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Suffice it to say it was an experience I won't forget. It is long, so I will leave it on my blog. www.bradcunningham.blogspot.com

Last night was fun with the VFAC crew at the Stanley Park version of Beaver Lake, a 1k version of a trail around a lake. As most of the club is racing the Sun Run this weekend in Vancouver (with close to 58 000 other people), it was a fun taper workout. For me it was 1k, 2k, 2k. The first 1k was done comfortably, and I finished in 3:33. I was a little surprised at how quick it was relative to how I felt. But that was nothing as compared to the next interval. The first loop of the 2k interval w… Continue

Last night, as Sonja continued to run with her clinic, I went out for my last true workout prior to Boston. Meandering around Kits and the endowment lands of UBC, I spotted a trail and took it for a ride. I have been on the road so much of later in preparation for the pounding of the Boston roads, that the idea of running on a trail was too inviting. As I am fully in my taper now, everything is a little mixed up. Science tells us that the training effect for any given stress (read: workout) on t… Continue

Saturday and the Sun Well, we are getting down to go time. Yesterday, basking in the sun and 20 degree weather, a hint of the summer to come, I hit the track with Jay, Paul, and the VFAC crew. Coach John had a "surprise" workout for us. I remember doing this for my running clinics, and now I see why it was both loved and loathed. All we knew was that we had 4200m of effort to complete. A 400m warm up (70 seconds) and a mile (4:40) were the first two pieces. After that we were told what the dis… Continue

So while tonight was a day off, yesterday was a day to test out the new shoes I just received from Brooks. The new racing flat, the Racer ST, arrived at my door yesterday and I was eager to give them a go because I was considering them as my Boston shoe. The look awesome and fit well, but they do have a degree of medial posting. I have not worn a posted in shoe in about 6 years, so this feeling was simultaneously odd and familiar. I gave the shoe 30 minutes and I loved everything about it except… Continue