Running and Sleep
You need more sleep. You don’t get enough sleep. You should go to bed earlier. “How are you functioning with such little sleep?” It probably sounds like something you have heard so much and so often...
View ArticleJunk Miles
If you’ve been running for a while, and spending lots of time training and slogging out your miles, you may have come across the concept of junk miles. The idea that some of the miles you are running...
View ArticleChoosing Running Sneakers
I really hate it when people say how cheap running is and that it’s a great sport to take up if you don’t want to have to spend a lot of money. If you knew how hard it was for me to save money as a...
View Article6 Mental Strategies for Runners
We have heard it time and time again, and likely personally experienced it even more, but it’s totally true: running is all about your mental game. And sometimes even more so than physically. Often...
View ArticleWhat we can Learn from Races
I don’t believe that you have to race to be considered a runner. I don’t believe that you have to race to prove your times or prove your ability or prove your status and legitimacy as a runner. I don’t...
View ArticleWhat Running has Taught me about Gratitude
I’ve found myself incredibly nostalgic these last few days. I’ve been watching every Boston Instagram story, every Runner’s World and BAA update and post race story and woke up in the middle of the...
View ArticleReal Talk: Motivation
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately listening to podcasts. Specifically, Nicole Antionette’s Real Talk Radio. I listen to them when I’m driving, doing mundane, no-concentration required tasks, or...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with my running? Real talk on the ebb and flow of running
I hit the edge of the driveway, slowing down and coming to a stop at the same time that I hear the familiar beep from stopping my watch. I don’t even want to look at it. I don’t want to look at the...
View ArticleSetting up a Running Routine: Implementing a system to help you achieve your...
There’s something to be said for routine. There’s something to be said for doing the same thing, in the same order at the same time, every day. Like in the morning, how you wake up, have a shower,...
View ArticleWhy you should start trail running
Last weekend I ran my first trail race. I’ve done a fair amount of trail running, mostly just with the motivation of getting out into the woods, into the wild, amongst the trees, along the ocean, or in...
View ArticleBreaking Barriers: Ending Exercise Excuses
One of my favourite things about helping people with their health and wellness is allowing them see that there is a way. They show up discouraged and uncertain, not knowing where to turn or how to...
View ArticleRunning Real Talk: It’s not supposed to be easy
When you run a lot, you inevitably end up talking about running. If I’m being quite honest, I don’t talk about it on my own accord, in that I don’t typically bring it up and try to yak on about my...
View ArticleRunning: Adopting a Growth Mindset
I remember crossing the finish line of a half marathon a few months ago, with that sinking feeling of knowing things just didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to. That feeling of some combination of...
View ArticleNatural Endurance: Running on Plant-Based Energy Sources
Running literally, or just trying to run through life. Running the trails, or just trying to run from place to place and stay high enough on energy to make it through the day. Running in a race, or...
View ArticleRunning, Gut Health and Making your own Fuel
Ask any runner about their worst case scenario when it comes to racing or long runs, and chances are it will be something related to gut. Anything like nausea, unexpected bathroom trips, cramps, or...
View ArticleRunning with Resilience
A few years ago when I travelled solo around the world I used to get asked all the time “What did you learn?” “How was it?” “Wasn’t it hard and scary to be by yourself?” Well sometimes. But aren’t all...
View ArticleOn Practicing Running
I’ve been hitting this new level of running happiness and joy over the last few weeks. This level that I have never really hit before, that is perpetuated by the success of each day before, and that...
View ArticleEmpowerment in Movement
I started running nearly 16 years ago. I remember when I first started and was getting into it, falling in love with this ability to push myself to limits. This ability physically and this ability in...
View ArticleI Could Have Stayed Home in my Comfort Zone
I hit the driveway and slowed down to walking, feeling my left quad finally start to ease in the release of the pounding and movement. It had started to hurt ten kilometers back – just the feeling of...
View ArticleThe Aftermath of a Marathon: Resiliency, What to Wear and What you can Learn...
When the high starts to fade, you start to more easily be able to walk down the stairs, and it becomes a few days enough past the race that you stop wearing your medal around your neck, you start to...
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