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I decided to take my camera on my run today to capture the beauty of the trails. Running 20 km with a healthy body and my 2 youngest children along such a pretty route is truly a blessing.

It’s about time that I blog about the amazing Runners Feed.This site has it all: training, reviews, nutrition, interviews, and much more. Specifically as RF describes it, ” Runners Feed will be focusing efforts on bringing a quality road race to the beautiful city of London, Ontario – Canada, bringing together all levels of runners from around the globe. We …

Recently I was invited to have coffee with Brantford‘s marathoner, Rick Mannen (read below about his major success in the 1980’s). What an honour. It was great to exchange running stories and learn about the NEW 2012 Brantford Tournament of Races, Road and Trail Series. Brantford has had numerous road races but never a series so this is great! The …

Let me tell you, I love the location of our home in Brantford. It’s close to the 403, the trails, the school, and the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre.With my training, and now that we are into hockey season, I will be at the WGSC Monday-Friday. I train 3 mornings/wk and take Seth skating Tues’/Thurs’. Check out the pictures of the …

Well, today was a GREAT day at the STWM!Here are a few articles with the many exciting events of the day (one, two, three). In short, here is what happened: Reid and Eric met the “A” standard for London 2012, Kenneth Mungara won his 4th consecutive STWM, and 100 y.o. Singh and 80 y.o. Whitlock set World Records. Oh, and …

Only 4 more days until the STWM 1/2. All is well but I really do not know what to expect.Here is the elite start list for the full and half. It’ll be a great race for all!

Well, this morning was rather eventful…Leah was my alarm clock at 6:00 am so I fed her and got dressed. Then, Micah got up right before I was about to sneak out of the house quietly for my run. I asked him to let Moses (the dog) out for a pee while I put on the tv show, Wild Kratts, …

Pictures: 1. Awards and meal tent. Sooo many people!2. Snake!3. Snuggled up.4. Kids’ tent.5. Race morning w/ Leah before heading out. Well, I survived the week on my own (Jonathan was away for work) AND managed to do OK at the Run for the Toad 25 km trail race (near Paris). First, a big thank you goes to Jonathan’s parents …

Training this week again went well. I am so pleased that I am physically feeling great. I believe my right foot is actually healing, and I am definitely feeling like I will be ready to run regular doubles soon! I have a ways to go but am thrilled my body is handling the mileage well.I ran a total of 90 …

As you likely already know, I lost my dad to cancer (colon) in 1995 and my mom to cancer (leukemia) in 1997. So, participating in events to raise funds and/or awareness about cancer is very meaningful to me. Last Sunday our church organized a Walk of Hope for Ovarian Cancer. Ovarian cancer is difficult to detect early so unfortunately once …