Running has been a big part of my parenting life, as odd as that may sound. I seriously took up the sport shortly after the Girl was born, and it has been the backbone of my physical and mental health through a tough job. And the friends and running community I met along the way were invaluable to the harder job of raising a kid.
For as much as I tried to be a good dad, I was selfish about my running. It was my ticket to a bigger group of friends, a support team, and a healthier life that wasn’t me stuck at a desk doing work (or drawing comics) all the day long. Leaning into a sport and living a healthy life didn’t go unnoticed by the Kid tho, and she showed tons of curiosity about what I did when I disappeared out the front door with sneakers on.
Sometimes in the act of making new models for my work no comic ever came out of the effort. It was just a neat drawing that I wanted to share, even though it didn’t fit in as a proper gag or multi-panel comic strip. This is one of those examples.
You may have noticed some redundancy in the written content in these posts, particularly if you’ve been reading more than one or two of them. A couple years ago the original piday.ca site was hacked and lost… and I have had to rebuild it all from scratch. I had all the comics and art, but I have taken some shortcuts with a bulk content editor to try and give those comic strips as much context as I can.