Today is a big day for a few reasons. It is my first day back to structured training. I am hopping back into regular workouts from my coach (you can read a bit about why I am with this particular coach here). It is Cyber Monday. This is the day where I try to clear off what… Read More…
Injury Prevention and Weekend Training
Welcome back to another week! Ontario has been hit by a wave of amazing weather. Seriously. I was training and racing in bare hands this weekend and it was amazing. Saturday I headed out for a morning run on the trails with these amazing people. It was a lot of fun to discover new-to-me… Read More…
How to do a 225 KM cycle…and not die
About a month ago, my friend Todd and I were on a long ride from Toronto to Burlington and he mentioned that he had never cycled furthered than 190 KM in a single day and mentioned he had always wanted to do a 200 KM ride. I immediately insisted we needed to make it happen,… Read More…
Some of my favourite things and a giveaway!
You know those weeks where the weather is perfect? That was 100% this week. It could just be the fact that I am back to running and I am grinning ear to ear. Every night after work, I head out on another test run, slightly longer than the one before and gleefully report with a… Read More…
Momentum Monday: A Challenge
Welcome back to another week of awesome, friends! This weekend, I had a friend’s wedding on Friday and spent Saturday and Sunday in Toronto training and attending the PanAM games. Some of you noticed that in some of the training photos, one of the things is not like the others… Firstly, I wanted to thank you all for… Read More…
Momentum Monday: LAST LONG RUN
You GUYS! It is only 7 days until I will be lining up to run my first race of the season and my first Boston marathon of life. I am so so so soooooo ready. Yesterday, I had my last “long” run before Boston and it went so unbelievably well. My legs are fresh and… Read More…
Momentum Monday: The Toronto Bike Show
Aw yeah. The best thing about coming through one of the worst weeks ever is that you know it is ONLY uphill from here. This week, I am looking forward to NOT being in two car accidents, stroking some huge work projects off my list and hopefully getting my little car back and finding renters… Read More…
The Village Juicery
I don’t know about you, but drinking enough fluids in the winter is HARD. Nothing makes me want to increase my coffee consumption like a nice -22 C day and my corner of the world has had quite a few of those lately. In the spirit of keeping my hydration levels up during winter, I… Read More…
Track Drills and Beet Juice
Welcome to the first week of August, friends! It was an awesome weekend for me that was a perfect balance of relaxation and hard work! Friday night was kicked off with a nice hard long run, fuelled by beet juice. I saw my naturopath last weekend and she suggested that in between my hard… Read More…
TYS10K Recap
Happy long weekend everyone! I hope you all are treating yourselves to a bit of a sleep in and relaxing morning. I know I am! Let’s talk about races, in particular, The Yonge Street 10 KM that I raced last weekend. I always learn something from races, especially the ones that don’t go well. This… Read More…
