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Before the Ottawa Marathon, when Lanni Marchant was racing just weeks after the Vancouver Marathon at 38-years-old, Lanni and I hosted the Ottawa City Run Club at Superette, arguably the country’s trendiest cannabis shop, where athletes in Canada need to purchase CBD. CBD is the non-psychoactive component of the cannabis flower and, in America, it […]
“Make sure to have your Strava beacon on.” “Text me when you are back home.” “Carry a sharp object in your hand for safety.” “If you aren’t back in 30 minutes, I am calling the police.” Sound familiar? How often have you said these things? Every woman should have the right to run without fear. […]
The Marathon Beneva Quebec—A Healthy Invitation from Brunet, is rapidly approaching which means one of Canada’s greatest road running races is happening soon. The event kicks off September 30 and runs through October 2 and the price increase will take place on September 6th at 11:59 p.m., so grab one of the few remaining bibs […]
A woman died because she went for a run. It’s not right. It’s not fair and we can all help stop it. This hits me viscerally. I feel ashamed to be a man and feel disgusted this kind of story is not all that uncommon. Women deserve to be able to run at any time […]
If ever you’re looking for an antidote to the day’s bad news, it’s hard to beat asking runners what they think about when they think about Terry Fox. In the most popular Facebook post at iRun in months, we asked our readers what Terry means to them, just over a week out from the annual […]
As the Waterfront Marathon approaches, and violence in Saskatchewan dominates the news, I find myself missing and thinking about Ed. Ed, as runners in the community well know, is of course Ed Whitlock, the gentlemanly king of endurance running who rewrote the record book, and our preconceived notions, of what can be accomplished as we […]
Alex Cyr is that rarest of creatures: an elite runner and also an expert journalist. Cyr, who has written for Toronto Life and frequently for the Globe & Mail, recently wrote a story about running shoes for the paper that I found informative and readable, a very difficult mix when wading into the minutia of […]
It comes to no secret to anyone that Quebec City, besides hosting one of the country’s best races at the Beneva Quebec City Marathon starting September 30, also has lots of entertaining enticements to offer a racer when they’re not going for their gold, or resting. These are just some of the fall highlights in […]
