Endurance Junky

I should start referring to this as my weekly whine and complain blog. This week saw my return to racing, I entered the Ironlung 10k Run Inn Sane Trail Race which is a great trail run through Pacific Spirit Park but unfortunately for me it was also a painful experience… I saw 300 the night [...]

Week 11 was a mini vacation week. I went out to Calgary to visit family. It was a good break we did some pretty cool hikes and snowshoes up in Kananaskis and Lake Louise which were kind of hard coming from sea level. One snowshoe we were around 7000ft in soft snow which I found [...]

Training sort of. Still recovering from my slow climb out of the injury/dead leg hole. I was reading IMPACT magazine and they had a section and body weight and race performance. They mentioned that if you are carrying over 7% of your “race weight” you are at higher risk of injuries… well I am in [...]

Cool little article in the Escapes section of the NY Times. It’s really cool because I was mentioned Tough Tests With Softer Footing By STEPHEN REGENOLD Published: March 9, 2007 This spring, dozens of trail-running races around the country are expected to draw crowds of enthusiastic contestants and spectators. Also note the author Stephen Regenold [...]

From reading the recent trail running article in the Georgia Straight I came across the new Canadian Mountain Running website. I have to say it’s about time, the previous site had very little info on the team/association. From the site info it seems that the Canmore Challenge will be the NACAC Championship race this year [...]

This week more or less sucked for training. My right hip flexor was beyond tight so I decided to drop the bike commuting and do only shory “easy runs”. Hopefully I can have a good week of training this week. I was planning on doing the Harry Rosen 8k on Sunday which seems pretty unlikely [...]