2-3 weeks before your goal race, you should start tapering which simply means to reduce your volume while keeping the same frequency. Tapering allows your body to recover and restores glycogen stores in your body for optimal performance on race day. Keep running the same number of days but reduce the volume by 30% each …
Tag: Recovery
Why is it so hard to run easy?
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 …
The week after…
It's been a week since the Toronto Marathon. I was in a lot of pain on Monday. My shin felt like there were little knives inside. 😱 I went to see Dr. Gill and got another round of electroacupuncture. Thankfully, the pain gradually subsided throughout the week. By the time I saw her again on …
Recovering from the mother of all flu’s
Two days after I came back from Jamaica, I caught the mother of all flu's. I was in bed for 3 days. I had no appetite and didn't even have enough energy to chew an apple. I basically survived on water and Nuun for a few days. The good news is I lost 8lbs (who …
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 …
Free food, free swag, free run and run free
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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Race report: Shakespeare Runs the Night 30k “Race Weekend”
I signed up for this race on a whim a couple of months ago. I really can't remember what happened but Lisa, Tracey, and I seem to all have different versions of the story. The only thing I remember is Lisa and Tracey saying they would sign up for it and then, all of a …
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Injuries are the worst!
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 …
New run buddies
Lisa and I went to Costco after work then rushed back to MEC for a run at 7:15pm. Who does that?? We are next level badass now. 😂 Ravi joined us for the first time. He had been messaging me on Instagram for the past few weeks so I'm glad he was finally able to …
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