So yesterday, I planned a 15k run that somehow, weirdly, became an exhausting 20k trek. I blame the deceptive Leslie Spit, which is endless, isolating and when running it, you just can’t stop. Oh well. It makes me feel better about the upcoming half-marathon on October 16. I am terrified that this race won’t be [...]
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Running in Chicago turned out to be the best thing ever. Like Toronto, Chicago has a spectacular waterfront. Unlike Toronto, Chicago has completely embraced this lakeside wonder. It was the busiest I have ever seen a running trail. Ever. This was the first vacation Matt and I have taken since I became a “runner” so [...]
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I am back from Chicago and I am EXHAUSTED. There was lots (surprisingly lots!) of running and biking to be had. Lots of eating and drinking too, so I’m not sure if I came out ahead. I’ll blog about the Chicago running in the next few days, but for now I am just going to [...]
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My half-marathon is getting closer and closer. Yikes! I’m glad I did the Midsummer’s Night Run, if only to kick up my long-run mileage. My training has been pretty sporadic and dependent on my mood (plenty of “I’m tired!” and “I’d rather do yoga!” creep in there), so I thought if I started writing my [...]
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Last night, I ran my first-ever 15k night race, the MidSummer’s Night Run. And it was a lot of fun. Despite the 1:48 effort (which I understand, but am not all that happy about), the course was stunning, the swag was stellar and the post-race beer tent was delicious. All summer, I had been focusing [...]
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Only a week after the first PubRuns, the group (plus one!) suited up for a 10k on Toronto Islands. (If you’re interested in PubRuns, don’t worry — they won’t be this frequent or this long going forward!). I organized it, and while Toronto Islands are one of my favourite spots in the city, I was [...]
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I’ve been doing yoga, off and on, for about five years now. When we moved to Toronto, I became a dedicated student of Emma O’Neill for about two years, attending her Sunday morning class at The Yoga Sanctuary religiously. Emma is great and I highly recommend her, but once I started running, I found that [...]
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After realizing that many of my conversations with book pals were turning into conversations about running, I decided we should do something about it. Voila, PubRuns was born. The idea? Toronto bookish types who also like running could meet up every few weeks and run, then brunch, together. We could also support each other with [...]
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I have been a “runner” (I still have trouble with this word, but every book and article I read on the subject says anyone who ever runs, at any pace, for whatever reason, is a runner, so I’ll go for it) for about eight months now. While I still have extremely conflicted and complicated feelings [...]
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