Canadian Running

Dedicated to getting runners the tools they need to succeed, Canadian Running gives professional advice and inspiration on everything you need to be faster, fitter and healthier. The magazine provides the latest on training, gear reviews, nutrition information and recipes, tips on the best places to run and race, and the inside story on the elite running scene.

Meet the Staff • Cory Nagler

VOLUME 18, ISSUE 2

THE WARMUP

Should You Start a Run Streak • The streak can be alluring, but beware the pitfalls

Building MOMentum • This organization is on a mission to support elite athletes as they start or grow their families

Nanjing Noshes • In honour of this month’s World Athletics Indoor Championships, some Chinese dishes—with a Western twist

The Marathon Diet • You almost can’t eat too much food when training for 42.2 km

Improve Your Strength Workouts To Improve Your Fitness • How to get more out of your gym sessions

The Norwegian Method, Tested • How to understand the real point of the double threshold workout

How to Break Through • If you’re having trouble making running enjoyable, you could be trying to do too much too soon

Put (a) Spring Back Into Your Step • Workouts await, but be wise about returning to speedwork

Rossland, B.C. • This mountain town near the U.S. border has so much runnable singletrack, you can explore for days

Cape to Cabot, St. John’s, Newfoundland • This very hilly east-coast race is as challenging mentally as it is physically

Funchal Marathon, Madeira, Portugal • This scenic race makes the perfect start to a sub-tropical island vacation

Spring Training Blitz • YOUR FIRST RACE OF THE SEASON IS ON THE HORIZON. GET TO THE STARTLINE RACE-READY WITH THESE 14 TIPS FROM PROS

The Escape Artist • Quinton Jacobs’s community-based ultra relays have made him a figure of some renown in southern Ontario’s running community. As he prepares to stage his most ambitious running project to date, we learned a little about what drives him and what he hopes to leave behind

Racing Against the Odds • OUR HEAVY DEPENDENCE ON THE U.S. SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING CANADIAN ATHLETES MAY BE JEOPARDIZING CANADA’S WINNING STREAK

Spring Shoe Buyer’s Guide • All your favourites updated, plus new models for spring

Terror of the Treadmill • During a polar vortex, the treadmill is a necessary evil