On Saturday I got home from My 50k Trail Race at Sulphur Springs and spent the next little while cleaning mud out of my shoes and drying them out. Packed most of my gear for the morning and relaxed with my favourite pre-race dinner, wieners & beans.
Made it to bed at a reasonable time and […]

Saturday May 28th was the Sulphur Springs trail run.
Sulphur Springs consists of 25k, 50k, 50 mile, 100 mile and 100 mile relay events
I was doing the 50k event, while a couple from my group were doing the 25, another doing the 50k and a couple doing the 50 mile races.
Also several RunningFree teammates were doing […]

May 22nd 2011 was the 2nd running of the Whitby Marathon.
Last year I ran the inaugural race with another member of my group and it was a b!tch. The last half was through industrial park in hot humid weather. No breeze, no shade and the heat bouncing back at you from the pavement. Still managed […]

The Sporting Life 10K – Where It All Started
Race Day: May 1, 2011.
Due to the unfortunate loss of Danny Kassap after the Sporting Life 10k, the report below was left on the back burner for a while. Time to move on, and celebrate all things running!
Like so many, I started running on a New Year’s […]

Race details:
4K Run;
30K Bike;
4K Run
Just like my last race, this was only a “training race”.   That being said, I wanted to put out a good “speed” effort and see how things went.   I was not well rested leading up to this race, as the Saturday before the race (the duathlon was on Victoria Day Monday), […]

Well……that sucked.
I’m tempted just to leave it at that, but that wouldn’t be fair to the race organizers and volunteers, who were all awesome, as always, but particularly awesome given that many of them had to stand around in the cold and rain just to hand water and gatoraide to us runners.
The weather looked dodgy […]

Anyone who has read my previous posts might have caught my occasional references to my wife and friends who have supported me both during my training for 100 milers, and during the actual races.  This has been more true during the training for the upcoming Sulphur Springs 100 miler (which is […]

Hey Lance, I hear you’re going to be doing Ironman.  Neat.  But like those women who write their hotel room numbers on their underwear and throw them at Tom Jones, there are triathlon coaches everywhere who are going to be writing their email addresses on water bottles and heaving them in your direction.  Don’t listen […]

Storm:
Verb / stôrm:  Move angrily or forcefully in a specified direction
Generally races are all the same.  Start at point A, and proceed to point B as fast as possible… What happens in between these points is what defines the race, and challenges the participants.  It’s where memories are made, bonds are developed and conclusions are […]

On May 15th I ran the Mississauga Marathon.
The Southern Ontario area is a strange place for marathons, last year we had the two spring marathons Mississauga and Whitby a week apart (Ottawa has one the week after Whitby) and in the fall two marathons in Toronto three weeks apart (followed by Hamilton two weeks later). […]

Race: Desjardins General Insurance 10km
Date:  Saturday May 14th, 2011, 6:30 pm
Where:  Mississauga, ON
Website:  www.mississaugamarathon.com
The alternate title to this could also be “Every Second Counts”.    Because realistically had I gotten myself ready a little bit faster, I would have been a happy camper instead of sorely disappointed.
On Saturday night, I ran the Mississauga 10km.  […]

    As part of the plan to buy gear that actually works instead of making do. Looked again to the masters of filth riding.. the Brits.
Finally got my hands on a pair of Altura Attack shorts . And of course in the only acceptable colour for cycling….black. And hardly had they arrived did they get […]

Race: Toronto Half Marathon
Date: May 15, 2011
The first thing I did this morning at 6:00 am was go to the window. If it was horizontal rain and less than 10C, I was ducking back under the covers - fahgeddabowdit (after all I had not paid for this race). I am certain that is what my […]

As part of the 2011 Team NFI’s goals was to do as many free events as possible. The first being the Buttertart Tour about a month ago.
After getting the info from Endo Racing in Brockville. Info meaning a invite to join in. Amazing how you get stuff like that when it’s time. So loaded up […]

http://www.mizunocda.com/running/products/mizuno-mens-exodus–running-tights
As we move firmly into shorts weather and the cold weather gear gets put to the back of the closet I thought I should write about a new(ish) product for us fella’s,the 3/4 length tight.
Should we just call them Manpri’s? Arnold at Mizuno Canada thinks so!Can a man get away with wearing 3/4 tights?My wife […]

Hello everyone! This will be my first posting as a Team Running Free member! I’ve recently done the Toledo Marathon and would like to share my experiences and what not.  This post is going to be split up in 2 sections. The first section is my actual race report. It’ll be in point form and […]

Afterword on the 2011 Sporting Life 10k
In the May/June issue of iRun magazine, editor Mark Sutcliffe asked a poignant question: “When will my last run happen?” We all know one day, hopefully far from now, that we will have our own last run. We will likely not know it at the time. We will look […]

K-Swiss Blade Light Run
I’ve been waiting for the right time to share my thoughts about the K-Swiss Blade Light Run with the Running Free community and now that all of the Running Free stores are stocking various models of K-Swiss Running shoes, I can now do so.
If you’ve […]

On Sunday May 1 a few “new to running” members from Ajax RF did their first race – The Sporting Life 10K. Two, were paired with more experienced runners from Team RF. This buddy system is of great benefit for several reasons. First, the buddy can share their pre-race knowledge and experiences […]

People come to Running Free group runs with different athletic goals, abilities and expectations. For many runners, the phrase “Who’s doing 20?” means a mere 20 km jaunt. For the new or novice runner and power walkers, this language and goal is pretty intimidating - for this group, “doing 20” means running […]