My love for fitness has taken me to a lot of cool places. I've seen the rugged beaches of Monterey, The glitz of the Las Vegas strip, the crispy pine covered mountains of Fernie. But would you believe one of the coolest places that my fitness has ever taken me was to a very ordinary park in Calgary?? This past weekend I completed my certification as a personal trainer for the Bikini Boot Camp program. It was intense, it was fun, it was hard core, it was girly, it was everything I love about m

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Recently, many of us have posted about injuries and illnesses. Here is mine.

As
a runner, I am often asked annoying questions, my least favorite being,
"Have you ever had problems with your knees or your back?" I pride
myself on the fact that I have been relatively injury-free. This year,
though, I feel as though I have been plagued by injuries, no… Continue

I am looking for someone who has registered for the Mini Marathon and is unaboe to make it. the race is sold out. I missed the registration. If I can find a registration transfer, this will be my first half marathon, this years goal. Last year was my first sprint triatahlon. A co-worker is going and I would like to join him.

I will reimburst the registration fees and pay the transfer fees. I have a paypal account, or I am open to any other payment options.

My running really sucks, but at least I suck way faster than I used to. Today's pace was 7:26 per km over 12 km. I can't say that the warmer temperatures (-10 for today's run) are making me enjoy running outside in the winter any better.

I remember my first race ever when I ran a 10 km in about 1:20. Today, I can run a 10 km in 1:05. That's a fifteen minute difference without me having lost any of my excess cargo. Actually, I have lost about 10 pounds since then, however I need to lose another… Continue

I like 2 and 12 best,

One of our goals for 2010 was to develop our own running poster. The focus was to create something that delivered the message Did You Run Today? and would hopefully provide a source of motivation to help runners get out there and run. To this effort we enlisted our friends over at Crowdspring hoping to get one or two entries that we really identified with. Well they have more than delivered in fact we have quite a few to choose from and while we have our favorites we wanted to thro… Continue