Event: Iroquois Trail Test
Location: Kilbride, Ontario
Date: August 21st, 2010.
The Iroquois Trail Test is a 32km trail race run almost entirely on the Bruce Trail. I’d had my eye on it for a few years but it never managed to fit into my schedule.  This year I’ve put a bit greater focus on my ultrarunning and […]

The 1st Annual Dirty Dash
Waterloo, July 18th
This was the most fun race I think I have ever done! There’s something about arriving at a race with a 40 foot long, foot and a half deep pit of mud waiting for you that just tells you that this is not going to be […]

5 Peaks Rattlesnake Point
July 10
Enduro Course - 12.7k
It was a beautiful, sunny, July day.  Perfect weather for a trail race.  The best part of this race for me was that it took me all of 8 minutes to get to the park.  8 mins!!  For the first time ever on race day, I got to […]

5 Peaks trail running series - Durham Forest - June 12th, 2010
I love trail running. About 2 years ago in looking for a new challenge I made the transition from road running to trail racing and despite the new scars and the lack of ‘port-a-potties’ in the woods, it has become a new favourite event […]

I have to begin by saying this is my new favourite race. (and not just because this is the only trail race I didn’t earn a new scar from!) This is an extremely well organized event at an absolutely amazing venue. Likely unknown or unheard of to most of us..since when you think Mont Tremblant you likely think […]

Holiday Lake 50K - Appomattox, Virginia - weekend of February 13th, 2010
So I am sure most of you can think of much more romantic things to do on St. Valentine’s weekend than run a 50km trail race. (Or maybe you can’t and that’s why you are part of the team same as me!) Believe me, […]

Day 1 - Kayak 62k (34k down-river, 28k lake)
Day 2 – Trail Run 56k
Day 3 – Mountain Bike 100k 
Day 1
Pre-race was kinda exciting as people milled about scoping each-other’s boats trying to figure out who had the fastest vessel.  With a rule of only allowing plastic […]

This event is always on my list for some reasons I cannot describe. Perhaps I love it is so well-organized, I love the distance (not too short but not too long), I love the the distillery district, I love the view of the Toronto skyline and I love the music the band plays after the […]

Well this was my second attempt this month at seeing where my fitness level is at for 5k.
More importantly it was also both of my daughter’s second attempt at the 1k. (We discussed pacing alot this week due to last races BONK for both girls at 150m into the race!). My oldest listened with great interest and absorbed […]

Race Report
By Roger Hospedales, Team Running Free
Race:  Acura 10 Miler
Date:  Sunday June 11, 2009.

Location:  Distillery District, Toronto
Description:  10 Miles (16.1km)
Sport:  Running
Website: www.canadarunningseries.com/torontoten/index.htm
Before I get into the details of the race, let me first start off by strongly recommending this race to everyone. I’ve never been disappointed by […]

Heat acclimatization is a concept that has been analyzed by exercise physiologists extensively for almost two decades now, since the big boom in marathon running. Still, many are trying to understand how heat acclimatization can benefit them, or, how the lack of heat acclimatization will harm them. Heat has a funny way of working against […]

As promised, the second race of 5 races in the 5 Peaks trail running series was a completely different experience than the first race. Durham Forest, the host location for this event, offers a great mix of wide double track and technical, very narrow, single track trails that the course organizers took full advantage of. […]

The sporting life 10k has become a favourite spring race for me. This year was the second year I completed this race and look forward to completing it again next year. While this race has become very popular and therefore is somewhat crowded (from start to finish – I fought for space on the road), […]

This past week I participated in the Toronto Challenge Run. This running race is relatively small and local race held annually in downtown Toronto. I chose to do it because my work team registered for the event. The 4 most attractive things about registering for this race are as follows: (1) This race is CHEAP. […]

When: Evening of June 1, 2010
Where: Hamilton, East Bayfront Park
This was a 5k and 10k men’s only race, organized by VRPRO’s Kelly Arnott.
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Finally, an answer to the women’s only races that have started to become popular in the past few years. Not that I am complaining, it is just fair the guys should have their own too! 
The course start, […]

What a beautiful day for a race!!!  Team Running Free Ajax and all of the volunteers for the WIN Marathon/Half did a fabulous job with the race.  Parking was plentiful, indoor washrooms available and happy, enthusiastic, smiling faces of volunteers in abundance.Race day started out with a childrens’ 1 K race.  Children of all ages […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]