(Rob Watson is a Canadian distance runner currently living and training with the Speed River Track & Field Club in Guelph, Canada. He loves crepes, hockey and Labatt Blue. He maintains a blog that only occasionally touches upon distance running.)

His personal bests :
8:27 3k Steeple
13:40 5000m
Marathon 2:16:17

Golf, Loofahs and Bike Tickets.
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

So it was father's day Sunday. I love my father,  pops has sired 5boys, we all love him very much. Wanna know something funny about us 5boys? If you take the first letter from each of our names, you can make a funny/relevant word. Scott, Pete, Erik, Rob, Mike, haha, well played mom and dad, you guys are funny.

Headed out to Vancouver this weekend for the ScotiaBank Half Marathon. Pretty excited about it. I've always wanted to visit Vancouver, well maybe a little less excited now that it turns out that Vancouver is full of huge losers...okay sorry not going to get political here, but seriously Vancouver WTF? Ahh...anyways, I've always heard about how nice it is out there on the west coast, should be a fun trip.

I'm pretty excited for this race. I have never run a half marathon and I think my fitness is coming around decently. This race is part of the Canada Running Series and those dudes always put on a top notch event. 1000km June had been abandoned in order to focus on sharpening up for this half. But for the record, as of June 15th I was hammering 1000km June, it was gonna be conquered for sure. But I guess the reason for doing all this hard training is so that I can race fast, so I might as well be somewhat fresh for this sucker. I don't really have a time goal, I just wanna beat some people and make it hurt.

Few random thoughts here; I think loofahs are pretty nifty. They may come across as kinda girly, but when ya get down to it and you're looking for one hell of a satisfying lather, loofahs are the way to go.

I don't like golf. I golfed last year and had a lot of fun, but that was only because I was drunk the whole time. I had fun drinking with my friends, but the actual act of golfing sucks. I don't like golf because I am terrible at it. I don't like sucking at things, but what makes it worse is the fact that old people and fat people are way better than me at golf. Any sport that you can be good at despite being old and fat is not a sport, it's a game. Golf is a game. I don't like the game of golf.

I got a ticket for riding my bike on the sidewalk. I was pulled over by a cop in an SUV, it was weak man. Any cop driving around in an SUV pulling over cyclists is a wiener. Seriously, you have this big ass, rough looking cop truck and ya pull over a dude on a bike? Cops in SUV's should be ramming shit, busting drug dealers and being general bad asses, busting cyclists is not bad ass at all.

In Guelph if you don't have a bell on your bike it is a $110 ticket. That is bullshit. Why is a bell so absolutely crucial that not having one is worth $110? What does a bell do? It rings. It makes a noise to alert people of your presence. Do you know what else can do that? A human voice. Our voice can act as a bell, a natural bell. It can be argued that the human voice is even more useful than a bell at alerting pedestrians of your whereabouts. A bell goes "ring" but I can be much more particular with my voice and say things such as;  "excuse me", "on your left" or I could even just scream incoherently, exact same result as the bell. People gonna know you're coming. Guelph take your bell law and shove it, that's bush league man.

Good luck to the river crew out there at nationals this weekend, really looking forward to following the action. The 1500 and Steeple should be particularly awesome. Milne vs. Nate in the 1500 and Alex vs. Hughes in the steeple. Good stuff going down out there in the Calgary.

Yup, so that's why I haven't blogged in a little while, really had nothing to say. I'll get back at ya with a race report and such next week. Love ya internet.

Til next time Flotrackers, keep fit and have fun!

-rob-