Posts Tagged ‘running’

Fuel and Hydration are two things that I struggle with when I’m endurance training. Thanks to some nutritional consultations with Greg prior to running the marathon I was pretty well prepared nutrition-wise going in, but when it comes to fuel and hydration DURING the events (and while training) I still struggle.
I rarely, [...]

The weather man is promising that the sun will be coming back today and lasting for the rest of the week – and not a moment too soon! I’ve missed the sun. I’m generally not someone who lets weather interfere wtih workouts (although I did on the weekend). I do live in [...]

I’ve been back over on the island visiting family this weekend so it’s been more island workouts. Comox is the BEST place to be on the August long weekend – there is a great artisan festival complete with entertainment (Spirit of the West being one of the bands – my favourite!) Nautical days [...]

Wednesday was my speedwork day for running…a 10K run at race pace followed by some intervals back at the gym. I generally love running days – I get a great sweat on, feel good afterwards and it’s always a strong workout. But I’ve also come to the conclusion that I DON’T love running [...]

I was having a conversation with a couple of my favourite workout buddies at the gym the other day and we all agreed that summer is a REALLY tough time to stick to diet plans. Working out – not a problem – the motivation to keep the bikini body combined with beautiful days for [...]

Last week I had my last long run before starting to taper, well on Friday I had my last hill/speed workout. The race feels like it’s still a long way away, but also so close at the same time. Yesterday I bought some milk with an expiry date the day AFTER the race. [...]

Wednesday I had one of my most intense training runs to date – and it was fantastic! I had been talking to Devin about building my distance back up to be marathon ready and we decided it would be a good idea to add a second longer run mid-week to add some kms [...]

This week my Sunday run route took me along part of the Vancouver Marathon route (or if you prefer the marathon was set up along part of my regular run route :p). As I started out there was a large number of marathon and half-marathon runners coming towards me – all in the 2nd [...]

Ok – now that I’m fully back into running again it was time to pull out the speed work – and boy did I need it!! I met up with Devin for our Friday run and he informed me that we were going to change things up a bit – first a speed run [...]

More positive news in the world of injury recovery – I don’t have to do physio anymore!! At least not for awhile anyway. After taking a couple of weeks off running to let my IT/hammy/knee heal up (and finding my return to running was pain free) I went to see my physio for [...]