October 1, 2022 Before last weekend’s Chiggy Ultra, I never would have considered myself a trail runner. And now? Well, I tried. I’ve...

May 8, 2022 On any other day at the Fredericton Marathon, I wouldn’t have been satisfied with anything less than a PB. As circumstances...

November 7, 2021 There are not many marathons that I have felt the urge to go back and run a second time. Once I’ve climbed a hill, I’m...

July 25, 2021 It took a little longer than expected, but I finally got to run the Nova Scotia Marathon. The annual event in Barrington...

April 18, 2021 “Are u participating in the NS remembers?” The question, innocent enough, popped up in my inbox one day in April from my...

October 18, 2020 If 2020 has done anything for runners, it’s helped us become more creative with our goals. The majority of our...

July 26, 2020 Running alone is fun for me, but sharing a running experience with friends is a different kind of special. I confirmed this...

September 8, 2019 I ended up running my second marathon of 2019 in Moncton/Riverview, N.B., although it was not the Moncton marathon I...

June 16, 2019 Is it possible to feel significant improvement in a marathon, even when the clock doesn’t necessarily show it? I found out...

October 14, 2018 It’s about a half-hour bus ride from downtown Charlottetown to Brackley Beach, and, on the morning of Oct. 14, 2018,...

June 10, 2018 Heading into 2018, my quest to run all the Maritime marathons continued. I had become comfortable running two per year, one...

October 8, 2017 After what I thought was a PB at the Blue Nose, I continued into 2017 feeling confident and strong, back on track after a...

May 21, 2017 Exhausted after the summer of 2016 and my rough race at Maritime Race Weekend, I was in no hurry to do another marathon. I...

September 17, 2016 By 2016, I had been bitten pretty hard by the marathon bug, so much that running my one local event every year was no...

May 8, 2016 After completing my fourth and final Age of Sail Marathon in 2015, I realized two things. One, I had improved with each of my...

August 9, 2015 When it comes to running races, most runners are competing against two things – themselves, and that darned clock....

August 10, 2014 These days I never run with music, for different reasons. In my early days of running, however, it was a big part of my...

August 11, 2013 After finishing my first marathon in August of 2012, I didn’t really have any plans to do another. The first one had been...

August 12, 2012 This was my “I can’t believe I’m running a marathon” marathon. I had started running in the spring of 2011, and entered...