A Passion for Running

Welcome to the home of Mark aka The Running Blogfather - a 40 year-old dad, husband and marathon runner who’s beaten injury and is on the comeback trail!

regina marathon photos

passion for running category: photos, races/events, running on Wednesday, September 19 2007

Besides the photos on this page there is also a must-see photo here.
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@ about 18 miles
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the big, happy finish line
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red deer marathon report part EIGHT(?!) - race photos

passion for running category: photos, running on Friday, May 25 2007

My favorite one first. It’s pretty far into the marathon - I’d say about 30k in and I think I look decent. One thing you might note is that there’s no one around me. The race was pretty spread out at this point. I’d say that I was passing runners every five minutes or so at this point.
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Now, I’ll switch to early on in the race. I remember this spot of the race pretty clearly. I’d say it was at about 5k so it was pretty soon after I’d kicked into race pace. I remember it because of #122 I’m passing in the picture. See her gel flasks? She had two more on her back side and I remember thinking how differently we were approaching the whole fueling thing - her with four flasks of gel, and me with nothing. I looked up her number and she’s not in the results so it looks like she might have DNF’d.
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These next two pics are at about 35k. I remember because I passed that walker (there were very few people out there!) and then spotted the photographer moments later. I was really digging deep here. Things were starting to hurt.
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And, of course, the finish photo. Don’t you think I look just slightly relieved to be finishing? ;)
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runaway brides?

passion for running category: photos, running on Wednesday, April 26 2006

via Newbirth’s Flickr Photostream

awesome running photo

passion for running category: inspiration, photos, running on Saturday, November 5 2005

This was taken in Paris.

I got it from here. Ain’t Flickr the most awesome thing?

another AWESOME running photo

passion for running category: inspiration, photos, running on Monday, September 19 2005

Man, I’m lovin’ flickr. Check this out!