Ep56 "Endurance Athlete" Joanna Ford on The Show

Fitness professional, endurance athlete and mountain enthusiast Joanna Ford shares her experience in surviving as a fitness instructor during the pandemic. Get to know her mountaineering journey and her future dreams when it comes to her dream marathons and other events.

- At First she was not a fan of Calgary but loved it through time because its easier to get to the mountains.The sport she first loved was wrestling and transitioned to trail runningShe is also a part of the Calgary Roadrunner board and often meetup at Tuesday morning.

     Her favorite local races have probably be iron legs is definitely a favorite. I've run that one, three or four time. It's really awesome. 

If you haven't tried it and there's different distances spend 20 K all the way up to a hundred. So it's very accessible to lots of different runners.

Check out all the links discussed in this episode as well as Joanna's socials

https://www.meetup.com/CalgaryTrailRunners/

Calgary Road running.

https://www.calgaryroadrunners.com/

https://www.runguides.com/calgary/runs

Livingston Traverse:
https://jfordwelsh.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/the-livingstone-range-traverse/

FKT;
https://fastestknowntime.com/

Great trail divide:
https://greatdividetrail.com/discover-the-gdt/

Hardrock100
https://hardrock100.com/

ironlegs
https://www.ironlegs.ca/

si‪nister7
https://www.sinistersports.ca/sinister7/

Joanna's Instagram
Instagram: @jford.welsh
Blog: https://jfordwelsh.wordpress.com/