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Champions on display at Women’s World Cup

Like many Canadians, I’ve been watching the FIFA Women’s World Cup over the past few weeks. As it’s worked its way around the country I’ve found it to be super […]

It takes a team

It may be considered an individual sport, but the further I move toward my running goals the more I see it takes a team. In March when I made the […]

Speeding takes time

Training for speed will become a large part of the regimen as my coach, Jason Warick, and myself move toward choosing a peak race for the fall. It’s not time […]

Ready, set, pace!

A new training race date is set! As with my blog several weeks ago, announcing a training race, I hesitate to use the exclamation point, being that this is simply […]

Minor injury, major perspective

The body does heal. Imagine that. As I quickly recover from the groin injury I wrote about last week, I’m reminded of my body’s ability to mend itself — and […]

Trust, trust, trust…and communication

I’m not calling it an injury — it’s not (right?). It’s what I’ve deemed a “tinge” and I’m overcoming it pretty quickly, of course not quickly enough in my mind […]

Acclimating to awesome weather

Wow, what a difference a month can make! I’m not talking training; I’m talking weather. It was exactly one month to this day I was writing about an obscure snowstorm that […]

Training race date set

A race day is set — I hesitate to put an explanation point on this because it will be a training race, not the race. That one will be set […]

The beauty of the breakthrough

The breakthrough, the moment your training starts to pay off, when you go from feeling totally inadequate, to fly-mode. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know I’m about a […]

From the Bike to Boylston: Cross-training gets it done

Cross-training: most runners know how important it is to overall fitness and I can attest to that as it’s playing a significant role in my own current training schedule. I […]

Tough training makes tough racers

“Snowfall warning in effect:” That’s how Saturday, April 25, in Saskatoon started. By the time it was all over, power outages had plagued the city, a race had been cancelled […]

From Terry to Boston: Big marathons with big spirit

On a day when all eyes are on the Boston Marathon, I’m going to shift gears a bit, being that I wrote about Boston last week leading into the race. […]