Just Jess, diary of a fit girl

The Pre-Race shake out. What is it exactly? Well, similar to what it sounds like. It is a smaller version of (whatever style) race you're doing My most recent season, although short involved the shake out. My girlfriend offered to help me with post baby training for my triathlon and 10km trail race. It was nice to have a plan for the weight room and different styles of running, biking and swimming because I've been doing my own programming and honestly there is fault in that for a few reasons 1 - I don't pre write out my workouts. Things get missed and areas aren't being trained possibly as often to illicit the best gains 2 - I haven't taken any training to write programs. At best seeing or leaning online from podcasts or influencers will only get you so far. There is a lot of bad info out there My girlfriend has the training   to teach others and she's also personally experienced in training for long distances. Winner! As I shared before I was real...

Run, Run, Run Last year I was looking into stroller friendly races to do with the wee man once he was "old enough" to be in the running stroller. I went onto facebook market to find a used running stroller and I grabbed a Thule / Chariot for 40$ (they retail upwards of 700$ brand new!) and once Ethan was big enough we were off! It's very light weight a little large considering its a single stroller but it certainly does the trick! I've taken the stroller on some (basic) trails and gone running around our neck of the woods. You may have seen earlier that I did a trail race in November, and managed a sub 1-hour time! Which was my goal. I had friends surprise me on race day! and had three people to pace me - aka encourage me to speed up! I signed up for a stroller friendly 5km in Vancouver. It was on March 7th and the weather held out! I've been super unlucky  with the races I've picked over the last little while as far as weather is concerned. It poured...