One of my athletes inspired this post this week. Her name rhymes with Fahra. 😝 Polarized training is a pretty established concept in the world of endurance sport. It's when you do >80% of your training at low-intensity and up to 20% at high-intensity. Many studies have found that this approach delivers a greater performance …
When I started training for my first marathon, I searched online for a training plan. I found a few free plans but none of them really fit my schedule. At the time, I was running 4 times a week with a couple of different groups on specific days with specific distances so I wanted something …
Pretty happy about my training this week. On Sunday, I dragged myself to the pool. It took every ounce of self-discipline to get there because no one else came with me. When I got to the parking lot, it was full. I thought about just driving home. I'm glad I didn't. I swam 60 laps …
I took 2 weeks off work over the holidays. I was able to run, swim, or skate every day during these 2 weeks. It was bliss! Tomorrow is back to work 😩 but it's also the start of my training plan for ATB30K and Toronto Marathon! 😊Mar 30 and May 5 seem so far away …
Jim always comes up with great ideas to make our runs fun and meaningful. Because it's our last RunNinjas run of 2018, he took us to "Resolution Cres" and then got us to share our running goals for 2019 when we got back to the store. It was fascinating and humbling to hear everyone share …
Last night, I looked at my Strava stats and realized that I have run 2336km so far this year. Since it's so close to 2400km, I decided to make that my goal for the next 8 days. I figured 64km in 8 days is totally doable, especially since I'm not working this week. 😊 So …
Happy Thanksgiving! 2 weeks to #STWM!! Today, a group of us subwayed downtown to run the second half of the #STWM route. Originally, our training schedule had us running 20k on Saturday and 14k today. It was Lisa's idea to swap the distances so we can run more of the #STWM route. I'm so glad …
Wow, where did Sept go?? It's already October 1 which means less than 3 weeks to #STWM. We ran our longest long run (32km) on Saturday. We did a pre-run to the Rainbow tunnel and then ran with the Ninjas to the reservoir. We averaged slightly faster than our target marathon pace (6:03/km) so that's …
On Saturday, my whole family did the ZooRun 5k together. It was great to share this race experience with my husband and kids. It was a double run day for me because in the morning, the Ninjas did a sunrise run at 6:30am to celebrate the first day of Autumn. Jim also organized a breakfast …
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, …
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