Of all the complaints racers make about race conditions, the one complaint you don’t expect to hear on the May long weekend is in regards to excessive heat!  The traditional 11 AM start made for some pretty balmy conditions on the course, but otherwise you couldn’t ask for a better day.  Warm temperatures, bright sunshine and […]

Ever wonder how some people can put in really big mileage weeks that also include some really brutal speedwork sessions and never seem to get sick. I used to wonder this all the time but now I’m one of those athletes. How you ask??
Well, one reason is simply progression of my subsequent training regimens. But […]

Mississauga Marathon Race Report
Sunday May 16th, 7:25am:  Completely freaking out….
Ok, how did I get here?  Why am I doing this?  This is not going to be fun.  In fact, this is really going to hurt.
These are the thoughts going through my head this past Sunday right before the start of […]

Everyone needs a little tenderness sometimes, and runners are no exception to this. Especially on those long runs, during those long training weeks and most importantly the day after a particularly hard training session when the tootsies are a little extra tender. The latter was my main reason for getting a pair as the cushioning […]

Looking for a lighter shoe for speedwork days or maybe a light race day shoe that will give more cushioning and support than a racing flat? Well look no further as Mizuno has the Elixir 5 waiting at Running Free for you to buy right now.
As a race day shoe it has just the right amount […]

Hello everyone,
Once again I have missed a week of posting and now I find that this will be my last post before the race next weekend.  Scary.  Still, I am really looking forward to it.  Right now the Weather Network is predicting nice weather, so hopefully they will be right for once.   Still, considering that […]

2010 Mississauga Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km and 5km
May 15-16, 2010
Mississauga, ON
www.mississaugamarathon.com
Well it had been a great winter of training from the right amount of mileage to the right speedwork, the right amount of sleep. And most importantly, my new coach as of last November, Jeff Gaudette of Premier Coaching online, who is a former Hansen Brooks marathon […]

2010 Sporting Life 10km
May 2, 2010
Toronto, ON
http://www.canadarunningseries.com/sportinglife/
What else can I say but this had been a really successful season so far, so why would this race be any different? It’s been a really busy spring for me as prior to this race I had already raced 2 half-marathons (Grimsby in 1:22:30 and Chilly in 1:20:48) and […]

Today is the 19th of May.  

With still more than one month before the official start of summer, I feel a sense of completeness with regards to the running race season.

I set no real goals for myself with running this year aside from one I most recently failed miserably at: missing a Boston qualification time […]

Every year Sporting Life 10K draws more than ten thousands of runners running down the world’s longest street ,Yonge Street, here in Toronto. This year 14,000 people took part which is only second to the Sun Run in Vancouver and raised over 1 million for Camp Oochigeas, an organization that helps […]

Who would have figured that Toronto would have been able to put together a 14000 person run! I have always loved the Sporting Life 10km run but due to other commitments have not run it in a couple of years. This year along with every other runner in Toronto, I decided to hit the Yonge […]

Standing in the front of the Arc des Triumph on the Champs Élysées with 40,000 other runners was an amazingly surreal experience. The energy and excitement was matched only by the incredulity and the hilarity of trying to ignore the goings on while standing next to the male urinals and the French runners having a […]

Race - Run4Hope 5k
Location - Brampton Ontario
Date - April 25, 2010
Website - www.run4hope.com 
 With the Run4Hope races being held by my triathlon club, Fletcher’s Meadows Cross Trainers, I made myself available before the race to do some set up work. This meant for an early morning start to the day but I was more than happy […]

Hello everyone,
I suppose that I should start off this week with a confession: I wussed out this week and hardly did any running due to the poor weather.  I did do my long run on Monday, which was 60Km, so that has to count for something right?  I’m back in school next week, so that […]

Event: Frontier Adventure Challenge Deerhurst
Location: Huntsville, Ontario
Date: May 1st, 2010
Website: www.fastadventures.com
 This 5-8 hour sprint race based out of Deerhurst resort has been my “season opener” for the past four years.  It’s become one of my favorite adventure races of the season and a staple on my AR calendar. I love the contrast between going out […]

My expectations for this race, my first back at it after having baby number four, were fairly low.  Given that Gabriel isn’t even 7 months old and the bout of extensor tendonitis I suffered in March, I knew my running wasn’t exactly where I was hoping it would be.  My two longest runs topped out […]

Hello everyone,
Last week I touched on role models and some of the dangers of ultra-running.  This week I want to put the focus back on the positive, especially since I believe that there is a lot to be gained from ultra-running.
To go back to the subject of role models, last week I mentioned three in […]

Today I ran the Pick Your Poison Trail 50k.
This was a four loop course held at one of our local ski resorts.
There was also a 12.5k and 25k race.
Got there just over an hour before and picked up my kit and goodies, a water bottle and a jar of locally produced honey.
Met up […]

On Sunday Apr 25th, after a weekend of not much sleep, including only 4 hours of sleep Saturday night, I headed out for the St John’s Waterloo marathon.
I got there about an hour before and registered, met up with another Barrie runner while he registered. (Even though we registered for the full, they […]