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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...

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Junk 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...

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Choosing 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...

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6 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...

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What 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...

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What 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...

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Real 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...

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What’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...

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Setting 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,...

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Why 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...

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Breaking 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...

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Running 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...

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Running: 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...

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Natural 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...

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Running, 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...

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Running 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...

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On 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...

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Empowerment 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...

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I 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...

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The 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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