Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2020 i Canadian Running

Working at my dining room table through the pandemic, it’s strange to recall watching Moh Ahmed’s courageous surge to a bronze medal in the 5,000m in Doha in September 2019. Working in the office that day, none of us had any idea that his performance, along with Lyndsay Tessier’s top-10 finish in the marathon and Evan Dunfee’s bronze medal in the 50K race walk a few days later, would be some of the last ones by Canadian track athletes we would see for a long time. Paul Gains has covered many of Ahmed’s performances and forged a relationship of trust with the athlete over the years. His profile (p.36) reveals a young man poised for even greater achievement on the world stage, and for whom the Olympics postponement is just…

Marissa Papaconstantinou, a student in the sport media program at Ryerson University, was born missing her right foot. She competed in the 100m and 200m at the Rio Paralympics in 2016. 1 How did you discover running? Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being active, and I specifically loved running. I wasn’t able to get a running blade until Grade 7, and that’s when I joined a local track club. I wanted to join earlier, but the equipment wasn’t available until I was older. I started track and field when I was 12. Technology has changed a lot in parasport. There are so many options now. When I was younger, I had to hit a certain weight to be able to have a blade. The physical blades…

Silvia Ruegger always had big dreams and a habit of achieving them. As a kid, she hid a note under her floorboard that said she would one day run in the Olympics. She did, representing Canada in the first-ever women’s marathon at the 1984 Olympic Games. The next year, she ran a 2:28:36 in Houston, a Canadian marathon record that stood for 28 years. Ruegger continued to dream big, and even as cancer took its toll in the last year of her life, she registered a charity, Hopes Rise, with a vision to create running, fitness, reading and leadership programs called Champions Clubs for children and youth living in poverty. “She had these dreams, as only Silvia could, to change the cycle of generational poverty in Canada,” says Adrian Del…

When we were kids, it was a blessing in disguise that parents didn’t want to cook inside. Nights of barbecues and endless playing were pure bliss. Fast-forward to adulthood, and it’s obvious why dinners were always on the barbecue and primarily made with cold ingredients – no one wants an oven or stove top heating up an already hot living space. These recipes are examples of the kinds of meals summer barbecue season can bring into rotation. And whether you’re cooking solo or for your family, you’ll enjoy the endless flavour and ingredient possibilities of kebabs and the smoky surprise of our grilled Caesar salad. For dessert, banana boats can play into any favourite sweet tooth combinations. Time to shake things up and get grilling! Beef Balsamic Skewers Ingredients For…

You should enter the kids’ race.” No 49-year-old, who has run races all over the world, would ever expect to hear these words, or that they would prove to be good advice. But the Discovery Kenya XC, which took place this year on Jan. 26 at Eldoret Sports Club, is not a race that tops most recreational racers’ bucket lists – though it should, because it is one of the most thrilling and competitive races on the planet. For 28 years the Discovery Kenya XC has been a starting point for many who go on to become some of Kenya’s top runners, like marathon world record-holder Brigid Kosgei and half-marathon world record-holder Geoffrey Kamworor, to name only two. In January 2020, seven athletes from the BlackToe Race Team in Toronto…

AGE: 16 HOMETOWN: Edmonton SCHOOL: Strathcona High School PBs: 1,500m: 4:29.86 3,000m: 9:44.93 Have you always been a runner, or did you do other sports before settling on running? Everyone does the classic Timbits soccer and stuff, and then I did swimming for a little bit. They always had cross-country at my school, and my sister was really into it. I was like, “Oh, I’ll give this a try.” That was in Grade 3 or 4, but I didn’t start running with a club until Grade 5 or 6. When did you realize you were good at running? I don’t think it happened in that first race, because I finished 30th or 50th. I think it was Grade 8, when I went to Legions. [Sigfstead won the 1,200m at the…

Mike Wardian runs 63 laps for 422K to win the Quarantine Backyard Ultra The Quarantine Backyard Ultra started on, April 4, and over 2,400 runners from more than 50 countries joined the virtual race. Runners ran 6.706K every hour for as long as they could, and over 60 hours later, only two runners remained: American Mike Wardian and Radek Brunner of the Czech Republic. Brunner missed the start of the 63rd lap and was therefore disqualified, making Wardian the winner after 422K. After 46 hours, only Wardian and Brunner remained, and they ran for almost 20 more laps. The winner of multiple U.S. national titles at ultra distances, Wardian is well known in the running community. He has run the Western States 100 and the UTMB multiple times, and he…

Lyndsay Tessier knew the 2019 World Athletics Championships were going to be hot. But it wasn’t until she stepped off the plane in Doha, Qatar that she realized just how brutal the conditions would be. The mercury had climbed to around 40 C and Tessier’s sunglasses fogged up as soon as she emerged from the plane. Simply being outside made her sweat. “I was really panicked,” Tessier recalls. “I just thought it would be impossible to run a marathon in that heat.” But Tessier raced the marathon and excelled, finishing ninth in an event that saw 28 of the 68 starters – more than 40 per cent of the field – drop out. She attributes her performance to her fitness and the work she and her support team did to…

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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land Noé Álvarez Catapult The son of Mexican immigrants, Noé Álvarez spent his childhood in Yakima, Wash., working alongside his mother picking apples at a local plant. This debut memoir recounts the struggles he and his family endured and the opportunity he eventually received via a university scholarship to escape the family’s predicament. While attending Whitman College, Álvarez discovered the Peace and Dignity Journey, a 6,000-mile relay-style ultramarathon that starts in Canada and finishes in Guatemala. The movement, started in 1992 by indigenous communities in North and South America, is a way for these communities to reunite and reclaim dignity for their families and communities through non-competitively running great distances. Compelled by the cause, the 19-year-old student drops out of college…

Smoothies Activewear smoothiestanktops.com SIGNATURE TANK TOP $50 FREEDOM LEGGING $120 ACTIVE SKORT $70 (not shown) FREEDOM CAPRI $73 (not shown) Kiki Rozema of Grande Prairie, Alta. was tired of activewear and running brands that only fit a certain body type. She set out to create confidence-boosting tank tops that fit securely and don’t ride up for active women of all sizes. Launched in 2019, Smoothies tanks are cut high in front and long at the bottom. Designed to feel like a hug, they’re smooth on the outside and brushed on the inside. Made from 86 per cent polyester and 14 per cent spandex (not cotton, which holds moisture), the tanks are available in traditional and racerback styles in eight vibrant colours, in sizes XS to 3XL. Later, Rozema added leggings…

I’ve had more black toenails than I can count,” says Krista DuChene, the Brantford, Ont.-based marathoner who finished third in the 2018 Boston Marathon. “I’ve accepted the fact that I would not be a foot model.” If you’ve experienced a black toenail or even a few, you’re in good company. Black toenails (also sometimes referred to as runner’s toe) are caused by a subungual hematoma – a bruise or blood blister under the toenail. The good news is they are not harmful. They’re also treatable, and in many cases, preventable. The first step is understanding why it happened. Marathoner and 2015 Pan Am bronze medallist Rachel Hannah shares her experience: “When I started increasing my mileage and running marathons, I started to get some black toenails. Thinking back to what…

You feel it coming on – the first stomach cramp that signals an impending gastrointestinal disaster. No matter what you do, this is not a battle you’re going to win. Even worse – what if your body fails you at the 35K mark in a marathon and you bonk? The secret to endurance fuelling is carbohydrates that provide energy without a spike in blood sugar or GI distress, and sometimes the solution comes in a mundane package – like that container of cornstarch at the back of your pantry. Scientists have known about the benefits of cornstarch as a slow-releasing, low glycemic-index carbohydrate for a long time. In the 1980s, researchers discovered that uncooked cornstarch could help children suffering from glycogen storage disease to maintain their glucose levels overnight. Then…

When Dolly Jiang moved to Saskatoon from China in 2017, she didn’t know anyone and didn’t know what people did to make friends in the city. In an effort to get connected to her new home, Jiang helped out with a summer festival and told a fellow volunteer how isolated she felt. He told her to join the Brainsport Run Club. Jiang, now 50, vividly remembers her first run with the club on a Wednesday evening in August more than two years ago. She was apprehensive, because she hadn’t run since primary school, when she dreaded running even 800 metres in gym class. Jiang showed up at the Brainsport running store and joined a group that was alternating between running three minutes and walking one. After the first three-minute run,…

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