Treking for four

  My children are a major influence in my running, I run both to model for them a healthy lifestyle that includes being physically active and taking time to care for yourself.  I also run because being a parent is hard and running is an opportunity to escape some of that stress and take time for myself to renew.  I thought I would share a little about each of my children in the next couple of posts (with their permission).  My oldest is Luke, he is 11 and in grade 6, he is my serious child, from a young age he was asking big questions and thinking deeply about the world around him.  At home Luke is quiet and thoughtful, at school he is a bit of a class clown.  Luke's passion is soccer and he has worked hard to play for one of our local rep soccer teams, Norval Croatia.   Luke is a wonderful big brother and excitedly welcomed each of his siblings, when we were expecting our youngest Evelyn Anne, he told his Nana that he loved her already even thoug...

My 110 Km FKT attempt is not my first ultramarathon, but it is my farthest, I have found in the past since a running coach is way out of my budget that there are some good free plans on the web. My personal go to site is irunfar.com, I find the training plans feel do able and the site also has lots of great articles related to ultra and trail running. For this run I am using a version of irunfar.com's 100km training plan, but I have adjusted it to reflect all of the other commitments I have and in some cases reduced the mileage required. I find when I struggle to follow a training plan O can get really negative and I am hoping that by building the plan around my life instead bid trying to fit my life into the plan I will have more success. One of the challenges I know I will have because of the timing of the run is the winter running and the likelihood I will be spending time running on the treadmill. I know that both running in the cold and snow and running on the treadmill will b...