There are a lot of titles I'm proud to hold. I'm a road runner, a trail runner, an ultra runner, a climber, a skier, a piano player, a burrito maker, a caesar drinker, a mountain lover, a big sister. I wear all of these different hats with pride and I am so thrilled to have … Continue reading Mountain Motivation
I like numbers. I actually get a considerable amount of joy out of numbers and interpreting and analyzing data. Since I was young I was always pretty decent at math and I like to think I made numbers my bitch. There may have been a brief period during university where numbers definitely made me their … Continue reading Do or do not, there is no try. But there is a tomorrow, so whatever just do it then.
I ran the MEC Calgary Race #1 Half Marathon last weekend with a dirty, dirty hangover. I went out for happy hour after work the night before, which turned into happy-5-hours. I reasoned that drinking wine was technically carbo-loading, that the 21.1 km that awaited me the next day was not a goal race and … Continue reading The Hungover Half
Today I started training for my first big running goal of 2017, the BMO Vancouver Marathon; the ultimate goal being to run it in a Boston-qualifying time. I'll follow a 16 week plan that I discovered last year and saw awesome results from, the FIRST Training program. It seems kind of counter-intuitive at first, with … Continue reading BMO Vancouver Marathon: I’m coming for you!
I've never read a running blog I didn't like, mostly because they all turn out to have some sort of underlying life lesson. I find it extremely easy to relate to others' running experiences, even when they are polar opposites to my own. As we all share our race reports, goals and aspirations, training tactics, … Continue reading Welcome to my running brain
This one time I went running 