There is a new run club on the Kitchener-Waterloo race scene and they will be making their début at our ReFridgeEighter 8km/3km on February 21st. We caught up with the coach of the team, Adam Hortian for a bit of the background story on the club...
Happy New Year readers! With 2016 finally upon us, it’s time to start laying down base training for a successful year of racing. During this early phase of your year, it’s a good time to think about and train things that you really don’t have...
The off-season is officially upon us! YA. Time to dial back the volume and intensity, take care of low-grade injuries, get back to other aspects of training you’ve missed, and just generally take it easy and dream up performances to come in 2016...
With the off season approaching, it’s time to start thinking about making small changes that can help you to improve upon your 2015 running performances. One area that’s always good to strive to learn more about: diet. On this topic, one of my...
The fall marathon season is almost upon us! With only a few weeks to go for many of you, it’s time to taper, to let the body recover and to get ready for battle. At this point it’s difficult to make any significant fitness gains, so dial back on...
At the 2015 ENDURrun, we had a number of different spirited challenges within our Health and Performance team. One was a very entertaining and fun challenge between a loving/ ruthlessly competitive couple- Howie and Manny. Howie ended up taking...
We just wrapped up our 2015 Endurrun and among our runners was “Dangerous D” or Derek Hergott, a local runner who was celebrating his 10 year runniversary. We thought it would be great to catch up with him and check out what 10 years...
We are super excited to announce the newest sponsor to the RunWaterloo family, Michael Hewitson, Royal LePage Wolle Realty! Everything we do in the running community is made possible by all of our stakeholders, including runners, volunteers...
In the past, I have written about the importance of interval training to improve running performance. Yes, it is very important to hammer above your lactate threshold a couple of times per week depending on where you are in your training to get...
It recently came to our attention that local runner, Aidan Kelly, had just completed his 34th consecutive Waterloo 10 KM Classic. This Run Waterloo race is the largest and most competitive 10 KM around and Aidan only has missed 4 races in the...
Every runner has heard of altitude training. The principal is simple: go somewhere high up where the air is thinner and force our bodies to adapt to the decreased oxygen concentration. These hypoxic conditions stimulate a release of the hormone...
On Thursday afternoon the torch will arrive in Waterloo from Stratford, and there will be celebrations at Waterloo Town Square and then Kitchener City Hall, where it will rest for the night before continuing on to Cambridge and Brantford on...
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