Tweet If you’ve looked at anything about health & fitness lately, you’ve probably heard about “fitspiration” or fitspo, and you may have seen its motto: “strong is the new skinny”. This may seem like a way of empowering women to be healthier, and to focus on fitness more than weight. It might have even started [...]

Tweet(This is NOT me, obviously. I picked it because it’s a ridiculous “fitspo” image. Who runs in these clothes, anyway?) If you haven’t already, you need to read these two articles: the first one is a Jezebel post about why being weight-obsessed is bullshit, and the second is about the so-called “strong is the new [...]

TweetFinding a good pair of running shoes is a bit like dating (stay with me here). You spend a lot of time looking, you find a pair that seems to be a perfect fit, and then one of two things happen. You find out that you don’t mesh as well as you thought and have [...]

Tweet Pretty nice, huh? I ran this last Sunday, and I thought I would share with you how it went. Because I’m going to break it down by area, I thought you’d like to follow along. But first the highlights that aren’t on the map, for those that don’t want the long play-by-play: It was [...]

Tweet Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big supporter of women in sport, especially in running. I have met some of the funniest, strongest, most awesome women through my sport, and I have been inspired by some amazing female athletes. I consider it part of my job as a running enthusiast to encourage and support [...]

Tweet I really should do a race report for the Bazan Bay 5k I did yesterday, but there isn’t much to tell. I got there, I ran as fast as I could, my brother Damian yelled at me near the finish, I ran even faster and totally smashed my previous 5k PR. It was just [...]

TweetGotta love Twitter crowd-sourcing. I asked for a blog topic and got a gooder within 30 seconds. Run buddy James suggested “when not to run”. I love this topic because there are so many potential reasons not to run, although I suspect the inspiration was that he and my other run buddy Kat are currently [...]

Tweet Ain’t it always how it works. I write a post about motivation, and then have a 3-day running slump. To be fair, I did 4 hard-ish runs right before that, so I’m sure it was mostly because I was tired, but I felt like a slacker. It was also after 2 busy days of [...]

TweetA running buddy of mine asked the following on Twitter the other day: what the heck do you do when you’ve got a goal but you’re lacking in focus and motivation?  She got several responses, most of them offering suggestions about how to make runs easier, like changing the time you go out, or having [...]

Tweet    (Photo from CeeVacs Roadrunners Club website.) The Cobble Hill 10 was not just my first 10k race, but it was my first race ever. Three years ago, with only 2 good months of running experience, and not knowing anyone, I did this race, and surprised myself with a time of 1:06:59 (see the [...]