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I’ll be getting more serious about my winter training this year; I’ve joined the new Schankel Canada Marathon Squad, managed by Andrew Hegarty. I’ll be signing up for Northshore as a team member, and I’ll be wearing my Schankel skinsuit at all events now. There are a few others on the team, and [...]

The Chicagoland marathon has come and gone.  I went down for the marathon, but there was actually a whole weekend of events.  Team Rainbo really went all out and created full weekend of racing.   Sprints on Friday, time trials and 10K races on Saturday and then “the big show” on Sunday.  There was a [...]

After getting back from the Canada Day Marathon, I decided to start raising the intensity of my training.  Among the things I’m doing is adding more hill work to the mix.  In my city (Ottawa) on the weekends they close down certain parkways and parks to car traffic, and us sports weirdos can take over [...]

In the software industry (my day job), if you make a mistake usually its just a mistake.  But sometimes the mistake is part of learning to do something better, and the learning could not have been achieved any other way…except through the mistake.  Such mistakes get called “Strategic Learning”.  Strategic learning and career development can [...]

I’m back from the Canada Day marathon, and I’m eager to blog about that, but I’ll hold off until the official results come out and people start posting pictures.  Until then, a little update on my training going into the Canada Day marathon.
In the weeks leading into Canada I’ve started trying to increase the difficulty [...]