pleasure of overnighting on my arrival with an old navy colleague, Ken and his wife Debbie. Ken was kind enough to drive me to Quailicum Beach, where I met and stayed with John’s wife Bernadette. On the trip back I simply took the bus and again stayed with Ken and Debbie before flying back to Ottawa. On the return visit we made arrangements to meet up for drinks with another two other colleagues, Darcy who was the Military Policeman at the Canadian Embassy in Damascus while we were both there and I had not seen since my departure in 1997, and another navy colleague Paul who was a young private back in 1974.
Wendy and I went on a Caribbean cruise in March and visited our friends in Florida before the trip. I will have to make a special page for that trip.
Went to Upper Canada Village to see Mieka on her last day of ‘Time Travellers.’
Ran the Tamarack 5K Race. Placed 3/23 in age category with an official time of 34:36. A little slower than I would have liked but because of the cold, cold winter not much training was done until almost the middle of April. Being away almost the whole of March did not help either. Although I did do some treadmill running and walking onboard the ship.
OH3 water station for the Marathon for the same event.
Training for the upcoming Army 5K race on the 22nd of September. I want to get my time down to closer to 30 minutes. Would be overjoyed to get it below that level.
I have been posting silliness pretty regularly on Facebook.
That seems to be it for now. I am going to keep my fingers crossed to try and keep this thing more up to date.
Watch for an update about the March Cruise.

Below are three of my favourite tomatoes.

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Another one Done and Dusted Canadian Army Run 22 Septembe

Has it been 6 months since my last posting?

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