Lisa was out getting the Best Wife Ever award tonight 😄 so it was just me and Bridget for the runchat. We decided to meet up a bit earlier (6pm). We ran from Bayview station to the finch corridor and came back via the Don River Trail. We ended at the Starbucks by Canadian Tire …
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I've been celebrating my birthday since last Saturday but yesterday was my actual birthday. Instead of celebrating my birthday with my family, I ran with the ninjas! This is how I know I am addicted to running! As I was running out of my house, an SUV pulls onto my street and I realized it …
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm getting back into a routine again. Last night, we did our Thursday night run to the cemetery. The flowers were in full bloom and so beautiful. The weather was perfect for running. However, toward the end of our run, it started to get dark. It makes me a …
Last week, out of the blue, the other Lisa from the RunNinjas messaged me to ask if I would be interested in buying her road bike because she knew I was starting to train for a triathlon. I know absolutely nothing about bikes and I was definitely not in the market for a bike. But …
It's been 3 weeks since The San Francisco Marathon. I haven't blogged since the race report but a lot has happened since then! The pain in my ankle that I briefly felt during and after the race came back the day after the marathon, with a vengeance. I ended up taking 1 week off running …
I almost didn't go running on Wednesday. I still had lots of work to do and I still needed to finish packing. But I tore myself away from my keyboard and rushed to MEC. We did 6x600m intervals. It was hotter than I thought it would be, it felt harder than normal, but I'm glad …
I'm doing the TTF Olympic distance relay tomorrow. TTF will always have a special place in my heart because it's where I caught the running bug again, after a 10-year hiatus from running. Last year, out of the blue, I asked Charlotte if she wanted to do a triathlon relay with me. To my surprise, …
Mike joined us for the first time on Thursday. He's training for the New York Marathon in Nov. How exciting! He told us it's a lottery system but as an international runner, you can pay a bit more to a travel agent to secure your entry which is what he did. Turns out "a bit …
We did the Kenyan intervals again today: 13 x 1 minute hard followed by 1 minute recovery (I walked). It felt a bit easier today than last time we did it. Maybe because it wasn't as hot. Lisa kept reminding me I'm supposed to be tapering but it's so hard to go slow when I'm …
It rained really hard yesterday during the day so I didn't think it was going to rain in the evening during our run. Boy, was I wrong! I was totally unprepared for rain. I didn't wear my waterproof shoes, I didn't wear a visor, and I didn't even think about my new waterproof jacket that …
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