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by bardo šŸ
2021-02-07
running guy

How should you dress to run in winter?

The saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad wardrobe choices. Yet, as I prepare to post these words on this Sunday Runday it is -34 degrees Celsius on the other side of my front door and this morning I’m leaning on the fallacy of that statement:…

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2021-01-17
running guy

Recalling Quarantine Ultra

I hadn’t forgotten about it. At the time it was just a goofy online race. But I was there. This morning I was flipping through the digital pages of the December 2020 issue of Outdoor magazine. A sentence on an article titled ā€œUnprecedentedā€ caught my eye. Something something backyard quarantine…

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2021-01-13
poetry & prose

Cracking Woods

(serialized fiction) My watch had just chirped marking thirty minutes into my run, so it must have been about half past six in the morning. A gust of wind shoved its way through the wooded ravine. The trees responded in a wave. A roar of a hundred million rustling leaves…

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2021-01-10
running guy

Single Track Somebody

Sunday Runday. Still locked into my solo routine from an abundance of pandemic lockdown caution, I veered from my planned course yesterday. I left the house thinking of a simple suburban streets run, my typical get-er-done route. Instead, I turned ninety-degrees at the trail access, and trotted into the river…

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about

It’s about more than just food.

It’s about a mindset and a perspective on living a full, active and interesting life.

The Cast Iron Guy blog heated up in January 2021 as a journal of uncomplicated things, life lived, and a mindset that reflects the philosophical practicality of well-seasoned cast iron frying pan: enduring, simple, down-to-earth & extremely useful.

I write regularly from here in the Canadian Prairies about things that interest me, including the artistic inspiration I get outdoors, travel, gear, growing and cooking food, fire craft, suburban and nature trails, running, and (of course) the clever and curious ways I find to use my many pieces of cast iron cookware.

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