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What I Tried this Week – Doing an Organized Run on New Year’s Day

I have had some pretty memorable New Year’s Eves in my lifetime, such as totalling my car on a patch of […]

What I tried this week: Keeping a fitness journal

Recently, I was at the physiotherapist and he was asking about my training a number of weeks prior. I pulled […]

What I Tried This Week: Switching Up Pre-Workout Nutrition

I have found there to be a lot of differing opinions on eating pre-workout, especially first thing in the morning. […]

What I tried this week: Consistent core work

One of the first things that goes by the wayside for me in the summer is strength training. I still […]

What I tried this week: Understanding the injured runner

Twelve very long weeks ago, I was diagnosed with two stress fractures in my tibia. I recently read that the stages for […]

What I tried this week: Defying my Physiotherapist

Recently, while lying on a massage table with needles stuck in my leg, getting treatment for my healing stress fractures, […]

What I Tried This Week: An Osteopath

I have had a lot of experience with specialists in my time as a runner. Massage therapists, naturopaths, physiotherapists, coaches, […]

What I Tried This Week: Sticking to Training on Vacation

Sticking to my training schedule has become a force of habit over the course of a number of racing seasons. […]

What I tried this week: Pool running

There is nothing worse than being sidelines for a month during one of the best running times of the year. […]

What I tried this week: A run club

There is nothing quite like launching yourself onto a public forum and leaving yourself at the mercy of others, but […]