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Nov Training Totals

Looks like I didn’t do too bad for the month of November.

Total: 41:46

2006-11-30 Training (good)

Man I was tired, and everything was hard today. Tomorrow has to be a rest day or else I think I’ll fall over.

Total Time: 2:15

12:00 pm – YMCA treadmill, core, and stretch
- Run: 0:30
- Other: 0:15 (core and stretch)

5:30 pm – YMCA swim
- Swim: 1:30 3000 and something meters (1500 free, sets of 500 mixed)

Avenue du Parc

The Radio Noon call in show on CBC Radio 1 was about Municipal Politics today, and it was pretty much monopolized by the Avenue du Parc issue. Maybe the battle isn’t over… Maybe Tremblay’s gone insane…

Avenue du Parc, the saga continues

Although I now think that the battle has been lost, others don’t appear think so. For me it’s now about the next municipal election.

• Canada.com: Save Parc legal actions
• La Presse: the provincial approval step to the name change
• La Presse — editorial: misreads the “Save Park Avenue” thing as an anti Bourassa thing (because of the Official Language Act) — most of the protesters that I saw at City Hall were allos not anglos.

Silly Words

I just realized that close and close are the same word. I don’t know how I managed not to notice something so strange…

2006-11-29 Training (good)

Another inspired training day. It was really warm out so I chose to run the mountain, and I ended up doing a 21k run. I ran the mountain with 4 loops of the top.

This is the longest run that I’ve done since my marathon, and it sets the opening bar for my off season long runs. I plan to be up close to 40 by Feb.

FYI: from my house to the foot of the trail, then up the mountain with one loop of top, back to the foot, and back to my house is pretty much 15k. The loop at the top of the mountain is roughly 2k.

Total Time: 2:20

7:00 pm – Mt Royal run
- Run: 21k 1:55

9:00 pm – YMCA weights, core, and stretch
- Weights: 25min (upper body, core, and stretch

2006-11-28 Training (good)

Inspired training day.

Total Time: 2:45

12 pm – YMCA Swim
- Swim: 1250m 30min (500 mixed, 500 kick w/flippers, 250 free)

5:20 pm – YMCA swim, run, and core
- Swim: 3500m 1:30 (2000 free, sets of 500)
- Run: 30min
- Core: 15min

Sufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas

Sufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas

Ok I need to get this… Stupid beautiful Christian artist with a stupid beautiful Christmas box set. Some of it sends chills down my spine… [FYI I'm an athiest who isn't all that into Christmas]

Letter I wrote to Helen Fotopolous, and Mr. Tremblay

Before the subject of renaming Avenue du Parc ever came up I had a fair amount of respect for Mr. Tremblay, I voted his party in the past 2 elections, I supported his stance on several issues, and I liked many things about his vision of the future of Montreal. However, given his actions and bigoted comments surrounding this particular issue, I’m afraid that this “neo-Montrealer” has lost all respect for him as a person.

Unfortunately, I will now have to actively campaign against him and his party in the next municipal election. This is unfortunate because I find that I’ve developed even more respect for Helen Fotopolous, and while I derive no pleasure in political activism, I cannot in good conscious remain silent with a bigot as mayor of city I love.

Please note that this would have been the case even if the vote went in favor of Avenue du Parc.

Sorry Helen,
Matthew Adie

Robert-Bourassa Avenue

Well it’s over, and we lost Avenue du Parc will be changed to Robert-Bourassa Avenue.

40 counsellors voted for the change and 22 against (Helen Fotopoulos being one of them). I respect her, but I will be actively campaigning against her and Tremblay in the next municipal election.

This really pisses me off…

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