Race: The North Face Canadian Death Race - 125km in 24hrs
Date: August Long Weekend Annually - Sat/Sun
Location: Grande Cache, Alberta
Sport: Adventure Running!
Website: http://www.canadiandeathrace.com
“For nearly a decade, elite racers have come to Grande Cache to cheat Death in one of the world’s toughest adventure races. The 125 km course begins and ends on a 4200 foot plateau, passes […]

- Date - 7/27/08
- Description - 20k Road “Race”
- Location - Toronto, Ontario
- Race Name - Beaches Jazz Tune Up 20k, 10k & 5kPeterborough 1/2 IM Duathlon
- Sport - Road Race
- Race web site - www.canadianrunningseries.com
I had the pleasure today of leading some future  marathoners in a 20k tune up run in conjunction with the Canadian Running […]

Rattlesnake Point
Five Peaks Trail Running Series
4.5km trail race
Rattlesnakce Conservation Area, Milton
July 12, 2008
www.5peaks.com
 Coming Back
I hadn’t run the entire week before this race as I was away at camp. Normally I run five times a week, so I was a bit worried about how my legs would respond to the time off. Although I had run […]

Durham Forest Five Peaks
5 Peaks Trail Race Series
Uxbridge, Ontario
June 13, 2008
5.0km
www.5peaks.com
This is always an important race for me as it is on my “home turf”. Durham Forest is one of my favorite trail systems to train on as it is close to home and I love the variety of technical , hilly terrain it offers. This […]

Hello,
Yesterday I raced in the 30th annual Lindsey Milk Run. The weather was great it was overcast and on the verge of raining all day but we got lucky and it didn’t start until after awards. I raced in the 10km, the event was run really well, they had the course marked and there was […]

I’m 90% sure I’m going to run a fall marathon,so I thought I’d throw in a little double tempo workout in the form of back to back races in a weekend.
Sat.July12th Rattlesnake Point,Milton,10am
Enduro Distance 12k
www.5peaks.com
Saturday morning was warm and humid but thankfully overcast as we made our way out to the escarpment for race #3 […]

Hello,
Today I raced in the 5 Peaks race at Rattlesnake Point, it was an awesome morning! The weather was perfect not to hot overcast with some sun and a few rain drops to cool you off. I have looked forward to this race since last year when I finished it for the first time. I […]

Race: Ultimate XC – Quebec Edition
Date: Saturday June 21st
Location: Val Morin – Quebec
Sport: Adventure Running!
Website: http://www.ultimatexc.com/quebec.html

What has 4200+ pieces of pink & black polka-dot flagging tape, 12674ft UP! and 12577ft DOWN! ~10km of swamps, ~20km of bushwacking, 42K of ankle-twisting “sorta-trail”, a 300ft icy-black-water beaverdam swim, trail that goes straight up forever..that brings you to […]

Sat.June 14th
Durham Forest,5 Peaks Enduro Race 12.3k
www.5peaks.com
The latest installment of the 5peaks series was sponsored by none other than the mothership itself,and what a race course Jill and Kalon mapped out for us!
A quick sprint down a “country lane”,quickly into challenging single track chock full of switchbacks,fallen logs and the odd bit of mud.Throw in […]

June 14, 2008 Durham Regional Forest in Uxbridge, ON 
This is the 3rd year in the row that I’m running this race and there’s a good reason for it - it’s an awesome venue and course.  I was also a volunteer for this race so I when I arrived at 7:30AM it was pouring rain.  I was pretty sure that […]

- Date - 6/8/08
- Description - 5k Road Race
- Location - Streetsville, Ontario
- Race Name - Bread and Honey Races
- Sport - Road Racing
- Race web site - http://www.breadandhoneyrace.com
The “Village in the City”, Streetsville, was the site of the 30th Annual Bread and Honey road race this past weekend (June 8, 2008). The 2k, 5k […]

I had to go to Vancouver for a conference this past weekend, and with my Saturday free, decided to check out the Get Out There race calendar to see if I could find a race to do (yes, I have a race addiction!).  As luck would have it, the 25 km Iron Knee trail race, […]

School Track and Field Meet
1500m
May 29, 2008
Opening
Mind: What your brain makes your body do
Thought: Simply what you are thinking
I don’t usually write a race report for school races, but at my most recent track meet I learned a couple of different things about myself. Things I think other athletes can learn from. It is something […]

5 Peaks Horseshoe Valley Trail Race
Sport Course- 4.8km
Horsehoe Valley Resort
Saturday, April 26, 2008
www.5peaks.com
 Prerace: Winter Training
Although I prefer the longer races, I decided to switch my focus this year to shorter races in preparation for highschool cross-country. Speed is not my strength, but as I am still young I know it’s important for me to fully develop […]

Sat.May 24th
Dundas,On
What better way to celebrate BobDylan’s and my Mom’s birthdays than getting up at 5a.m.,driving out Hammer way and running the Sulpur Springs 25ktrail race?(www.ouser.com)
What an honour to be in the company of the ultra community,doing 50k,100k,50mile &100 mile distances.It made my 25k seem wimpy.I will certainly give the 50k distance a go sometime […]

Sulphur Springs 50km Ultra Trail Race
Ancaster, Ontario
Saturday May 24, 2008
www.ouser.com
Prerace: Routines
 The rule is “don’t try anything new before a race”. So the day before this race there I was, pacing kids at the track for the 800m and 1500m at their race pace.  I love running with kids, but a track workout the day before an ultra! I […]

Ganaraska Ultra Trail Race
50km Trail Race
May 10, 2008
Horseshoe Ski Resort
www.ouser.com
Prerace: Bruises, Musicals, and Kids
After a disappointing race at Seaton 78km, I needed this race for a mental boost. Two days after Seaton I was back running- two whole kilometres with my school run club. Oh how all the kids laughed! Seaton had left my IT bands, quads, and […]

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 […]

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 […]