Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

Good week of training. Increased my volume of aerobic training from the last week by over 4 hours. I also finished the week by doing some “Trad Climbing” in Squamish with Chris and let me tell you I am in f*cking pain. Endurance athletes have weak upper bodies and it showed today. Chris told me […]

The Final Sprint has an amazing interview with Ryan Hall the new American half-marathon record-holder. Check it out. This podcast is definitely worth subscribing to they are rumored to have a lot of great interviews coming up.

The last week was filled with crap weather which meant a couple of missed workouts. I also conclude I am fat. I still have not lost the pounds I put on during the holiday break. The scale says 161 I feel soft.
January 15
Bike commute.
Time: 1:08
My first bike commute in over a month, I found […]

Flocast has a couple cool interviews with some amazing Canadian talents.
Simon Bairu is one of the top NCAA XC runners and the top Canadian XC runner 5 years running. His future is bright. Watch the interview here.
Canadian middle distance legend Kevin Sullivan is also interviewed here. Mentions in the interview he ran a 1:53/800m […]

Week two of training was pretty low key. It snowed in Vancouver so I missed one workout because of ice.
January 10th
Easy Run to Cambie
Time: 0:42:16
Ave HR: 161 bpm
Max HR: 191
January 11th
Snowshoe Grouse Mountain
Time: 0:47:26
Ave HR: 162 bpm
Max HR: 192
This was with the Grouse Mountain Snowshoe clinic. My first time snowshoeing at night very surreal. Tough […]

Funny spoof on the Nike+iPod system.
I feel like this sometimes with my nano, GPS and cellphone.
How did they run in the 90’s?

Well I am officially training again. I have a snowshoe race on the 20th so I have to gain a little bit of fitness and shed some lbs before then.
Here is a summary of last weeks training.
*I got a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS/Heart Rate Monitor for Xmas my workout digest can be viewed here.
Clicking […]

Geb just hangs behind Aussie elite Craig Mottram until the final stretch where he drops the hammer. Amazing leg turnover!

Well it’s a New Year so that means time for some resolutions. Here are mine for 2007:
1) The classic lose weight. I gained a fair amount of weight during my lay off from running due to injury. I am now sitting at 165 which is 15 pounds over my ideal running/racing weight. Some people say […]