I am forever grateful to the North York RunNinjas. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to run so consistently and have the courage to train for my first marathon.

Each Wednesday, the ninjas do some kind of speed, intervals, or hills training. Tonight’s ninja training consisted of 2km warm up, 14 x 300m intervals around the track, and 2km cool down.

How I felt:

As always, I felt out of breath in the first few km so I was huffing and puffing while running to the track. According to Strava, I ran between 4-5:00 min/km for my hard intervals and around 6:00 for recovery. Overall, I felt it was a good pace for me and I got a 5k PB (YAY!). I even pushed myself at the end and got a PB at the Canadian Tire “Are we there yet?” hill! (double YAY!)

Nutrition log:

• Pre-run: 30 almonds and 1 banana 2 hours before the run
• Mid-run: water
• Post-run dinner: this was the first time I actually wanted to eat dinner after a run so I had a young coconut water + meat, bibimbap, Chinese soup, strawberry mango banana smoothie for dessert 😍