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I run on a treadmill most of the time as I find the training environment more consistent that running outside in a changing environment. However, I know many runners consider the treadmill to be boring and has earned the name of ‘dreadmill’. For some people they need to feel the wind rushing past them, they [...]
Continue Reading →Today I learned that natural products that claim health benefits have to be licensed by Health Canada before they can be purchased over the counter. Who would have thought you’d need a license for a natural product? I’m sure the broccoli florets I bought yesterday didn’t have a license, I must check. Why do we [...]
Continue Reading →In my previous Grinds (13 to date) I’ve never warmed up. I stretch but I’m scared of losing energy and want to make sure I keep every ounce of energy for the climb. It seems I may have been doing it all wrong. I statically stretch before a Grind — my quadriceps, hamstrings, calf muscles [...]
Continue Reading →Terence Byrne, I salute you. And as for Amy Tso and Sebastian Albrecht… impressive. As I continue with my addiction to The Grouse Grind there is one name that keeps popping up on the leadership board, Mr Terence Byrne. At the time of writing, Mr Byrne has completed 114 Grinds this season with a personal best [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a guide to The Grind for first-time hiker. The Grind is a gruelling hike that will take anything up to 3 hours to complete depending on your level of fitness and preparedness. How Long Will it Take? If your aerobic fitness is good you should be able to do it in less than 60 [...]
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The Grouse Grind, or “The Grind” as we Vancouverites call it, is a gruelling, tortuous, yet ultimately exhilirating, hike in North Vancouver. It will eat you up, twist your leg muscles into knots and laugh at you when you’re on your knees begging for mercy … but it’s addictive. Very, very addictive. The Grind is [...]
Continue Reading →I bought a Nike + iPod for Vancouver’s 10km Sun Run in April 2011. I’d been running on the treadmill for about four months but I didn’t know how to run on the road. As I explained to my wife, I set the treadmill to a particular speed and I just keep up — I [...]
Continue Reading →I love my Garmin Forerunner 310XT. With firmware v3.20 you were so nice, so helpful, so accurate and I loved all of those lovely charts you gave me, why did you have to be upgraded to v3.70? Now I hate you. Auto Pause bleeps like some demented truck that can’t decide if it’s backing up, or [...]
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