Friday May 9 |
 | Running 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Burn 3 |
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Wednesday May 7 |
| Running 40:00 [4] | |
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| Hard tempo during lunch. Venting some steam or else I would have been a mushroom cloud. |
Tuesday May 6 |
| Running 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Burn 3 |
| Still feeling the weekend in the legs but pushed through it. |
Monday May 5 |
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This is what oil sands are under. Peatlands. This is what the below pic likely looked like prior to mining.
This is an active mining pit for bitumen. The extent or scale can't be captured in a picture.
This is what an abandoned pit looks like. Yes they turn it into a tailing pond.
This is the type of older active tailing pond that the ducks you've heard in the news landed in. Yummy acidic and oily goodness. They are actually draining this pond into another pond oddly enough since they are trying to reclaim this one through reforestation.
You've heard that they have "guns" that sound to scare away the waterfowl, well they also use scarecrows or what they call Bitch-U-Men. Funny that's my other nickname for Zoolander;)
Heavy Hauler...huge! Trust me. One of these killed a guy last week when it ran over his Ford Super Duty truck. Nerve racking experience on those roads.
For scale. I think this might be the size of just a "littler" hauler tire - they have different models of over sized tonka trucks. Gotta love that motto on the sign. |
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| C • sad world 8 |
Sunday May 4 |
| Running 1:45:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 Roclite 305 |
| Nosehill with Zoolander. Bitching weather out. Zoo looking strong on the hills. I was feeling pretty cooked from yesterday especially going uphill. Good times. |