2,800 runners take to the streets each September to show their love for the heart of Vancouver. There was a piece of bone fragment that had to be removed and then they shaved down the bone spur to increase the mobility in the toe joint.”She believes that the toe issue lay at the cause of several injuries the past few years including plantar fasciitis and a couple of stress fractures. Coming from where I came from, let me tell you—I’m thankful for today.” Amazing.” For Waterfront 10k I will wake up at 4:30 a.m. Hopefully I can fall asleep at 9:30 p.m.”Sasha Gollish is an extremely versatile distance runner. Despite extensive coaching duties with the Mile2Marathon group, he has returned to serious training to win the Vancouver Marathon last month. But I need that two hours before the race.”Reid Coolsaet is a two time Canadian Olympic marathoner and father of two. Since the Under Armour Eastside 10k is part of the seven race Canada Running Series there are points to be had. I’ll likely stick with what I eat on ‘tempo saturdays’ which is a bowl of greek yogurt and some berries. I would like to get fully healthy and run a fast 10k and hopefully a fall marathon.”The Race Roster Spring Run Off will give her an indication of her progress towards these goals.To run with Natasha Wodak at the Race Roster Spring Run Off or for more information on the Training Run: Canada Running Series has organized a trip-of-a-lifetime tour group with Marville Travel, led by our Race Director Alan Brookes, plus Olympians Lanni Marchant and Natasha Wodak.
Woodfine had a technical issue.“I was leading but my shoe came untied so I had to stop and pull over and retie,” he said with a laugh.
To view the complete elite field for the 2018 Scotiabank Half Marathon & 5k, please Kangogo was 4th in the half marathon at the Vancouver Marathon festival in early May, then three weeks later, finished 2nd at the Canadian Half Marathon Championships in Calgary. “2:30.47. I will go to bed at midnight and get up at 5:30 a.m. and that works fine meI like to be at the start an hour and ten minutes before, to get settled and begin my warm up. Martinson made his final surge at 8km to claim the victory. But as all runners know, lots of factors come into play on any given day’s perfor- mance. These prevented her from a lengthy block of uninterrupted training which begs the question: what could she accomplish fully fit?Now, well recovered, Wodak has slowly increased her mileage with a berth at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London remaining the year’s top priority. I will probably wake up 5 a.m. or 4:30 a.m. have my usual bagel with honey, a few coffees drink some sports drink. She has a best 10k road time of 31:59 (Ottawa 2015) and also holds the Canadian 10,000m record of 31:41.59 which quali-fied her for the Rio Olympics. And for now, the professional racer just keeps doing her work.In late May, after Vancouver, Wodak lined up at the Canadian 10K Championships in Ottawa and took second place among female Canadian women to Rachel Cliff. “I thought that would be really painful for me at this point. It wasn’t a deep field and her time of 27:55 didn’t rewrite the books, but she smiled as she crossed the finish line and, even though she’s without a sponsor and still working through a delicate toe, she radiated joy at the childlike pleasure of being able to run.“She had some down times, but she’s back now and it’s great to see her run free of pain, it’s exhilarating,” says Patti Wodak, Natasha’s mom. “Here I was training away, and not happy. Again, Wodak took the win for the Canadian women, running so quickly that she was only six seconds off the course record. “My plan for the race was to go out conservatively and I was waiting for the pain to set in, but it didn’t come,” says Wodak, relaying her experience with a measure of thrilled disbelief.Wodak’s PBs are all over the Canadian records. He also fondly remembers his late father’s idea of giving out maple syrup to the top ten finishers. In the men’s race, Reid Coolsaet will be back to defend his title against a very intriguing field. This includes:For more info on the events themselves, plus online entry, check out And for a great throwback to see Alan at Run Barbados 20 years ago, September 1 – 30, 2020 – Virtual Race – 10K | 5K | Cub RunOctober 1 -31, 2020 – Virtual Race – 42K | 21K | 10K | 5K | Marathon RelayJune 29- September 18 2020 – Virtual Race – 21K | 10K | 5K25 mai – 21 Septembre 2020 – Course Virtuelle – 21K | 10K | 5K | course des enfants“I want to win for sure,” the 31 year-old Vancouver resident says of her goals. A post shared by Natasha Wodak (@tasha_wodak) on Feb 14, 2019 at 7:36am PST ADVERTISEMENT This week’s guests are Osi Nriagu , Alan Baggoo , Maddie Davidson , Jeremy Rae and Will Roumanis . Her gift is no longer a sentence. To add to the mix, she switched coaches and is now being guided by one of her heroes, 1984 Olympic 3,000m bronze medalist, Lynn Kanuka. The athletic performances of the superstars like Komen, the US’s Ed Eyestone, and 1995 world 10000m champion Sally Barsosio, are well etched on his mind.In 1994 Barsosio, he remembers, had to be coaxed out of the Grenadier Restaurant where she was sheltering from the bitter cold. “It has been going well. Next on her schedule is the Vancouver Sun Run, a race she has won on two previous occasions. © 2017 iRun.ca / Sportstats Inc. ON THE DAY BEFORE NATASHA WODAK MADE HER RETURN TO STREET RACING, THE 35-YEAR-OLD OLYMPIAN WAS IN HIGH HEELS AND A RED DRESS ON QUEEN STREET WEST IN TORONTO, BRINGING TRAFFIC TO A HALT.A smorgasbord of male runners laid strewn at her feet. I am excited for the spring”“Everybody told me it was super hilly but with the uphills come the nice down hills so it evens out. It’s good. Recovery after the race will be really important, so I’ll be sure to go to bed early the night of race day.