If you are someone who avoids hills like the plague, take a deep breathe and repeat after me... "Hills are good for me." "Hills are speedwork in disguise."Frank Shorter, winner of the 1972 Olympic marathon Back in the day, our runcrew leader used to make us run a "4x4+1" hills workout. It consisted of running …
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To PB or not to PB
Last year, someone in the San Francisco Marathon FB group asked me if I was running ATB. At the time, I didn't even know what ATB was. Turns out the Around the Bay 30k in Hamilton is the oldest road race in North America. One of its taglines is "Older than Boston". 😁 Since 2019 …
Running is my therapy
I started getting a sore throat yesterday so I took a Nyquil before bed last night. Thankfully, my sore throat is pretty much gone but I was still feeling off the whole day today. When I got to MEC, I was pretty tired. If it wasn't for the Ninjas, I would have just gone home …
Green Monster on Repeat
We decided to slay the Green Monster again...3 times! At first, I was like, "What was I thinking? This hill is so long! Whose idea was this?!?!" After one rep, I thought, "Okay, that wasn't too bad. I can do this again." After the second rep, I told myself, "Just one more. You can do …
Cherry blossom runchat
Yesterday was a 12k recovery run. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom. More people are joining us now that the weather is nice. There is no excuse. I mostly ran with Dave today and circled back after 1 loop to pick up Lisa for our 2nd loop. Tracey ended up running the 2nd loop …
Slaying the green monster
According to my training plan, I had to do 22km today. However, a lot of ninjas did a shorter shakeout run as part of their taper for tomorrow's Toronto Marathon. Fortunately, Lisa agreed to do my long run with me so I was happy. We ran to the end of the Don River Trail and …
Jim’s 4×4 killer hills
I will be missing tomorrow's ninja training because of a work event so I decided to do my 8km training today. Lisa graciously agreed to join me and we did Jim's 4x4 killer hills. Thanks Lisa!! It was a really nice day and lots of people were on the trail. I wondered what they were …
Ran a “short” 11km today
Since I already ran 19km on Thursday, I gave myself a break and only did 11km today. It felt good to do a "shorter" distance but it's also crazy to think that 11km is now considered short. We ran up the "Graydon Hall Hill Hell" today for the first time - what an appropriate name! …
Ready for the apocalypse
Ice pellets, meet eyeballs. Eyeballs, meet ice pellets. That was the kind of Spring weather we had today. I kept on thinking that I would be the first person in history to be blinded by ice pellets and wished I had worn my sunglasses despite the lack of sun. I had to do 18km today. …
Some people have buns of steel, I had legs of lead tonight
Had a crappy day at work today so I was looking forward to running with the ninjas tonight. I had a big bowl of ramen at lunch but didn't have a pre-run snack like I usually do. So when I got to MEC and Jim offered me a protein bar sample, I was excited... until …
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