I met one of my heros; Beckie Scott, and Cried.
As a Canadian who doesn’t particularly care for hockey my sporting idols have never been well-known to mainstream TV watchers. However we Canuks do have some great, non-puck handling, sporting figures to look up to. Especially on nordic skis and bikes. Clara Hughes, Simon Whitfield, Svein Tuft, and Beckie Scott are not only great athletes but also great all around people.
Last week I had a chance to hear Beckie Scott talk at the University of Waterloo. The crowd was sparse, her intro was fumbled, and her brief talk moved me to tears.
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Plan A: was to hit the road and make the 6h out of the desert in the cool of Sunday evening.
The whole ‘life unscripted/ unplanned/ non-uneventful’ thing sounds swell on paper, but truth be told, sometimes my ‘carelessness’ (as some close to me may call it)
Soo. I have been dog walking for the past 3 weeks, and I have one more week of it before jetting back into full Nat-ness. Well focused – hoping to be pro-triathlete Nat-ness. Ha. But for now, I am fund raising by walking the dogs.
Everything was steaming along fine in our
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