Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2021 i Canadian Running

One of the most challenging aspects of publishing a bimonthly magazine is that, despite advances in printing tech, we still operate with ridiculously long lead times. It means that, by the time we go to print, the track-and-field events in Tokyo will barely have started, but by the time you receive your copy, the Olympics will be over and the Paralympics about to begin. (And it explains why there are no Olympic results in these pages, but you can get all those stories on our website, runningmagazine.ca.) The risk is that, if something major changes in a story we’re covering in the meantime, we might have egg on our faces when the magazine comes out. But it also liberates us, giving us a chance to delve into the deeper, more…

Hassan, Gidey break women’s 10,000m world record twice in three days On June 6, the world looked on in wonder as Dutch superstar and European record holder Sifan Hassan lapped multiple athletes to shave more than 10 seconds off the 10,000m world record in Hengelo, Netherlands. Her time was 29:06.82. Two days later, on the same track, Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey broke the record again, by close to six seconds. Gidey’s new record stands at 29:01.03, pending ratification. (The previous record stood at 29:17.45 and was set during the 2016 Olympic final by gold medallist Almaz Ayana of Egypt.) Walmsley wins third straight victory at Western States 100 On June 26, U.S. ultrarunner Jim Walmsley of Flagstaff, Ariz., won his third straight victory at Western States, crossing the finish line of…

You’ve just signed up for a marathon and can’t wait to start training. You’ve put a lot of thought into how to periodize your training so that you peak on the day of competition. But has the same level of detail and thought gone into your fuelling plan? Nutrition can have a huge impact on your performance, both during training and especially on race day. Your body stores carbohydrates in the form of glycogen in your muscles and liver, but in a limited supply. During endurance events of over 90 minutes we start to run out of these important energy reserves if we don’t take in carbohydrates while racing. (This, or insufficient training, is usually the reason first-time marathoners “hit the wall.”) Therefore, you should map out a plan well…

When you think of southeastern Alberta, you might typically picture prairie grasslands and an endless expanse of flat. That’s not the case, though, in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, located a 45-minute drive southeast of Medicine Hat. The park is a mini oasis formed when retreating glaciers bypassed this area during the last Ice Age, and, at 1,466 m, is the highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the Torngat mountains of Labrador. At 600 metres higher than the surrounding Prairies, the Cypress Hills offer three distinct natural regions that offer great variety of running terrain. Lodgepole pines tower above the Rocky Mountain region, making it feel like you are running in a forest similar to Banff National Park, rather than the prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The main town in…

On Sept. 23, 2017, Antonio (Tony) Robinson, an ultrarunner and off-duty firefighter from Monroe, Wash., was driving along Washington State Route 542 toward the majestic Mount Baker. He was with his wife, Cheryl, and their teenage sons, Gabe and Jon. Following them in a second car were Cheryl’s sister, Sarah, and her husband, Mike, their two young daughters, and Cheryl and Sarah’s father, Eric. Among the dense forest and glacier-fed rivers, Tony and his family shared pleasant memories of Cheryl’s mother, Susan, whose ashes they planned to scatter along her favourite hiking trail. Tony was a runner. Starting in junior high, he ran cross country and the decathlon in college, moving up to the marathon in the early 1990s, ultimately getting his best time down to 3:08. He started running…

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Diet culture is nothing new. I was born the same year as Kate Moss, and spent my formative years idolizing waifs and trying every diet. I have a vivid memory of tagging along with my mother to a calorie counters’ meeting, where the women weighed in, then sat in a circle on folding chairs and “passed the piggy.” If you had gained weight since the last meeting, you had to deposit a toll in the neon pink piggy bank. Over the years, I’ve avoided fat, then shifted to fear sugar, bread and carbs in general. I started running in my 30s – ostensibly to improve my mental health, but it was secretly driven by the goal of losing weight. I now shudder to think how many times I ran under-fuelled.…

Saucony Endorphin Speed 2.0 Best Update Category: neutral cushioning Men’s: 225 g (7.9 oz.) Women’s: 200 g (7.1 oz.) Stack height: 35.5 mm Drop: 8 mm $200 Like the original Endorphin Speed, the Speed 2 is a super light, high-performance training shoe that’s a great choice for tempo runs, track workouts and road races – and anyone who tries this model out will be hard pressed to find a reason not to invest in a pair. The new series of Endorphin racers comes in multiple colourways, including a distinctive, wavy black-and-white aesthetic reminiscent of the checkered flag in motor racing – a subliminal salute to speed. The 2 retains the things that made the first version so successful: lightness, plush pwrrun PB cushioning, a rockered sole combined with a full-length…

Formed in fall 2019 by Alexandra Quenneville, Lecia Mancini and Véronique Giroux, the Prefontaine Run Squad came to be because of their desire to grow a running community in the neighbourhood they all lived in. The leaders picked Prefontaine as their club name not only as a tribute to the legendary American runner Steve Prefontaine, but because it also happens to be the name of a transit stop in the area. In recent years, Hochelaga has gone from being a little rough around the edges to a very sought-after region of Montreal. “The neighbourhood has improved in the way of services and conveniences and has undergone some gentrification,” Mancini says. “We chose this as our base because there was an obvious lack of community-based fitness groups in the area.” But…

“Oh sure, I go on runs, but I’m not, like, a runner.” This is something my younger sister said to me recently. She runs five or six times a week. Running is one of the simplest and most accessible sports on the planet, yet it struggles to inspire fans and participants who identify as runners. For people all over the world, running is their primary form of exercise. Strava users alone logged 288 million kilometres in 2020, and the number of marathons recorded tripled in 2020 over 2019. According to Forbes, track and field has the highest participation numbers of any North American high-school sport. So the fan base is definitely there, yet viewership of our sport continues to spiral downward. With the exception of the 100m final (which featured…

Stoko K1 TIGHT AND K1 BREATHE TIGHT Men’s and women’s sizes available $500 (covered by insurance plans) Contrary to popular (i.e., non-runner) belief, running is not bad for your knees. But for runners with previous injuries from sports that actually do wreck your knees (like skiing, snowboarding or hockey), good news: Stoko, a Vancouver-based company, has created a high-tech compression tight that’s actually a knee brace. Traditional knee braces are cumbersome, and always seem to be either uncomfortably tight or slipping down the leg – and they’re difficult to wash. The K1 Tight’s support comes from 36 metres of cable embedded in the stretchy, breathable knit fabric that’s adjusted for each leg separately via control knobs on the outside of the waistband. The tights provide just as much fully adjustable,…

If traditional gym exercises are not your cup of tea, this workout is for you. One of the most running-specific strength training exercises you can do doesn’t actually involve weights. All you need is your body weight, a flight of stairs and gravity. Running stairs, like running hills, offers great transferability to running on the flats. Combining stair sprints, running drills and hops will not only improve your running skills, but will also develop your reactive strength and lower-body power-producing ability – both great for better running economy and the ability to run farther, faster. THE WORKOUT Add this workout to the middle of a run or do it as a separate outing. Warm up with a light, 10-minute jog. Perform each of the exercises below with an explosive intent,…

There’s an oft-cited statistic that claims that only 0.1 per cent of people have run a marathon. Or maybe it’s 0.01 per cent. Nobody really knows, but it’s very rare. We do know that an extremely small minority of people have run 42.2K in a race. For the recreational road runner, there are few things as rare – or challenging – as the marathon. There’s also no other athletic achievement that draws as much defensive derision: “I don’t even like driving that far! Was someone chasing you?” etc. It’s good-natured, as long as you understand that it comes from a place of “I couldn’t possibly fathom the depth of your accomplishment, so I have no choice but to minimize it.” But there’s one question that’s rarely examined: what makes a…

For visual artist and college instructor Jacquie Jacobs, 65, running is a highly visual experience. Jacobs loves the independence and freedom of running, which, for her, lead directly to creativity: “You step out the door, and for however much time, you’re breathing, observing, and doing yourself some positive good. And there’s so much to see when you’re running – that’s a lot of what art is, if you’re working with realism and light effects. You’re constantly seeing, and excited by, all sorts of fabulous things.” For Jacobs, who trained at the Ontario College of Art and Design and in Florence, Italy, her love of both art and running morphed into a series of small paintings (6 x 12 inches, oil on cradle board) that she calls “Runbys” (pronounced run-by). “I…