…well, at least new to us.

The Long Road – the blog of former Olympic marathon runner and Pan Am Games Silver Medalist Bruce Deacon, who now resides in Coquitlam. Bruce is currently rehabbing from injury and is using his new blog to document the process.

My Mountain Biking Adventures - Teresa Edgar is a Comox Valley mountain biker who writes about her mountain biking adventures.

Running, Rocks and Rock – Steve has a passion for both geology and trail running, and hopes to soon run the Wasatch or Hard Rock 100 milers.

Trail Tales -Colin Wilson’s blog contains a wealth of information for the Comox Valley mountain biker. One of his currently projects includes mapping the local trails.

Donna Carrigan at Mt. Kilimanjaro

Please join us in welcoming Donna Carrigan, an award winning adventurer & entrepreneur, executive coach and fun raiser, as Trainharder’s newest blogger.

Our longtime readers might remember Donna as one of team members of Team Gobi Canada, who competed in the 250k Gobi Desert March in 2007. Rob Mackay and Donald Peterson (a.k.a Trainharder’s Jarhead) were the other members of the team.

Click here to visit her blog!

• Demian Seale – Demian’s blog is the newest to be hosted by Trainharder and the first time body building has been featured on Trainharder.
• Rain City Runner – the blog of Vancouverite Tim Adkins.

Be sure to check them both out…

The Training Blogs page has been updated. Although a number of blogs were removed due to absent or delinquent owners, a great collection of new blogs (new to us at least) were added. If you can please take the time to check them out…

• Kerry Spearing – an elite triathlete living in Victoria.
• Fueled by caffeine and sugar – the blog of triathlete Nick Gottfried, living and training in Victoria.
• Jasper Blake – elite Ironman-distance triathlete, among many accomplishments Jasper has won Ironman Canada.
• Alison Hooper – a grade 12 student and triathlete from Victoria.
• Alex Coates – a triathlete and Uvic student from Victoria.
• SleepMonsters – a Canadian-based adventure racing news site and pseudo blog.
• Andrew in BC – multisport athlete living in Vancouver.
• What makes me tick – the blog of Peter Watson, owner of North Shore Athletics.
• Heather Runs – new to the ultra community, Heather is a physiotherapist living in Vancouver.
• Fueling Endurance Performance – a nutrition blog from the folks at PT Performance Training.

• Running Gay – the blog of J. D. MacDonald, who lives and trains in Vancouver. J started racing when he was 21 and over the years has run the National Championships, won team championships and has kept getting faster. He hopes his blog will bring a different voice to running from a gay perspective.
• Steve’s Trek Across Canada – we don’t really know what’s this blog is about but Steve is a runner who appears to want to run across Canada.

We have just discovered a great new running blog… it’s called Pistol Runs and it’s the online training journal of Peter Holmes.

Peter moved to Vancouver in March from the UK and is currently training with the Vancouver Falcons Running Club. He plans on hitting some 5 and 10k races over the summer and will use his blog to document his running experiences in and around BC.

Be sure to check out his blog!

http://pistolruns.blogspot.com/

A number of new training blogs have been added to the site…

• Running Callendar – the running journal of Chris Callendar, a resident of Victoria.
• A Really Good Blog – the blog of Nick Best, another resident of Victoria.
• Mj’s Tri Blog - Workouts and race reports of a triathlete in Victoria. 
• Road to Worlds 2009 – a documentation of Richard Knowlton’s planning and preparation in the lead up to the September 2009 Triathlon World Championships in Australia.
• Kamal Rae – a triathlete from BC. 
• Getting’ Ugly Out There – triathlete Jeff Symonds of Penticton. 
• Calvin’s Absurd World – the blog of Calvin Gehlen, triathlete, coach and owner of Finish Line Coaching, Ltd.
• Rachel Kiers – the blog of Rachel Kiers, a professional triathlete.
• Brent McMahon – a professional triathlete living and training in Victoria.
• And so the story goes… – the blog of Nicole, a runner from BC.
• FCH Life and Triathlon – the blog of Facundo Chernikoff, a triathlete from Vancouver. 

The following new ultra running blog has been added to the site - Nicola Gildersleeve – An Ultra Runner’s Blog. Nicola grew up in North Vancouver and is currently one of Canada’s top female ultrarunners. Be sure to check out her blog…

Please join us in welcoming our newest blogger, Chris Price, whose blog Pricey Runs, has just been added to the site. 

Chris is a recent convert into the world of health and fitness, whose passions include running, biking, circiut and weight training and nutrition.

Although Chris currently is sporting a sprained ankle he’s looking forward to a good 2009.

The Training Blogs section of this site has recently been cleaned up. The biggest change is the removal of each sub-sport page, now every single blog is listed on the main page. This should now allow for easier browsing.

Also, the following blogs have also been added:

• AdamO – The Green Rebel - a triathlete from Victoria who has been at the sport for a few years.
• Martina Wan - Martina’s goal is to become an international elite level triathlete while pursuing a career.
• Heather Hollman
• Gettin’ Ugly Out There - the blog of Penticton resident Jeff Symonds.
• The Insouciant Athlete - the blog of Kevin Frisch, a Vancouver Island resident who has started blogging in order to keep himself modivated in his pursuit of fitness.
• Momentum Magazine Blogs - a series of cycling blogs published on the Momentum website. The blogs cover a wide range of topics related to cycling.

If you know of any more that aren’t listed please let us know!

A new blog has been added to the site. Check out the blog of Lauren Groves, an elite triathlete currently living in Vancouver. Lauren ’s career highlights include being named to the Canadian Olympic team in 2008, winning her first National Championship in 2006, reaching a career high World Cup ranking of third after the 2006 Edmonton World Cup and again after 2006 World Championships and finishing in the top-8 in first 10 races of the 2006 season.

A new running blog has been added to Trainharder. Denise Helm, an editor at the Times Colonist newspaper in Victoria, writes about her training and about events in Victoria. She runs to deal with stress and to support her love of food and drink. Sounds like our kind of runner! Click here to visit her blog. 

Following is an excerpt from a recent posting titled “How to get off track”:

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I did one of those “fit it in” runs last night, squeezing a short one in between work and grocery shopping.

On time-starved evenings like that when an excuse is as convenient and tempting as a Kit Kat at the check-out line, I look for an extra nudge.

I chose to run the Cedar Hill Golf Course chip trail, which I love despite its hills and bark mulch that is attracted to white socks like steel shavings to a magnet. The bonus is that it’s close to a grocery story.

Starting from behind the Cedar Hill rec centre, I suddenly became self conscious that a room full of bored treadmill runners would be staring at my backside as I attempted to run up the first hill.

Continue reading…

We’ve recently added a new blog to the site…. check out the blog of Myke Labelle. Myke is based out of Victoria, BC, and is an up and coming trail ultra runner. Myke’s first ultra was last year’s Elk/Beaver 50k. His goals are to go farther and longer and to complete in some of the craziest races in the world.

A new blog has been added to the site, 245kms of Sand . This is the blog of Ian Cunliffe, an elementary school teacher working in North Vancouver who is training for the 2009 Marathon De Sables (MdS). The MdS is a 6 day/243km endurance race across the Sahara Desert in Morocco, normally taking place at the end of March/beginning of April. Ian is using the race as an opportunity to help raise awareness and support for child refugees from Darfur, specifically to raise money for UNICEF, which is currently funding a number of schools in refugee camps for these children in crisis. Be sure to check it out and support Ian in his cause!

Please take the time to check out these recently added blogs:

• Zaphod Runs (running) – Greg Herringer’s running journal.
• Kyle Jones (triathlon) – a Canadian Triathlete training under the direction of Triathlon Canada team coach Joel Filliol.
• Steed Cycles Blog (cycling – mountain biking) – Steed Cycles is a well-known North Vancouver bike shop. This blogs offers its take on all the latest cycling gear.

There’s a new Trainharder-hosted blog – Demian Seale. Demian is a a Cat 3 roadie with a hockey background who didn’t start riding and racing until 2004. He has developed a love for time trials and this year is going to try to expand into triathlon and duathlon (if his ankle can handle the running!). He is also a graduate student in English at the University of Victoria. Be sure to check it out!

The following blogs have been added to the site recently. Check them out!

• MuddySocks – a community and blog for trail runners of all sorts. The site was started by well known Victoria athlete and trail running addict Adam Campbell.
• Journey to my first half ironman – a triathlete from Ladysmith
• Vincent’s Ramblings – a triathlete and cyclist from Vancouver.
• Paul Tichelaar’s Triathlon Blog – a Canadian triathlete trying to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
• Meyrick Jones Racing – the blog of Meyrick Jones, an endurance sports enthusiast from West Vancouver with big dreams – to represent Canada at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver.
• Vancouver to Jasper 2008 – Raising Money for Cystic Fibrosis – the blog of James Zlosnik, a post-doctoral research microbiologist who studies cystic fibrosis (CF) pathogens and who also raises money for CF through cycling.
• Surfskibc’s Weblog – a blog/resource site for surfski enthusiasts. The site includes listings of events and commentary on the events from race participants and stories of local paddling.
• Kajak Kanu Drachenboot – the blog of Graham, a surfski’er from Vancouver.
• British Columbia Magazine Blog – visit this blog weekly for fresh stories, B.C. facts, travel tips, and insider knowledge from the editors of British Columbia Magazine.

A number of new training blogs have been added to the site within the past few days…

• Team Polar British Columbia – Polar has just this year started sponsoring community athletes across Canada including nine here in BC. This is the overall team blog, with contribution from each athlete.
• Kajak Kanu Drachenboot – the blog of Graham, a surfski’er from Vancouver.
• Jesse McClinton: A Marathon Story – a runner from Vancouver trying to get back into Marathon shape.
• Vancouver to Jasper 2008 – Raising Money for Cystic Fibrosis – the blog of James Zlosnik, a post-doctoral research microbiologist who studies cystic fibrosis (CF) pathogens and who also raises money for CF through cycling.
• Surfskibc’s Weblog – a blog/resource site for surfski enthusiasts. The site includes listings of events and commentary on the events from race participants and stories of local paddling.
• Just. Running. The Road to New York… – the blog of Campbell Willis, an ‘average’ Kiwi now living in Vancouver. Campbell is training for this year’s Knee Knacker and New York Marathon.

We would like to welcome our newest blogger Average Adventure Addict , an athlete from Victoria just getting into adventure racing and other athletic pursuits. Be sure to check out her new blog!

Two new training blogs have been added to the Training Blogs page. Be sure to check them out and offer your support as they work towards their respective goals.

• The Crinson Chronicles – the blog of Scott Crinson, an endurance athlete from Victoria who is specializing in marathon-distance running and who hopes to one day complete an Ironman-distance triathlon.
• RUNGREEN – an ultrarunner from Maple Ridge.