Running With — Canada’s Olympic Poet, Priscila Uppal
I hardly recognize professor and writer Priscila Uppal when we meet for a run just a few days before she jetted to London to compete in her very own endurance performance event: Pumping out two poems a...
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Running With: Mental Strategies to Run Stronger
First published in Canadian Running, September 2012 By Margaret Webb It did not take long for pre-race enthusiasm to ratchet up to high anxiety. We had already accomplished what we thought was the...
View ArticleWelcome to the “Next Big Thing” Blogathon
Started by Kathryn Kuitenbrower, the “Next Big Thing” poses 10 questions to writers about what they are working on. I answer those questions here. See links below this post to find out what big thing...
View ArticleOlder Faster Stronger: The Plan
If you think turning 50 sucks, try running a little harder then watch time spin backwards. The research is spilling out — that endurance training can stall and even reverse the clock on aging. I lap...
View ArticleOlder Faster Stronger: The Cavemam Diet
This is the first thing I did on my road to super fitness. Lost 10 pounds in five weeks. Super-charged my energy and health. Didn’t count a single calorie. And developed a new delicious way of eating...
View ArticleOlder, Faster, Stronger: People Been Writing About My Diet
The Caveman Diet – Make Your Body Roar By Kirsten Bedard, reprinted from her fantastic Ladylean blog, with Kirsten’s permission. No one can better attest to the power of proper fuel than an endurance...
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Older, Faster, Stronger: Yes, but not invincible
Janet thought the snap was a tree branch, as her right foot, at full running stride, plunged into a pothole and remained there, while she abruptly collapsed down onto it. I didn’t hear the crack but...
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Older Faster Strong: Setting World Records at 50+
It was totally inspiring to see top masters sprinters in Canada — Patty Blanchard, Karen Gold, Donna Dixon and Laurie Meloche — team up at the Canadian Indoor Nationals to set a new World Record in the...
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Older Faster Stronger: 85 and still running strong
Had a chance to hang out with World Record holder Betty Jean McHugh as she underwent a battery of tests at McGill University, the Montreal Masters Study, to find out how she has managed to run...
View ArticleOlder Faster Stronger: Celebrate the Running Sisterhood With an All-Women’s Race
Signing up for a race or five over the season is a fantastic motivator to step up your training. And what more fun way to test your fitness than a spin with the running sisterhood? All-women’s races...
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Why All Women’s Races are Winning Fans
An inside peak at the biggest phenomena in running: Women’s only races By Margaret Webb, first published in Canadian Running Magazine, 2013 It is the forecast that race director Cory Freedman dreaded:...
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Older, Faster, Stronger: Going the Distance
Join me in my 2014 challenge: To get fitter this year than I was last. After trying to achieve the fitness of a 20-year-old in 2013 (by some measures I made it; by marathon measureI fell 3 minutes...
View ArticleOlder, Faster, Stronger: Fix Your Weakness
At the start of every training year, I commit to doing one more thing to make myself fitter, stronger, faster. Last year I overhauled just about everything in a bid to get in the best shape of my life...
View ArticleCelebrate Gay Athletes and Protest Putin
On February 6, between 5:30 and 5:20 p.m., runners and walkers will create a giant flowing PINK TRIANGLE on the walkways of Queen’s Park to celebrate gay athletes, support LGBTQ global equality and...
View ArticleOlder, Faster, Stronger: Going the Distance
Last summer, I was soundly beaten in a 60-metre sprint by a 76-year-old great-grandmother. I expected the trouncing; after all, I was up against the world’s fastest 75-plus female sprinter, Christa...
View ArticleOlder Faster Stronger: More speed, less distance?
The fastest 60-year-old woman in the world, Torontonian Karla Del Grande, once thought, like the vast majority of us, that running means distance running. Then, at 50, while trying to boost her speed...
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2014 Boston in Pictures: Older, Faster, #Boston Stronger
Rather than running Boston 2014 hard, my goal was to soak up this greatest celebration of running ever, by speaking to as many people as possible, hearing their stories and reveling in the joyous...
View Article2014 Boston: How Do We Make Sense of Our Marathon?
Over its 42.2 kilometres, a marathon is a story. As I prepared to run in Boston a year after the devastating bombing of 2013 – the biggest celebration of running ever, as so many described it – I...
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2014 Boston in Pictures: Older, Faster, #Boston Stronger
Rather than running Boston 2014 hard, my goal was to soak up this greatest celebration of running ever, by speaking to as many people as possible, hearing their stories and reveling in the joyous...
View Article2014 Boston: How Do We Make Sense of Our Marathon?
Over its 42.2 kilometres, a marathon is a story. As I prepared to run in Boston a year after the devastating bombing of 2013 – the biggest celebration of running ever, as so many described it – I...
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