Tales of Trails, Mountains and Rocky Roads

Hill of a Race is creeping ever closer, and my hill running this past couple of weeks has started to give me the confidence I need, to be able to run up and down a ski hill for 6  consecutive hours! Since my last post, I did complete a weekend of double run days, and I was pretty chuffed how things went. A friend had asked if I fancied joining her on a run that very weekend, and we ended up heading to Edmonton to complete 10 miles of running up and down the Walterdale Hill. For those of you not familiar with this hill, it is long, steep, and tough. Yes, it's on road, but at a good half mile or more, it definitely isn't easy. Add to that ice, slush and snow on the day, it made things a little tougher than running on just plain concrete. I expected to do at least 10 times up and down, and sure enough, I had completed the session and had a good 1700 ft or so of climbing in my legs - they were undoubtedly fatigued and I could certainly tell I'd been running hills, yet I still h...

Last week, Sinister Sports held an online  live Q&A session for those registered  for The Divide 200 in September. I haven’t really given much thought nor planning t o this particular race just yet, especially w ith it still being several months away, but i t did get me thinking that maybe I should  start to familiarise myself with things  a little more, and start to do some  of that preliminary prep. I spent a good hour on Sunday printing out then reading the race information available thus far, and that nervous excitement about a big race started to kick in. After the initial read through, I immediately started to think about my race support crew and possible pacers. My support crew rarely changes when it comes to races, and of course Andy will be there to look after me, making sure I’m eating, drinking, moving and sleeping, but not necessarily in that order! Pacers was another matter, and whilst I have reached out to a couple of friends already, it’s a bi...