All Entries in the "Running" Category
A workout video to bookmark: Running drills to improve your form, strength and speed
In my post on Sunday, I wrote about how I’ve just started another half marathon running clinic, training for my sixth half marathon. Thanks for your comments, support and especially your questions! I’ve had a few questions from people about running drills, specifically what other drills there are besides the “ABC’s” that I mentioned on [...]
I did it!
Hi Ladies, I DID IT!!! Yes, I am now a proud owner of a half marathon medal!!!! Wow, what an experience. Let’s start the day or night before. I did what my running partner, Farida had told me to do. Eat, drink lots of water, lay everything out and get a good night sleep. I [...]
I shall get my medal this Sunday!!
Well the count down is on, my friends! This Sunday I shall be getting that medal that I have wanted for a few years now. A few years ago I had trained hard to prepare for my first half marathon, the Fall Classic. When I got to the end I didn’t get a medal. At [...]
The fitness fashion I love to run away with
Last spring I was strolling through my neighborhood Target, when I saw a super cute running SKIRT with a matching tank on the end of an aisle.
Run Joe, Run: Joe’s hilarious letter to his running friends
Do you know Joe? Joe is a friend of the Girls (and our hubbies), and a very funny guy. Now I realize he is also crazy, but in my book that’s a mark FOR him, not against him. A few days ago, Joe sent this letter out to his running friends. It’s so funny, I [...]
Training for the Fall Classic
Susan~ I have been training for lets say “my medal”; instead of saying “the race”, in the fall classic. I say that, because I haven’t really been able to do too much running these days. Six months ago I was all gun ho in training for this half marathon. But then life changed a lot [...]
5 Ways to Run Smarter at Night
As winter approaches the days are quickly becoming shorter and for many runners it gets increasingly difficult to fit a run in during daylight hours. Night running is never the safest option for any runner but if you run in the evening you need to be prepared for the unexpected. Follow these five tips to [...]
How to Survive an Ultra Marathon
~Rebecca, Diets in Review Because completing my first Olympic distance triathlon was not enough, I decided to follow up a week later with my first ultra marathon – a 50K (31 mile) trail race in The North Face Endurance Challenge series! If you’re surprised, trust me, I was too! I actually thought I was competing [...]
20 Unexpected Things I Learned From Running
~Melanie Because I am a runner myself, I don’t mind taking the heat for saying this: runners are a weird bunch. Bizarre. Peculiar. Obsessive, even. Not to mention downright compulsive. I don’t know if we are drawn to running because we are strange, or whether the heat we generate while running melts some of our [...]
Girls gone running: mom and daughter take on 5k
~Melanie Last weekend I ran a 5k race and it was a very special one: it was my ten year old daughter’s first 5k race and our first race together. I was really keen to share the fun and excitement of running with her. She’d been watching me run out our front door several times [...]
Running: Science vs Art
~Ann Brennan There are days when it isn’t going to happen. The schedule has me doing seven eight hundred meter repeats on the track, beginning with a twenty-five minute warm-up and ending with a twenty-five minute cool down. That’s nine miles on a day I feel like doing nothing more than sleeping. These are the [...]
Secrets of running – retail therapy, vicious dogs, movie time and fairy dust
~Melanie I’ve been running regularly over the last few weeks and feeling great about it. Which isn’t to say I’m flying, fleet-footed, fair hair flowing in the wind. You can’t take a break from ease up on running and expect to run like a gazelle right away. Although one always hopes… Anyway, it’s more like [...]
Tips for the prediabetes runner (or any beginning runner)
~Melanie Have you been diagnosed with prediabetes? Have you decided to start running? There are so many benefits to exercise and running is a great sport to take up. The American Diabetes Association estimates there are 57 million Americans with prediabetes. Prediabetes refers to blood glucose levels that are higher than normal, but not yet [...]
Add some FUN to your (boring) treadmill workout
Are you bored with running on your treadmill? Watch this short video with Kim Strother and put some fun into your treadmill workouts!
3 easy tips for running with your mate (without killing each other)
~ by Mike Romaniuk, sharing his “secret thoughts of men” 2009 is well past its half over mark and I don’t know about you, but I’m finding that life is speeding by faster each year. I’m also discovering that couple-time can be hard to squeeze into a busy schedule. Running with your spouse can be [...]
The Underwear Affair…
Last Saturday my sister, Anne, and I participated in Vancouver’s 10K run for ‘Cancer below the waist’ aka “The Underwear Affair”. Anne had raised $1,360.00 on her website for this cause. To take part in this race you must raise at least $350.00, plus pay a $25.00 sign up. She did this run for our [...]
