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What I Tried This Week: Running Drills

With the spring race rush having died down, it’s time to focus on the fall race season. For me, this […]

Tips For Pacing an Ultra Runner

June 13 was the Laurel Highlands Ultra in Pennsylvania which offered 70.5-mile, 50K and relay options to runners along the […]

What I Tried This Week: Racing for a Solid 48 Hours

Yes, you read the title correctly. This time, I truly did test my limits and this was the first race […]

What I Tried This Week: Running the Boston Marathon

This past Monday, I lined up to race the Boston Marathon after a cold, Canadian winter. With the nasty weather […]

What I Tried This Week: Avoiding Pre-Race Illness

I find it exceptional that as the date of a big race draws closer, the people around me get sicker. […]

What I Tried This Week: Race Simulation

Last weekend I did my last key workout before the Boston Marathon and the entire point of it was to […]

What I Tried This Week: Tackling Stress

One thing I find I often discount as a runner is the role that life stress plays in my training. […]

What I tried this week: Running through disaster

One of the most exceptional things for me when looking at disaster or adversity is that whenever things in life […]

Blood donations while training

Recently at my office, there was a call for blood donations and I wanted to do my part so I […]

What I tried this week: Magnesium supplements

As my training started to ramp up for Boston, I began to get twitchy (not from excitement). I found myself […]

Cold Weather Running

I like to think I am a tough runner; I’m capable of burrowing deep into the pain cave in the […]

What I Tried This Week: Bone Broth

Winter temperatures are a little cold for comfort at the moment and it is the time of year that I […]