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 …
Tag: Marathon training
Happy runniversary to me
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 …
How I built my marathon training plan
This Saturday will be our last long run before we start tapering for #STWM. I can't believe it's coming up so quickly! Lisa and I only started to train 7 weeks ago which would typically not be enough for marathon training but we had a good (4x/week) base to build from so it's all good. …
Summer nights
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 …
Race report: RBC Race for the Kids 14k
Originally, I wasn't planning on doing this race but our #STWM training plan had us doing 27km this weekend and since Lisa had already signed up eons ago, she told me to sign up because it's "free". Except that it's not really free because there's a minimum $100 donation. I didn't want to put that …
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 …
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 …
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