Personally, I wouldn't count Powderface since the course is long (I got about 44k and so did everyone I talked to) and of course not like any road marathon! Now that Calgary is moving to May, I'm hoping to run Powderface next year. You're right that it's not a typical marathon. Put it on the list, ...

MichaelMc - A true "Alberta slam" would also have included Lethbridge (a week after Red Deer) and Ft. McMurray in the second week in September. But hey, winning three marathons in this province in one year is certainly nothing to sneeze at! :shock: Don't forget Lakeland (Vermilion in May), Footstoc...

I'll be doing the full & will be in Edmonton most of Saturday and all of Sunday. Hopefully I won't be too cranky by the time I get to the 37K water station.

Well, it's been five weeks since my last marathon and that was making me cranky. Loop The Lake is another one of those small races that I like so much. The lake in question is Windermere, just across the BC border southwest of Banff. To "loop the lake" completely was a task for the half-dozen runner...

Ooh, I love running laps senselessly, having done in the last year: (1) 211 laps around the 200m running track at a nearby hockey rink (2) 20 laps (through a foot of snow) around the 2.1K trail encircling a nearby lake (3) 106 laps around the high-school track Unfortunately, August 31 is exactly one...

Maybe for 2009... first we have to get through all the races we scheduled for ourselves in 2008.

Though, I must admit it's been mostly tapering and recovering between marathons since May .... In effect, I built my base/foundation during the winter months and living off the laurels of my marathons, over the past 3-4 months ... :? I agree with this completely. It remains an open question to me a...

:shock: Could you lay out what 1 week looks like for a 160k week. I just can't visualize it :shock: I don't have my running log handy right now, so I'll try to reconstruct this from memory: July 8: 17K of easy running to loosen up the legs after the Calgary marathon on the 6th. July 9: Some interva...

As one of the high-mileage runners here, I'll chip in: Higher training volumes, in my experience, are usually a consequence of higher fitness, and not the cause. Another way to look at this is that this year's training is next year's base, so you're looking at much more than an isolated 18-week prog...

Is anyone else still going? It's been a month since my last marathon and I'm itching to get racing again.

July: 535K

YTD: 2478K

I agree with Michael on the hill tactics. The funny thing is that the two biggest ones (Groat and MacKinnon) behave very differently depending on whether you run the half or the full. In the half, you're running a lot closer to threshold and the length of Groat can really get you into trouble. On th...

I have two: (1) Ran my first marathon in 1997 on absolutely zero training (quite literally my first run of the year), as I stumbled across the race expo and thought "how hard could it be?" and...how much did it hurt?? Between the cotton T-shirt, the $20 running shoes, the 1:1s I was doing from 25K ...

cgraham : glad to hear the MP run turned out well. I find that it takes a few attempts to get this workout right and that it is as much mental as physical. Some additional thoughts/opinions about MP: (1) The pace is always hard to decide when you're not through with most of your training. I'll go w...

Men's 5K ian 17:38 Camrose Running Club time trial, July 08 tritorun 17:42 Brooklin harvest festival Oct 05 Robbie-T 18:24 Giddy Up and Gallop May 08 Roadrunner 18:37 Childfind 5k June 05 eljeffe 18:59 (guntime) Spring Classic, Vancouver, March 08 Ed Fizz 19:11 Niagara arathon 5k, Niagara Falls, Oc...

NYC is my "destination" marathon for the year. (Last year Boston, next year Chicago?) My flights are on Thursday and Monday, so I have two non-racing days to see some sights; suggestions welcome.

August 9 - Loop the Lake Marathon

August 17 - Edmonton Marathon

September 7 - Queen City Marathon

November 2 - NYC Marathon

I have two: (1) Ran my first marathon in 1997 on absolutely zero training (quite literally my first run of the year), as I stumbled across the race expo and thought "how hard could it be?" (2) "Joggled" an 8K charity run in 2006, despite never having tried it before. I was in absolute last place at ...

I'm in for the full.

I'm signed up for the full, leaving central Alberta on Friday morning and returning on Sunday. If any Alberta runners (Edmonton through to Calgary) want a ride, let me know.