Sunday May 11th 7:30am
Mississauga,Reebok Mississauga Half Marathon
To be perfectly honest I don’t know what’s going on with my running so far this season.Is it the flat/downhill courses,the new-found enthusiasm of being a part of Team Running Free or just reaping the benefits of some hard training with some real fast runners?Whatever the reason,I have now […]

Storm the Trent “Trek Elite” 8 Hour Advanced Course
Saturday May 11th
Warsaw, Ontario
www.stormevents.ca
I was really looking forward to this years Storm the Trent as I had entered my team into the Trek Elite 8-Hour event. After the disaster of the Rib Raid my team was looking for a little redemption in this the 2nd qualifier event […]

Date: Sunday May 11th – Mothers Day!
Location: Mississauga
Sport: Road Running Race – Marathon
Website: http://www.mississaugamarathon.com/index.asp
Well I must say….4:30AM comes very early!
After lots of hard training & direction from “coach” Bob, and a pre-race pep-talk the night before, I was ready to take on the Marathon with no nerves – in my mind today was another set […]

Seaton Trail 78km Trail Race
Pickering, Ontario
April 19, 2008
78km Ultra Trail Race
Ontario Ultra Series
www.ouser.org
PreRace:
Running on snow covered trails, at times in knee deep snow, does wonders for your quad strength, tears up your hamstrings and calves, and gives you killer stabilizer muscles.  Both my mind and body hate the road, so although the trails this winter […]

Race: Mississauga Half Marathon
Date: Sunday May 11, 2008.
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Sport: Running Race
Website: http://www.mississaugamarathon.com/index.asp
Quite simply, I wanted to run a sub 1:40 half-marathon and I did 1:38:59. Therefore, I was happy with today’s performance, considering that I ran in 1:46 last year.
This was my 5th year running the event and it is still one of my […]

FAR High School Adventure Challenge
Sunday May 4th 2008
Deerhurst Resort, Barrie On
www.far.on.ca
For the second year in a row, high school adventure racers from across Ontario gathered at Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka to race the 2008 High School Adventure Challenge put on by Algoma University College and the crew at FAR.  59 teams of 3 had the […]

Race: Vancouver Marathon and Half Marathon
Web Site: http://www.bmovanmarathon.ca/hm/
Date: May 4, 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC
By: Lisa Coleman
This was a great race.  I did it with my husband and one of his co-workers.  It was a first half marathon for the two of them and they had agreed ahead of time to stick together and take it easy […]

Fox River Socks recently launched a line of socks that features their new “Ingeo” yarn, a material that is manufactured partially from Corn. This is just the tip of the iceberg of their commitment to sustainability as Fox River has been dedicated to Environmental thinking in the manufacturing of their products for over 30 years. […]

Sunday May4th 8am
I decided to do the “green” thing and instead of cabbing it to the start line of the Sporting Life 10k this past Sunday May 4th,I rode my bike up to the start line from the Beach.
Wrong!
Uphill into a wind was not the gentle warmup I had anticipated,but by race start my legs […]

Race: Frontier Adventure Challenge
Location: Huntsville, Ontario
Date: May 3, 2008.
Length: 8 hours
“My advice to you,” began Geoff Langford at the pre-race meeting for Frontier Adventure Sports & Training’s first race of the season,  “is to jump in the first puddle that you see, but there is no way that anyone is going to stay dry today.”  […]

Name of Race: Odyssey Endorphin Fix
Website: http://www.oarevents.com/event.asp?id=100&catID=1
Date of Race: April 24-27, 2008
Location of Race:  New River Gorge, West Virginia, USA
Type of Event: Adventure Racing
Distance/Length of Event: 3 Days

Team Running Free once again went down to West Virginia to tackle the Endorphin Fix to start out the 2008 season.  Boasting HUGE elevation ascents (42,000ft total) and 300+ km’s the “toughest 2-day […]