Last night, Lisa and I had to do 14k so we did 2 loops of the People's Church route with Tracey and Benny. Ravi also found us toward the end of our first loop. For the most part, we ran together and chatted most of the way. It's great to have so many people running …
Category: Training
Running in the dark
We started at 7:10pm, our usual Thursday night runchat time. We ran down the Jolly Green Giant and into the Don River Trail. I didn't expect it to get dark so quickly. Toward the end, it got so dark (and scary) that we ran as fast as we could out of the trail. I've never …
Jim and his whistle
Here we go again with Jim and his whistle. Wednesday night's workout was 1 minute intervals followed by 1 minute recoveries at the track for 25 minutes. Apparently, this is how the Kenyans train. 😅 Jim told me to go at a 4:20ish pace for the intervals, which is slightly faster than my 5k race …
Group shower in the night
I thought I would be late getting to the run at People's Church yesterday. I was at a downtown event that ended at 6pm so I had less than 1 hour to get uptown. Luckily I got a ride with Charlotte and Earl so I didn't have to take the TTC. I didn't want to …
Graphic content: Reader Discretion Advised
On Mar 31, I wrote this blog post which mentioned some pain in my right middle toe. Well, for the past couple of weeks, I knew something was wrong with that toe nail. It no longer felt "connected". Lo and behold, the nail finally fell off a couple of days ago. Or, should I say, …
6 weeks to STWM
We did a 25k run today. I ran to Lisa's house (3k) and then Lisa and I tried to run toward the reservoir but realized we had to head back to MEC for 8:30am before we made it there. We will do it next time! We ran to the Aga Khan Museum and took some …
Bagel talk
What a difference one day makes! We had perfect running weather on Thursday! Benny and I started running together at the beginning. He is a huge foodie and fellow bagel connoisseur. Gillian had told him about my love of bagels so we started runchatting about bagels. We were so engrossed by our #bageltalk we didn't …
Just survive
Wednesday night's run was held in a sauna. "Just survive" was the motto of the day. Thankfully, Jim had mercy on us and let us run intervals at Bayview park which is mostly shaded and has a splash pad for us to cool off. Unfortunately, the water fountain wasn't working so those who didn't bring …
Running in Huntsville
On Labour Day, I woke up and decided to go for an 8km run outside because 1) I can, 2) it was on our training plan, and 3) I knew that some of the ninjas were going to be running an 8km in Toronto so I channeled their energy and got myself out of bed, …
“Duathlon”
Today, Lisa and I did a 5km pre-run then did a 15km long run with the Ninjas. We ran to Edwards Gardens where there were flowers and an elephant 🐘. I brought an Endurance Tap for the run. It was very sweet but I liked how you can drink little sips at a time because …
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