Tomorrow is the fourth race of the 5 peaks trail running series. Salomon is the main sponsor and is there every race with demo shoes. I’ve demoed this same pair every race this year and fell in love with them. Finally bought my own today for tomorrows race at Nikiska.
Oh Nike vomero’s, how I love you. I bought a new pair today. So nice. This is my fouth pair and the only shoe I’ll run in. Pricey but worth every cent. Put these on and it’s like running on clouds with herds of unicorns and rainbows shooting out your ass. Really they are that …
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Mike and I started our training today. We signed up for a running clinic with the running room to train for a half marathon. It was pretty fun. I’m used to running alone most of the time, but it was cool to hang with the big guy and get out of the house. I initially …
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This weekend I ran a marathon in Victoria, BC. After training for five months I was ready to get it done. There are some other fitness goals I want to work on, running was taking up a lot of time. Doing something like this is can be a selfish pursuit. A lot of time is …
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Tamara kicked ass at her 5K race on Sunday! The race was early Sunday morning at Bowness Park. It looked like a pretty fun run. She even won a pretty nice gym bag as a door prize. Tamara’s eagerly awaiting the posting of the official results, but we know she did it in about 28 …
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Today was the day. After nine weeks of training I was glad to get it over with. I was up at 5AM to eat and digest before the 7AM start. I as a little anxious as I headed to the race. The start and finish are only two blocks away, super convenient. My goal was …
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Yesterday’s run was killer. Rob and I did 20K at a 9:00 pace. We managed to hold the pace and it felt really good. Cardio was not stressful at all. I still had enough gas to sprint the last few hundred meters. All this bodes well the half marathon. I plan on running that at …
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