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Louise Landry is nothing short of inspirations as we talk about how she will accept no limitations. At age 56, a stroke survivor and more active than people half her age, Louise continues to push her limits and inspire those around her.
Louise has been a part of Monthly Membership since is started over a year ago (at the time of this post/recording) and has been with us for whole food detoxes before hand. Along with workouts throughout the week, weekly yoga and NIA classes Louise stays active all the time.
As a stroke survivor and limitations in eye sight and her left arm Louise doesn’t let anything hold her back, in fact you might say she does more than the average person regardless of what limitation might be put in front of her.
Dorothy and I traveled to Lethbridge to run with Louise for her first 5K after training for only 4 months. She’ll tell you herself she doesn’t love running, but I think the challenge is what keeps her going. She actually signed up for another 5k that she hopes to run in the winter to raise money for the food bank.
In this interview I asked Louise if she had any advice for someone that might say they are too old to set a new goal or go after something that might interest them. She said, ‘give it a shot, there’s always a way around any limitation you may seem to have. Take it slow, schedule your workouts in and work progressively toward your goals‘.
Truly an inspiration. Thank you for all that you do Louise, we couldn’t be happier we found you. -
I am blessed to be a happily married wife, mother of 3 children , physician and triathlete. I truly believe exercise is medicine.
Exercise and my faith has carried me through very deep valleys in my life. In combination with healthy eating, exercise is the best life insurance you can buy for yourself. It has become a priority in my life, over a perfectly clean house and up to date laundry.
Everyone can achieve huge goals in life by sticking to a plan and doing a little bit every day. With six years of commitment, I was blessed to compete in 3 World Championship races, raced Boston Marathon and I am training to do my first Full Ironman in November. -
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Dean Kroetsch is in his Mid-fifties, happily married father of four, grandfather of one J. Active all my life in recreational sports but I don’t really consider myself an “athlete”. I do take pride in being in it for “the long run”; married to the same beautiful woman for 32 years. I’ve worked for the same company and career for over 36 years. And I run long distance races fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada through Team In Training.
I ran some cross country when I was in junior high school but not since. My daughter Brianne got me back into running in 2014. We went in a half marathon in Calgary where I saw the table for Team In Training.
My Dad is a leukemia survivor. Bone marrow transplant in 1990. Still alive today. 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren he wouldn’t have experienced were it not for the research done and the patient care given to him. I help fundraise so others can live lives of victory. -
Kathrine Switzer has long been one of running’s most iconic figures. But when she was inducted into the U.S.A. National Women’s Hall of Fame, it was not just for breaking barriers being the first female to finish the Boston Marathon, or last woman to win the NYC Marathon, but also for creating positive global social change. Because of her, millions of women are now empowered by the simple act of running.
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Listen to Dorothy as she talks about the importance of running with a purpose. After her friend and running partner passed away she decided to start a campaign called Running for Rozina where Dorothy plans to raise money for the Children’s Hospital art program.
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Faye Stenning is a professional Spartan racer. She finished 2nd in 2016 US Championship Series and 3rd at 2016 Spartan World Championships.
Faye Stenning OCR talks about grueling workouts, her no excuse attitude and tips and motivation as well to help you get to and through your own workouts! -
Santi Rodriguez is a seminarian at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX. He has a bachelor's degree in Theology and Philosophy, a master's in Social and Political Thought, and a master's in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. He has worked as spiritual director, retreat director, and a chaplain in an ICU unit. Currently, he is completing a master's in divinity, as he prepares for ordination next summer.
A native of Colombia, Rodriguez called Canada home for 14 years before moving to the United States to be with his now wife. He is a husband and father.
Santi is a midpacker runner. He started running five years ago. Since then, he has focused mostly on improving his time in longer races. He has learned to love the process more than the results. He has run a dozen half-marathons and four marathons. He is currently training for his first ultra: a virtual 50k in October, 2020.
For more information on how Santi understands the spirituality of running, see this blog entry:
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Martin Parnell is author of the book, MARATHON QUEST and speaks on having a “Finish the Race Attitude – Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Your Full Potential”. Martin has written for, or been covered by CNN, BBC, CBC, The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Runners World, Men’s Journal, Canadian Business, and Maclean’s. In a five year period, from 2010 to 2014, Martin completed 10 extreme endurance “Quests” including running 250 marathons in one year and raising $1.3m for the humanitarian organization Right To Play.
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For over 15 years, Rod Dixon was among the world’s best middle distance runners, winning medals at the Olympics, World Cross Country Championships, 1500 meter Champion of the United States, France, Great Britain & New Zealand, and Champion of the 1983 New York City Marathon.
What Rod experienced and remembered most as a boy, a visit from Sir Edmund Hillary to his school, that visit instilled Inspiration, Empowered Rod Dixon to Achieve success in running the hills and trails outside of Nelson, New Zealand, and that Inspiration, the thrill of competition, team work, fitness and health are the legs of the KiDS Running and Nutrition program he created in 1990 in New Zealand to inspire the next generation, a promise he made to Sir Edmund in 1972.
KiDSMARATHON is designed as an “In-School” 8 - 10 or 40 week Run Club/Daily Mile program for elementary age school children. The essential components of the program, “Healthy Connections” nutrition education - healthy eating, training tips, and running skills for the duration of the program. The “Final Mile” is a celebration of their achievements where they are awarded a finisher shirt and replica medal from a race that Rod Dixon has participated in. -
Native from Los Angeles, Nadia Ruiz is an educator, coach, and speaker aiming to make a change in her community by motivating and inspiring individuals of all backgrounds to achieve their goals. Nadia's fitness journey began when she stepped on the start line to her first marathon at the age of 14.
Crossing the finish line with her father for the first time transformed her and she fell in love with the sport. Twenty-two years later, she has completed 145 marathons with 75 Boston Qualifiers, 100 half marathons, 16 full and half Ironmans, 16 ultra marathons, and several adventure races, frequently in the top of her age group or overall women. She has traveled the world to 27 countries exploring challenging events, cultures, and connecting with people around the world to now almost reaching 500 lifetime races.
Graduating from UCLA with a Bachelor's in Biology, Master's in Education, and CA Biology Teacher's credential, she has taught, coached, and worked in event production for the past 15 years. In 2013, Nadia was named the Youngest Latina to Run 100 Marathons in the world. In 2020, racing, travel, and events have come to a stop; however, she continues to try to educate and inspire her online community as she recreates herself in a changing industry.
Nadia's goal is to continue to inspire her community and make an impact as a coach, speaker, and athlete demonstrating we each have it within us to follow our biggest dreams. -
Dave Proctor is nothing short of a mad man! Running for 24 hours is something most of haven’t even considered, in fact, to be truthful, before I heard about Dave I had no idea people actually did this for a sport.
I asked Dave about ‘being on top’, I was wondering what it was like to be the best at what he did, and as a record holder in several fields he certainly is. His humble response was along the lines of ‘I still consider myself the same person, just strapping on my shoes and going for a run’. He talked about the overwhelming feeling of running for incredibly long distances when they’re finally done or after he’s reached another milestone.
It was an absolute pleasure having Dave on the show, he spoke in a way that was easy to understand (especially while talking to someone that isn’t clear about all that entails being an ‘ultra marathoner’.
One of my favourite parts of the interview is when I asked Dave how he find time to run for such long distances being a husband and father, along with being a massage therapist. He told me, it comes down to priorities, we make time for those priorities in our life.
Who is Dave Proctor?
Dave Proctor lives in Black Diamond Alberta, has 3 kids, a wife and is a massage therapist. He is the Canadian 24 hour record holder, the 2013-14 Canadian 100K champion and the 2015 Canadian 100M champion. -
Blaine’s connection to MitoCanada was a result of his son Evan who tragically went from being a perfectly normal 4-year-old kid (8 years ago) to a spastic quadriplegic overnight (who could not longer walk, talk or eat) as a result of mitochondrial disease. Blaine has poured his spare time over the past 7 years into helping raise awareness, provide support and raise funds for mitochondrial disease.
Blaine Penny is a passionate family man, Engineer, endurance athlete and volunteer. Blaine is a business executive by day, leading the Canadian operations for IHS Global Canada Ltd. – a global Information Services company – and a volunteer with MitoCanada Foundation by night. Blaine was a co-founder and past President and CEO of MitoCanada (2009 – 2015), the first and only Canadian charity in support of mitochondrial disease. -
Coach Denise, AKA The Marathon Whisperer has been coaching runners of all abilities and ages since 2010. She started coaching part-time after surviving a near fatal car accident. It’s been her way to give back to running for what running has given to her since she first laced up her running shoes in the 4th grade. Through her coaching business, Run For Change, she provides virtual, group and one on one coaching. In the latter, she literally runs the race and or workout with her client. In 2016, Denise left her 26-year career in accounting to coach full-time because she is that passionate about sharing running and finish lines with anyone that comes her way. She has guided runners to their first mile all the way to their first 100-mile event. She recently published a book to help runners complete their first marathon, “Me, You & 26.2 -Coach Denise’s Guide to Get YOU to YOUR First Marathon”
Denise is also a Co-founder of Girls on the Run-Chicago. She has personally run over 300 races across 7 Continents. This includes 117 marathons, 2 Ironman triathlons and 2 100-mile ultramarathons. In 2019 she completed her second round of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, became a member of the 7 Continents Club and also fulfilled her life long dream to go to Everest Base Camp. She ran the Everest Marathon! Her goal in working with her clients is to help them run their first, fastest and or funnest race. She is a Certified Road Runners Club of America and UASTF Level 1 certified coach.
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For most of my life I’ve been the athlete, funny how I find myself in a new position in life as more so the coach. I can’t say I’ve entirely understood coaches (I had a hard time really connecting with most I’ve had). But the experience is entirely different.
You work so hard to prepare who you’re working with. It’s not like the sessions are over after the 60 mins is up. You’re always thinking about the progress of whomever you’re working with (online or in person). I’m wondering how they’re doing during the week. If what we’ve talked about is working, if it will get them results and if what is expected is being done.
You almost feel helpless at times because you’re not able to actually do it for them. All you can do is support, encourage and find ways to help them get results. I almost find myself more nervous at times coaching than when I was performing.
Their victories almost feel like yours both big and small, and their set backs are yours the same as you find new ways to help them reach the goals you both set out to achieve.
A big shout out to Noel Darcy who’s been working with me for quite some time. More months than I can count, he came to me and said he’ll be training for the Death Race in Grande Cache which is 125 KM course. Hard to even try to understand how long that is for most of us.
Noel’s been working incredibly hard from nutrition to workouts and (especially in this case) recovery. At the point of this post there’s only 23hrs until the race begins and I couldn’t be more excited for all of Noel’s hard work to pay off. Looking forward to hearing how it goes Noel, we’ll be with you.
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Today we're bringing on Dorothy Keith to talk about Essential Oils for Runners. She's super passionate about holistic health and helping people live healthy lives.
In this case she wanted to share her love and passion of essential oils and teach runners how they can make a difference in their lives.
The main topics we'll cover today is the Respitory system, very important for runners. We all know if you can't catch your breath it's going to be very difficult to finish your run strong.
We have muscle recovery, which means the quicker we recovery the sooner we'll be able to get back at those challenging workouts.
Hydration is always important for runners especially for how much fluid is lost during runs.
Digestion is another topics as well because we know how nervous some people get right before a race. Dorothy talks about how to calm your nerves and prevent an upset stomach.
And lastly she'll talk about what oils help with mental clarity. We know how important the mental game of athletics is, so why not use some of these tips to step up your mental game before a race!
The oils listed and talked about in this show include the following:
Respiratory - Raven, RC, Eucalyptus
Muscle Recovery - Panaway, Copaiba, Peppermint
Hydration - Lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange
Digestion - Digize, Aromaease, Peppermint
Mental Clarity - Frankincense, Valor
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About twelve years ago, at the age of 38, I was still playing a lot of team sports. I was a marginal varsity basketball player in university and was still playing in local men's leagues and some weekly pick-up games and was playing touch football in a solid league. However, I was realizing that this was something that couldn't go on forever and was looking for something to fill the void. Around the same time, my wife started running while attending medical school.
She had worked as a nurse for a number of years, and had decided she wanted to go in another direction, and she was lucky enough to get into Dalhousie in 2006. She started running with a friend and eventually ran a half-marathon. Then she decided she wanted to do a marathon. During training, her uncle said to her, "If you qualify for Boston in your first marathon, I'll take you there and pay for the whole trip," thinking she wouldn't stand a chance as it's pretty rare for someone to qualify for Boston as a hobby jogger running their first marathon. She qualified by three minutes and ran her first Boston in 2009.
I was watching this whole scenario unfold from a distance and saw how hooked she was getting on running. The physical, mental and spiritual benefits she was getting were obvious, so I decided to give it a whirl. Gradually, I got to the point where I was running a few days a week, ran a half myself and decided to run my first full in 2009. I was hooked. Running took over. I not only started running myself, but I wanted to share my love of running with everyone I possibly could.
I started coaching cross country and track at the school I was teaching at, and I cranked up my own mileage. When we moved back to PEI, I called my friend who was AD at the high school I was going to teaching at. He asked me which basketball team I wanted to coach, and I replied, "I'll help you out with whatever you need, but what I really want to do is build a cross country and track and field program."
He was very supportive, and it's really paid off. We've built a real culture at our school and in our community where a lot of people are reaping the benefits of running. It's totally normal for us to have upwards of 60 athletes on our cross teams and 75 involved in track and field. I absolutely love going somewhere around town and seeing a pod of our students running, or a huge number of them on the start line of a local road race, or when one of them has a great run and posts it on Strava, not to mention the large number of Colonel Gray High School students who have gone on to compete at the Usport level.
In 2014, my friend the AD took the next step in his journey and was hired to take over the helm as AD at UPEI. Shortly after, he called me and said, let's build the same thing at the collegiate level. I took a year to get things up and running, but it was too much to coach two programs and do it well. I had also just finished my masters and had undertaken a counselling role at my school, and my wife and I had just had our third child. So I handed off the program to long-established local coach, and he took care of things until last year, when I felt I was ready to take things on and do it right. Now, I'm trying to build something at UPEI.
We took some big steps last year, and I'm hopeful we can continue to keep moving in the right direction. Along the way, I've managed to run 19 marathons, 3 ultras - including my first 100-miler last year - and countless other road and trail races. I'm getting older, but I've managed to keep taking chunks off my PBs - we call then PBs in Canada - and was pretty happy with the 2:47 I ran in Chicago last fall just 8 weeks after the 100-miler.
It was pretty cool when I searched up the results and realized I was the first Canadian in my age group;) I love running. My family loves running. And we are doing the best we can to help everyone around us love it too.
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Ben Hubers is a personal trainer specializing in spinal health. After a successful track & field career at Indiana University, he trained as a professional distance runner, specializing in the 3k and 5k distances. After posting personal bests in the spring of 2013, his training was disrupted by nagging pain that never seemed to get better. He grew accustomed to chronic pain which limited his training and took a toll on his mindset. After expensive MRIs and two painful, ultimately ineffective cortisone injections, Ben started seeing a chiropractor, Dr. Brian Murer, DC.
Dr. Murer introduced Ben to a whole world of manual medicine and to the exercise principles of ELDOA. Created by renowned French Osteopath Dr. Guy Voyer, DO, the ELDOA exercises slowly began healing the tension and chronic pain that Ben had developed over a decade of distance running. Ben was ultimately able to reduce his pain and train for the Olympic Trials in 2016.
Since then, Ben has moved to California to continue his training using the principles of Dr. Voyer's work. He developed some of the first ELDOA classes in the LA area and, due to this, was targeted to start working at Evolution Physical Therapy. He was able to really expand his scope of practice and use the ELDOA postures to help multiple clients overcome back pain and injuries. Ben currently works at Link Medical Center in Orange County as head Soma Trainer where he is able to use his skill set as an exercise specialist to compliment some of the best chiropractors in United States. He is currently one of less than 150 certified ELDOA trainers in the world. -
It's a challenging time for many runners. With running groups being canceled, races and organized runs all be postponed for the foreseeable future, what do runners run for? How do they stay motivated and what's to come?
In this show I offer some tips and suggestions on what we can do. How we can stay on track. Seeing goals, working together, being part of the solution instead of part of the problem. -
Jacob Simmons and his family have a farm that grows cranberries, tart cherries, highbush blueberries, raspberries and black currants in beautiful Point Prim, Prince Edward Island. They also own and operate a tile drainage company that installs agricultural land drainage in New Brunswick and in PEI, and Jacob works with his father on both operations.
As a former basketball player, he had an invitation-only tryout for Team Canada's National Cadet squad with two future #1 overall NBA draft picks in the mix as well as various other NCAA division one players. He also played at St. FX University, Holland College and Olds College. After leaving college and losing the ability to run and exercise fully (due to injury) for a year, he was bitten by the running bug and came back onto the scene with a vengeance.
It was a major year of change for him. He overcame a broken wrist, torn meniscus and an ulcer in his cornea which led him to quit cigarettes and lose 40 pounds. He went from not competing in any road races for almost ten years to running in 27 races including his first marathon and also a 3000+ person race in Galway, Ireland.
That year, 2019, Jacob didn't start racing or even running outdoors until May and he was able to accomplish a lot in 8 months. He challenged himself to start off this new decade by running a half marathon (he never ran an official half marathon race before attempting his first full marathon) in each of the four Atlantic provinces, the "Hypothermic Half Marathon" series hosted by the Running Room, with a goal of a top 10 finish in all four provinces.
After completing the winter half marathon gauntlet he will begin training for his second marathon in May, and less than two weeks after running that he will compete in the scenic Cabot Trail Relay race in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia with a 20km run up Mt. Smokey.
He also have his eyes set on his first duathlon and maybe an ultra race this year as well as biking from one end of Prince Edward Island to the other in one day using the Confederation trail systems for a total of 273kms. Jacob knows he has a lot to learn, but he’s enjoying every step he’s taken to date in finding a new fitness passion. -
Julie Weiss, of Santa Monica, CA., ran 52 marathons in 52 weeks in 2013. In the process, she ran 1,362.4 miles, and to date has raised over $640,000 in the fight against pancreatic cancer through her website Marathongoddess.com.
Julie generated considerable pancreatic cancer awareness through high profile media attention on CNN, The TODAY Show, the Los Angeles Times. O Magazine and many other outlets. She is also one of seven featured runners in the inspiring documentary Spirit of the Marathon II. Following the death of her father, her biggest fan, from Pancreatic Cancer, she was feeling determined to make a difference.
Running gave her the answer. Julie decided to turn her passion into a purpose and embarked on this incredible endeavor to raise hope, money and awareness for Pancreatic Cancer, the 3rd leading cause of cancer death in the United States, also the lowest funded for research.
Julie chose the name Marathon Goddess but is quick to point out its true meaning that it is not about her, it’s a name that allows Julie to encourage others to embrace their passion and let it shine. Julie has now run 108 marathons to date. In February 2019 she released her memoir, 52 Weeks, 52 Marathons: The Miles and Trials of a Marathon Goddess and in February 2020 she released her children’s book “We Got This” both available now on Amazon.
Julie is about to complete another 52 races at the 2020 Los Angeles Marathon, this campaign is called 52 races for 52 faces, honoring someone affected by pancreatic cancer for each race benefiting The Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The 2020 Los Angeles Marathon will be Julie’s 109th marathon. - Montre plus
