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Category: General Running and/or Fitness
November 6, 2013
On Uniforms
While cheering on runners during the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon events a couple of weekends ago, I noticed a lot of running uniforms featuring club affiliations as well as charity logos. It made me think a lot about the nature of how an individual sport like running can also have a team aspect. I understand and appreciate that elites wear uniforms to display their team and/or national colours for sponsorship purposes. I imagine that the logos on elite runner uniforms are really important for their sponsors. I recognized the Running Room sponsored athletes. I noticed all the Kenyan elites in[…continue reading]
November 4, 2013
Dopey Training: Week Minus One
As far as I’m concerned 2013 is already a bad memory. My last race of 2013 is in the bag and I feel like I learned a lot of hard lessons from my struggles this year. I’m already squarely focused on 2014! Andrea made a really nice comment on my last post: Here’s to the end of the 2013 running season and onto great things in 2014. I have huge hopes for 2014, so I might as well start now: Run the Walt Disney World Dopey Challenge is right at the start of 2014 which will include my first full marathon[…continue reading]
October 26, 2013
Niagara Half-Marathon Goals
It feels like I just wrote one of these last week! This Sunday I’m running the Niagara Falls Half-Marathon. I suppose I’ll call this my actual goal race for this lousy season since last week was ‘only 5k’. Normally I also scoff at a half-marathon too as ‘only a half.’ I started this season with a marathon training schedule and some long runs of almost 26km. But because of injury, illness and other setbacks, it looks like an almost insurmountable mountain. Normally the phrase “trust your training” is reassuring, but my training really hasn’t been there. I also sometimes hear[…continue reading]
