I went for my first training run for the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon this morning! Seven glorious kilometers in torrential downpour. It was divine! It was coming down so hard, I hard to stop at a 7-Eleven on the Danforth to get a bag to put over my iphone so it didn’t go ...
I really just couldn’t help myself. The giveaway for the Eat Clean Diet Cookbook is done. Four recipes have been shared. And yet there remained one more. One more recipe that I just ...
It has been an incredible week to delve back into training after last Sunday's Around the Bay 30K. The weather has been unseasonably warm (I wore a t-shirt and short for a run to work at 6 a.m. yesterday, and today is supposed to be in the mid- to high 20s), which has ...
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month already. Here is the final installment of the Eat Clean Diet Cookbook giveaway. If you missed the first three installments, you should really check out the tofu and curry dip, the
It's a tall order, that title, but I swear it's true! One word proves this claim: Chocolate. Yup, in chili. This is the second installment in the Eat Clean Diet Cookbook Giveaway, and this is handsdown my favourite and most frequently made recipe from this book. To quickly re-cap the give away: leave a comment ...
First off, an administrative note: you may have noticed a few changes at The Fartlek Runner over the weekend. In between runs I moved the blog from wordpress.com to being self-hosted, which included giving the blog a new look at feel. I’m still working out a number of bugs (images, links, etc., that didn’t come ...
Training for the marathon continues and we’ve entered hill territory — four repeats last night and five next Wednesday. In addition, I continue to chug away at the 22 minutes in 10lbs challenge I set for myself a few weeks ago (five pounds down, five to go). But to get on with the ...
February is drawing to a close and with it, many of us are approaching or entering the next phase of our training for our spring races. My marathon is at the end of May and I’m finishing up week five of 18 of my training schedule. After next Wednesday, I’ll be moving from the base ...
One of my favourite dishes to cook at this time of year is red lentil dahl — a warming, nutrient-packed dish that is perfect after a run. Dahl is a flavour-packed dish found in Nepali, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi cuisine. It’s made from various types ...
(Wherein Matt approaches his food as a form of training to help improve his running.) The inspiration: Apparently, it’s common knowledge in the running community that loosing one pound can increase a runner’s speed by about two seconds a mile (in Canadianese, that would work out to be roughly 3.2 seconds per kilometer). That can be huge ...
Hi there, I'm Matt. I started running after a fairly major lifestyle overhaul (re: eating healthy and getting active). I'm currently training for the 2010 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. My larger running goal is to qualify for the Boston Marathon before the next age category (which gives me nine years). For more info, check out my "about" page.
