Category: Personal Development
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5 running lessons I learned the hard way
The trail running (and road running) season is soon to be over. Here are five key lessons I’ve been reminded of this year.
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Royal Victoria Marathon 2026 – Race Recap
“If something scares you, do it.” – Derek Sivers. These are words that I think I’ve adopted all year long with my racing. Shorter, faster races are not necessarily “scarier” than longer races. But they are outside of my comfort zone, and not in service toward my perceived skillsets as an athlete in this sport.…
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Newsletter – Constructing your 2027 racing calendar
You may have already started thinking about 2027, without fully finishing the season still in existence. With registration deadlines and prices, this is often a necessity, ensuring you can claim a spot at your desired events. Here is what to consider when constructing your racing calendar in 2027.
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Newsletter – Three things I do before and AFTER every run
The hallmark of a good runner lies within the ability to not only have good routines around the run itself, but within everything that surrounds it. Growing as an endurance athlete does not only happen within the repeated movement patterns of the activity itself, but within the adaptations that happen when the body stops moving.…
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Weekly Newsletter: Giving yourself an off-season
Last Sunday, I concluded my season with a historic half marathon (literally called the Historic Half Marathon). I think I’ve often looked at this year’s races as somewhere within the ‘B’ tier, with no standout results, no podium finishes and no ‘A+’ days. I’m inevitably hungry for what’s to come in 2026 and to put…
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Historic Half Marathon – Race Recap
I don’t know what it is with my body. Why it always chooses the week of a race to get sick. Racing while sick isn’t easy, but I also need to get better at being uncomfortable. Here is what I learned from Vancouver’s Historic Half Marathon.
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Dancing in the storm
It’s been over a year now in B.C., and almost two since the reason I’m really here. And it forever feels difficult feeling like most of that has been thrown behind either in pursuit and prioritization of the efforts I put into my work in Ontario at the time, or after it inevitably ended so…
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Weekly Newsletter: My favourite workouts of 2025
As the year starts to come to a close, I reflect upon my favourite workouts of 2025.
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Weekly Newsletter – The biggest lesson I learned each year on the trails
As another year of training racing starts to approach its end, I reflect on the biggest lessons I’ve learned in each of my years in the sport of trail running so far!
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Weekly Newsletter – The best reflective exercise I do before every race
This exercise works in written form for those that enjoy writing or journaling like me, but it can also simply be done as a visualization exercise.
