Below you will find a variety of running posts:
- Fun anecdotes and quizzes
- Practical running and training advice
- Gear reviews
- Marathon guides and race reports
Whatever your distance, whatever your race, whatever your pace, keep it up!
For Fun and distraction
- Quiz – Are you a jogger, a runner or insane?
- Disaster stories: The unfortunate incident of the improvides gel pouch
- Disaster stories: Wardrobe Malfunction
- Disaster stories: The 1958 Beer mile?
- Disaster stories: All I want to do is run Chicago!
Practical running advice
- Training for your first marathon – practical tips to get you to the start line
- What to pack for your marathon
- What to pack for a Ragnar/Peak To Brew relay race
- So that marathon sucked – now what? Getting over a bad race
- Running Cross country for a road runner (X-Country Canadian nationals)
- What does it take to finally run a strong marathon
Running Gear Reviews
- Using your Garmin for music (without a phone) Garmin Forerunner 645 Music
- How to avoid slipping on icy winter runs (traction options)
- Microspikes for winter running
- Trekz Air Aftershokz Headphones – bone conduction so you hear ambient noise for safer running
Marathons preparation and racing (alphabetical order)
- Berlin, Germany – fall race
- Big Sur, CA, USA – spring race
- Boston, MA, USA – spring race
- Everything you need to know for Boston Marathon weekend
- Treadmill settings for Boston training
- Susan’s race report (2015)
- Susan’s race report (2019)
- Susan’s race report (2021) the fall return post COVID adventure
- Susan’s race report (2022)
- Boston vs New York which is more awesome (2017)
- Boston vs New York which is tougher (2017)
- Boston vs Chicago Marathon (2018/2019)
- California International Marathon, Sacramento, CA, USA – fall race
- Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Chicago, IL USA – fall race
- Susan’s race report (2018)
- Chicago vs New York Marathon (2017/2018)
- Boston vs Chicago Marathon (2018/2019)
- Grandma’s Marathon, Duluth, MN, USA (2016) spring race
- Hamilton Marathon, Hamilton, ON, Canada – fall race
- Everything you need to know about the Hamilton marathon **They changed the route significantly since I wrote this
- Susan’s race report (2019)
- New York City Marathon, New York, NY, USA – fall race
- Susan’s race report (2017)
- Chicago vs New York Marathon (2017/2018)
- Boston vs New York which is more awesome (2017)
- Boston vs New York which is tougher (2017)
- Philadelphia Marathon, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2016) fall race
- Susan’s race report (2016)
- BMO Vancouver Marathon, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2018) spring race
Ottawa area races
- 5 reasons to run Canada Army Run Half Marathon (2018)
- Army Run (2019)
- Mad Trapper Snowshoe night race yes you race in snowshoes (2018) January, Gatineau, Quebec
- Beat Beethoven race (2019) May 1 km, 4 km , 8 km Kingston, Ontario
- Diefenbooker race (2019) May 5km and 10 km run, 5 km, 18 km, and 33 km cycle, Carp, Ontario
- Emilie’s Run 5 km women’s race (2019) April, Ottawa, Ontario
- Mud Hero Ottawa Mud Run/Obstacle Course race (2018) June, Ottawa, Ontario
- Perth Kilt Run 8km fun run in a kilt? why not? (2018) June, Perth, Ontario – as of 2019 the race is in August
- Surf N Turf relay race run, canoe, bike, swim (2018) June, Trenton, Ontario
What if I don’t want to run a marathon!?
- Bay to Breakers, 12 km, San Francisco, CA, USA (2019) spring race
- Shamrock Shuffle, 8 km Chicago IL, USA (2022) spring race
- Imperial palace half marathon, Tokyo, Japan (2017) fall race
- Joe McGuire Race 5 km, Woodstock, NB, Canada (2019) summer race
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