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Happy 2nd Birthday Runivores!

Has it been 2 years already?!  Wow time sure flies, but Runivores is another year older! It’s hard to imagine that much time has passed since we started running together, then racing together.  And there’s TONS more to celebrate over this past year.  Most importantly, we achieved the one goal we set out to do at the time of Runivores’ first birthday last year – (in exact words from our post) RUN…

Island Girl Half Marathon 2014 Recap

Waking up at the crack of dawn to run 21.1km in the rain? Well worth it.

It has been a little more than a year since we ran our first half marathon last May. We had been looking forward to running this race since signing up in July, and not being able to sleep the night before confirmed our excitement. Despite hearing from the weather experts that it would be raining with a chance of…

Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Training Week 9 and 10

Week 9

STEPHIE’S TRAINING

Day 1 – Tuesday July 22, 2014: Tempo Run 5K (26:38) – A routine run along a familiar route with an average 5:20 pace.  This was an enjoyable pace – although I was pushing my body to go faster than race pace, I wasn’t gasping for air at the end nor did I have the urge to stop running.

Day 2 – Wednesday July 23, 2014: Read about my 5K race here! – http://runivores.wordpres…

Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Training Week 7 and 8

Week 7

STEPHIE’S TRAINING

Day 1 – Tuesday July 8, 2014: Tempo Run 5K (25:00) – I think 5K might be one of my favourite distances to run because (a) you can get an intense workout in under 30 mins (b) it’s relatively short if you’re training for a longer distance race (c) you can incorporate intervals of sprinting to get some speed workout in.  Goal is to eventually complete this in under 24…