2024 outdoor season: part one recap
‘Just keep swimming, just keeping swimming’ I can’t believe we’re almost at the end of another month. Didn’t May just arrive? Time seems to be flying by this season – it could be the busyness of life, the pressure of the quickly approaching Olympic trials or some combination of the two. The first track races […]
Canadian 10,000m Championships race recap
Those 25 laps (mostly) just flew by! Wow – lots of highlights and takeaways from Friday’s race. Overall, my performance was okay, but I fell short of my outcome goal. But that’s part of the sport! We go out there and win or learn. I did a lot of learning and was able to check […]
Payton Jordan Race Recap
Rust is busted! It’s official, the outdoor track season is here! I opened my season in the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational’s 5,000m at Stanford University on April 19. This meet is often sought after by collegiate and post-collegiate athletes alike because of the strong fields and near-perfect California weather conditions. I arrived in Palo Alto […]
Caught up in comparisons?
5 tips to break the cycle Have you recently found yourself unmotivated, unsatisfied and perhaps unsure of next steps? Yeah, me too … For about three weeks following our trip to Australia, I was in a funk. I couldn’t concentrate on work and every run felt like a chore – it was a struggle to […]
How to identify burn out and depression
Sport and farm demands can lead to mental health challenges Last month I attended a workshop on producer, processor and family wellness hosted by the Centre for Organizational Governance in Agriculture. While the presentation focused on the agricultural industry, I found that much of the messaging in the presentation could also apply to athletes. In […]
5 powerful takeaways from 2022
Each year offers opportunities to learn and grow It’s crazy to think that we’ll soon be flipping our calendars to a new year in a couple short weeks. 2022 certainly had its moments of relief and uncertainty. Some aspects of our lives returned to some semblance of normalcy (thank goodness!), but many local and global […]