Following is an interview by Christopher Kelsall with Canada’s best heptathlete, Jessica Zelinka. This interview was originally published on Flotrack and made available to Trainharder.com with permission by the author.
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Jessica Zelinka of London, Ontario is Canada’s best Heptathlete. She holds the Canadian record with a performance where she amassed 6490 [...]
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Dr. Doug Clement is ever present in the Canadian Athletics scene. He is the cofounder of the Harry Jerome Track Classic in Vancouver, BC and is the Achilles International Track and Field Society President. His media releases are often and many, promoting the [...]
Following is Christopher Kelsall’s latest interview with up and coming distance runner Dayna Pidhoresky, who lives and trains in Ontario. This interview was originally published on Flotrack and made available to Trainharder.com with permission by the author.
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- Former Windsor Lancer, Dayna Pidhoresky of Tecumseh, Ontario is quickly becoming one of [...]
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What is one of the world’s greatest ultra-marathon runners up to these days?
Catching up with Scott Jurek these past few months has been a tough task, requiring the same determination required from an ultra marathon runner to win the [...]
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Canada’s current fastest marathon runner, Reid Coolsaet, finished first Canadian and 10th overall at the 2010 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon after struggling through two years of sub-par fitness due to injury. Although his personal best marathon time [...]
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2010 California International Marathon Champion Dylan Wykes, from Kingston, Ontario has his eyes set on competing for Canada during the 2012 London, Olympic Games.
Wykes has yet to qualify to run in the Olympic Games marathon with his CIM win and 2:12:39 [...]
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Guelph, Ontario’s Kyle Boorsma is the 2011 Canadian Inter-university Sport (CIS) Cross-Country Champion. Boorsma led his team, the Guelph Gryphons to their 5th consecutive national cross-country title on Saturday, November 13, 2011 at the Club de golf de Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Coached by Dave Scott-Thomas [...]
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Eric Gillis from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, recently finished as top-Canadian and 4th place over-all at the Ottawa 10k with his finishing time of 29:11. The Ottawa 10k is run in conjunction with the Ottawa Marathon weekend. On May 9th, Gillis finished second to Kip Kangogo at the 50, [...]
The following interview by Christopher Kelsall was originally published on Flotrack and re-produced here with permission.
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Simon Bairu of Regina, Saskatchewan is the greatest distance runner in Canadian history.
Amongst the vast wealth of athletics prognosticators, it appears that it is a foregone conclusion that he will take down the long-standing [...]
In an interview after his Canadian record-setting 10,000m race last weekend, Sasketchewan runner Simon Bairu describes his run and what it means to him. Here’s the full interview from Flotrack.
Originally published on Flotrack and reproduced here with permission, here is Christopher Kelsall’s latest interview, this one with Ian Torrence, an experienced ultra-runner (150 ultras to date) who has joined McMillan Running in Flagstaff, AZ as an Ultra Coach.
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McMillanRunning.com, has hired veteran ultra-runner Ian Torrence to head its new ultramarathon [...]
Following is another excellent interview by Victoria’s Christopher Kelsall. Originally published on Flotrack it has been posted here with permission.
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Brett Gotcher has gone from regular fast guy with Olympic dreams and a part time job to regular fast guy who is spending his post-marathon recovery time answering more questions [...]
The following interview is courtesy of Christopher Kelsall (who now twitters! @chris_kelsall) and was originally posted on the Flotrack website…
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In 1968 at the age of 21, Amby Burfoot won the historic, B.A.A Boston Marathon. John J. Kelley, who at that time, was the most recent American to win Boston, 11 years prior, happened to be [...]
Originally published on Flotrack and published here with permission – © Copyright – 2009 – Christopher Kelsall
I remember watching Ryan Hall race the 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon and thinking to myself that he seemed to be putting in a great effort and really just hanging on to the pace. He was not demonstrating that mystique [...]
Chris Kelsall recently reviewed legendary running coach Bart Yasso’s latest book “My Life on the Run”. Bart invented the Yasso 800s, a marathon-training schedule used by thousands around the world. Although originally posted on the Flotrack website, this article has been re-produced here with permission from Chris…
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I read the book “My Life on the Run” by Bart Yasso, [...]
Christopher Kelsall’s latest interview is will Kiwi athlete, coach and author Keith Livingstone. Keith is a Lydiard method enthusist, and has just published a book on the famous training method titled: Healthy Intelligent Training (H.I.T). This is a long interview, but if you are a fan of the Lydiard method then it is well worth [...]
Originally published on the Flotrack website, here’s Christopher Kelsall’s latest interview, this time with elite Canadian marathoner Nicole Stevenson…
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With a Commonwealth Games appearance and a 2:32 marathon personal best, Nicole Stevenson has been one of Canada’s elite marathon runners since 2002.
Coached by Hugh Cameron, Nicole transitioned from a middle distance runner to a marathoner smoothly, able [...]
Christopher Kelsall’s latest interview is with World Mountain Running Champion Jonathan Wyatt. Originally posted on the Flotrack website , Chris has given Trainharder.com permission to post his material (to check out Chris’s other interviews with athletes visit his blog ). Thanks Chris!
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Some things that exist in this universe we accept and expect just [...]
Here’s another great interview from Victoria athlete Christopher Kelsall. Originally published on the Flotrack website and reproduced here with Chris’s permission…
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Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur, adventurer and founder of the Virgin Group of companies, is delighted to be a part of the London Marathon, so-much-so that he signed one of his business ventures, ‘Virgin Money’, to [...]
The following interview of Olympic gold medalist runner Constantina Dita is courtesy of Christopher Kelsall and was originally posted on the Flotrack website .
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Constantina Dita (previously Tomescu-Dita) grew up on a farm surrounded by hills and the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. She would spend much time outside running for fun, chasing livestock, being free during the [...]
