Want to start running or reach a 10k or half-marathon goal? Be sure to pick up the September 2013 issue of Canadian Living magazine! It’s got a running guide (written by yours truly) including tips from the Running Room’s John Stanton, stretching strategies from The Running Clinic’s Blaise Dubois, advice from personal trainer (and Boston Marathoner) Hayley McGowan, and more!
(and while you’ve got running on your mind, don’t forget to vote for me once a day to help me activate my inner champion and attempt to reach a major running goal!)
August 13, 2013
Tips from my weekly running clinic. Last week, Bryan Smith of the Running Room came to speak to us about goal-setting. Here’s some of what I jotted down:
- Don’t wait until after your spring goal race to start thinking about what’s next. Start thinking now so you can start crafting the plan that will set you up to reach your next goal. You’ve already reached a certain level of fitness so don’t just let it drop right off.
- If it’s your first time doing a half-marathon, you may not want to have a certain time goal in mind given it is your first time running that distance.
- If you’re considering training for a marathon, consider how much time you have to devote to training, and know that you will slow down, and that there will be a bigger discrepancy between your long runs and short runs (and you will feel like you are working much harder at it).
I have already decided I want to train for a fall half-marathon. And I’ll see how these May races go in terms of helping me make a decision if a full marathon (gulp) is in my near future. Even just thinking about the possibility of doing a marathon scares the begeezus out of me–although I found it interesting to learn that the Running Room marathon clinic brings you up to a distance of 32k. I’ve run 32k before–really, really slowly and with much, much, much effort, but I’ve run it…
April 25, 2011
