I had a lot of firsts today: For the first time, I did a pre-run before the MEC Ninja run. Thankfully, Lisa came to run with me before she went biking. We ended up doing 7.5km together in under 45 minutes - great pace! For the first time, I baked a banana bread to share …
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Race Report: Toronto Women’s Half Marathon
I ran the Toronto Women's Half Marathon yesterday. The good news: I ran a PB. 😍 The bad news: I missed my sub-2 goal by 6.4 seconds. 😣 If you want to know the details, read on. Warning: Some of the details below may completely gross you out. Read at your own risk. Prologue I …
Shortcut to Distillery District
The ninjas ran 18km from MEC to Distillery District this morning. Since I'm running the Toronto Women's Half Marathon tomorrow, I subwayed to Rosedale and joined them at Bayview and Rosedale Valley Road. I only ended up running 8.3km which is about what I wanted to do today. My original plan was to get off …
Jim’s Hill Hell continues
It was raining so hard this morning that as soon as I stepped out of the house, I wanted to crawl back into bed. I knew it was raining but I didn't know it was raining that hard. By the time I got to the end of my street, I was already all soaked. I …
Don’t ask me about my weekend
I'm starting to get to the point where I feel like I'm talking about running too much, especially at work. If I were my colleagues, I would be bored of hearing about my running. But because it's such a big part of my life, it's hard to not talk about it. Here are some examples …
Race report: Sporting Life 10k
This is the 2nd time I've run this race. The first time was 10 years ago and all I remember was that it was really cold while we were waiting in the corral. It's a net downhill course and I've never been more prepared so I was definitely hoping for a PB. Here's how it …
Ninja intervals
Last night's ninja training was pyramid intervals on the track. We had to go hard intervals of 0.5 lap, 1 lap, 1.5 laps, 1.5 laps, 1 lap, 0.5 lap. Each hard interval was followed by 0.5 lap of recovery. It was a hard workout! The hot weather didn't help either. Both Lisa and I originally …
Chasing Energizer Bunnies 👯♂️👯♀️
This week is cherry blossom week. We saw a few blossoms on Monday but they weren't in full bloom yet so I didn't take a picture. I hope to see more blooms throughout the week. A couple of new people came out including a mom from the NYM group. It was encouraging to see her …
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 …
Dodging snails, earthworms, and deer
Today was slightly drizzly but warm which I thought was the perfect weather for running. Because of the rain, the snails and earthworms also came out so we were dodging them left, right, and center along the Finch corridor. I'm not sure whether Lisa was dodging them because she didn't want to kill them or …
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