Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

Well the holidays are almost over for me (Monday is the official end), I am back in Vancouver after spending time in Mission visiting Tara’s family, Saskatoon visiting my parents and Calgary visiting my sister and brother in-law. Tara and I were spoiled like always. We consumed way too much food drink and now […]

No posts for awhile I haven’t been doing much running wise been busy with work and feeling a little under the weather. I have been hitting the climbing gym weekly for last few months though and have been progressing quite rapidly. I feel great in that respect very strong and “solid”, one thing runners become […]

I am finally back in action! This weekend I raced the Hallow’s Eve Half Marathon which is part of the Ironlung trail series. I wasn’t planning on running this event but Eric emailed me asking if I wanted an entry so I thought why they hell not I need to get a quality run […]

Training works. It’s interesting how 2 months ago a 1:30 hilly trail run was tough now a 3 hr run is hard but not that hard. All my little pains have disappeared. I felt really solid on Saturday’s 3 hr long run. I am still doing the carb restriction on my run which is […]

This weekend was my first double long session in several years and I forgot how hard they are and I didn’t even go that long!
Sat 1:38 Hilly, Sunday 1:51 hilly just over 40k for the two days, the other workouts for the week where 2 x 1:10 minutes runs on the trails. This is a […]

Another good week of training. I managed 4 “quality sessions” this week and dumped the base mile days to help with recovery. The highlight of the week came from the long run on Saturday. I was hoping to get a around a three hour run in so I thought why the hell not run to […]

This is kind of funny I emailed the Outside Gear Guy a question about shoes for a 50 miler and he answered.
Here is the response. I hear the Salomon shoes are Ok but I don’t care that much about keeping my feet dry I will only be out there for 6-7 hours.

OK week of training nothing out of the ordinary just putting more miles in the bank. I decided to bail on the 5peaks on Saturday and planned on doing a gentler long run instead. The long run turned out to be not so gentle though. I ran from the Grouse parking along the Baden Powell […]

Another good week of training under the belt. The week consisted of 2×50 minute runs, 1×1:30, 1×1:05 and 1×2:00 hour long run half of it being on the very challenging Diez Vista trail at Buntzen Lake. I have never run on the Diez Vista trail before and wanted to do a little recon before […]

Good week of training. 5 solid days 3 being strength days, a Grouse Grind on Tuesday, Hill Repeats on Wednesday and a killer HILLY long run. The other 2 workouts were easy 50:00-1:10 minute runs. The long run was another classic Vancouver ultra training route the base of Grouse->Lynn and return to Grouse Chalet via […]