Women Run Canada
203 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWomen Run Canada is a podcast that celebrates Canadian women runners from all walks of life and the community we create within this fantastic sport. Hosted by Kirsten Parker, this show is the perfect partner to get you inspired, laughing and best of all, gets you out running this beautiful country we call home.
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EP 194. The Road to the Half Ironman with Emelyn Jade, Episode 3
March 23, 2024 09:33 - 22 minutes - 17.8 MBWe have reached the third installment of our chat with Emelyn Jade and we find her ten weeks out from her race. Things are heating up: she's swimming three days a week, getting in some brick sessions and long runs, and learning how to fuel herself properly through all of it to have successful outcomes. We also discuss what she's eating. Are eggs a good pairing with honey and/or peanut butter? What exactly makes the perfect banana? The journey continues... EPISODE SPONSOR: Spring Run-Of...
EP 193. Gaby Estrada and Fast & Female
March 16, 2024 09:13 - 36 minutes - 28.8 MBIf you don't already know Gaby Estrada, get ready to meet your new favourite boss. Gaby and I last spoke a year and a half ago when she had just officially taken on her new role as Executive Director of one of my favourite not-for-profit organizations, Fast & Female. Gaby and I caught up on what it's been like taking on this challenging role and all of the work she and her team have been busy doing to ensure that the charity is moving in the best direction possible. We also discussed Fast & ...
EP 192. LIVE from TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon: Women in the Marathon
March 09, 2024 10:12 - 51 minutes - 39.4 MBIn the third installment of recordings from the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon stage: Women in the Marathon. This event was the second live discussion held by Canada Running Series to examine women's challenges in getting to the start line, this time focusing on the marathon. Moderated by Michelle Kay with Sasha Gollish and Melanie Murzeau, the panel was a beautiful cross-section of female runners: Gaby Alcala, Cory Freedman, Allison Hill, Nattalyee Randall and Lauren Roberts. These amazing...
EP 191. Lauren Mantha
March 02, 2024 10:24 - 42 minutes - 31.7 MBLauren Mantha is deep in the midst of figuring out her path in life and trying a bunch of new things along the way. This is how running came to her: she likes to be active and fit and is open to new experiences. You will notice we talk a lot more about her career than usual on the show: she is shifting gears from working as a Registered Nurse to completing a Graduate Certificate in Public Relations. This seemed to be the common thread in her story: whatever Lauren does, she wants to feel pas...
EP 190. Ailsa MacDonald
February 24, 2024 09:55 - 51 minutes - 34.3 MBAilsa MacDonald has already had an incredible athletic career, but in so many ways, she's just getting started. As someone who has been sporty since birth, Ailsa has done it all: cycling, road running, triathlon, Ironman, and now she focuses her talents on ultra distances and trail running. She has had such a myriad of accomplishments it was impossible to talk about all of them. But what makes Ailsa such a truly exceptional athlete? Her resilience, her mental strength and her ability to thr...
EP 189. Runners We Love with Melanie Murzeau
February 17, 2024 10:24 - 33 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week was Valentine's Day, so to keep it on brand, I asked my SOLE mate, founder of Black Runners of the GTA & the Scarborough 5K Melanie Murzeau to spend some quality time with me. Melanie and I both came up with a list of four runners that we love and came back together to discuss our picks and why and see if we had any of the same answers. This would also not be an episode of the pod without me veering dangerously off-topic, so we also talk a fair bit about books we love. SPOILE...
EP 188. Megan Kuikman
February 10, 2024 10:06 - 35 minutes - 29 MBThis episode is for all of my runner friends who love the science behind the sport as much as I do. Megan Kuikman is a Registered Dietician, sports nutrition specialist and is currently completing her PhD at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. Megan is passionate about addressing the gender gaps in sports nutrition information, so she is diving deep into female-driven studies. Megan talks about some of her most recent research and what the next steps on what she's learned could be....
EP 187. LIVE from TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon: The Emergence of New Run Crews
February 03, 2024 10:09 - 38 minutes - 27.9 MBIn the second in our series of recordings from the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, we join Miguel Pink and Quinton Jacobs on the Emergence of New Run Crews. Migz founded Me vs Me, a run crew he started during the pandemic to help himself and others improve their mental and physical health. Running helped him transform himself and at the same time, create a community space where people connect and do great things together. Q is a community organizer and connector who is passionate about t...
EP 186. Katie Rylance
January 27, 2024 10:18 - 38 minutes - 30.5 MBKatie Rylance is a teacher and a mother of four. During COVID, she felt deeply dissatisfied with her health and physical fitness, so she decided to take the first steps. She bought herself a treadmill and started walking and then running. She learned to run; and she learned to treat her body well with proper fueling. In time, she ran her first 5K, which led to more races, which led her to the start line of last year's Chicago Marathon. Katie and I talked about how she came to a place where s...
EP 185. Remembering Helly Visser
January 20, 2024 10:30 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBAt the end of November 2023, we lost a Canadian women's Masters icon, Helly Visser. At 89 years old, she left us still holding twelve Canadian Masters records and three world masters records. She was inducted into the Canadian Masters Hall of Fame in 2010 and twice honoured as Alberta's Masters Athlete of the Year. Helly was a mainstay of the Calgary running community. She was always there encouraging people to find joy in sport and even helped with the campaign to build a field house in ...
EP 184. LIVE from the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon: Hill Run Club
January 13, 2024 10:29 - 55 minutes - 40.4 MBRunning in January is hard. Finding inspiration in January is hard. So this one is for all of you on the struggle bus because this is going to light your fire. Recorded live at the 2023 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, this session was hosted by the incredible Allison Hill and the beautiful women of Hill Run Club. Allison shares the core of what HRC is all about; Class of 2023 Coach Nadia Clarke Cordick talks about her ongoing research into the experience of black women in fitness and sport....
EP 183. Lynsey Romano
January 06, 2024 10:06 - 36 minutes - 28.1 MBDo you want to talk about new goals for the new year? Me too! Founder and Head Coach of Skyline Run Coaching Lynsey Romano and I dig deep into setting ourselves up for success in 2024. We start with the basics of why goal setting is so important, then talk about what goals can do for us as runners and people. We also talk about the feelings that come with working hard towards a goal and dealing with the outcomes of achieving them or maybe missing the mark. So much good stuff in here! ...
The Road to the Half Ironman with Emelyn Jade: EP 2
December 30, 2023 10:31 - 19 minutes - 15.5 MBWelcome back to installment two of this series! Emelyn Jade has been hard at work training, and we talk all about the challenges of getting motivated in the off season, working through the weather, and dragging ourselves out of bed on hard days. We also go off on a tangent about pineapple, and I look forward to hearing your feedback after you listen... the divide is real. Emelyn also shares what happens when you put your name in for race lotteries that you never expect to get into... Spoiler...
EP 182. Ana Fray
December 16, 2023 10:27 - 53 minutes - 39.8 MBHave you ever imagined yourself coming up to the finish chute of a race, seeing the tape held out in front of you, running up and breaking it? Ana Fray did. And then she went out and made it happen. Ana is a masters elite marathoner who ran their 24th marathon at the 2023 P’tit Train du Nord in Quebec and broke that beautiful tape as the first female. Ana and I talk about how the lack of ellipticals started her on the course to running, some of the races that helped her gain strength and c...
EP 181. Gaby Alcala
December 09, 2023 10:17 - 50 minutes - 37.2 MBGaby Alcala was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and came to live in the United States when she was just 19 years old. And she had a six-month-old baby. And she didn’t speak English. If this all sounds ridiculously brave to you, buckle up. Gaby is an ultra runner and a Running with Purpose Advocate for Rising Hearts: an indigenous-led grassroots organization that works to elevate indigenous voices and support intersectional collaborative efforts across all forms of movement. Gaby is passionate about...
EP 180. Relisten with Gabriela DeBues Stafford and Lucia Stafford
December 02, 2023 09:46 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBWe are keeping the fourth-anniversary party going a wee bit longer so that we can relisten to one of the most downloaded and one of my favourite episodes to date. This episode was originally recorded in 2020 during lockdown when Gabriela DeBues Stafford and her younger sister Lucia Stafford were quaratined with their family in Ontario. I was so lucky to catch them together at the same time and reflect on life and training in and out of lockdown. These multi-record-holding sisters have bee...
EP 179. Happy Fourth Anniversary!
November 25, 2023 10:33 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBI let the fourth anniversary of the show slip by unnoticed in October, but it's time to get up and celebrate! In this episode, I look back at just a handful of this year's amazing guests and think about what it has meant to make change in the running industry in 2023. Many things are happening, and it's a great time for us to take a beat and celebrate the fantastic people standing up and making this community a more inclusive, beautiful place for us to share. Featuring clips from Jake Fede...
The Road to the Half Ironman with Emelyn Jade: EP 1
November 11, 2023 10:20 - 20 minutes - 16.5 MBEPISODE ONE: "I'm so delulu" When I saw that friend of the show, Emelyn Jade, was planning to take on her first Half Ironman in Victoria in May 2024, I couldn’t think of anything more fun than following her journey to the start line. In the first episode of this series, Emelyn and I chat about her why, first emotions, and how the first couple of weeks of training are going. Follow Emelyn's training vlog on Instagram @emelynjade Theme song: Joseph McDade Sponsored by Canada Runn...
EP 178. Nadia Clarke Cordick
November 04, 2023 07:59 - 51 minutes - 31.2 MBNadia Clarke Cordick is a powerhouse: she is a fitness, nutritional and wellness coach through her company Repetitions Fitness, but also an educator who is committed to continuing her own studies as well. I met Nadia at the Speaker Series of the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, where she talked about her work with Hill Run Club's Class of 2023. Nadia is constantly learning more about the things she is passionate about and then finds ways to take the knowledge and turn it outward to serve her...
EP 177. Nattalyee Randall
October 28, 2023 08:52 - 49 minutes - 30.6 MBNattalyee Randall started running (as many of us do) in an effort to lose weight. She did just that, but what she gained was a love for the sport. And more than that, she found a way to use running as activism: her movements became protests. Nattalyee who is a talented singer, actor, director and writer, created the 50 Mile Protest Run for Justice. The run, and the documentary she made to share it, highlights 50 black and brown lives that have been lost to police brutality. Nattalyee and I t...
EP 176. Running Partnerships LIVE from TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon
October 21, 2023 08:34 - 42 minutes - 32 MBWhat do running partnerships look like, and how can they make us better runners? We dug deep into these questions live from the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon Expo. Olympian Dayna Pidhoresky and her coach and husband Josh Seifarth discussed mixing business with home life and how they make it work. Twin sisters April and Melanie Boultbee talk about living and running together and how that choice has allowed them to support each other in so many ways. Single mom Melanie Murzeau talks about th...
EP 175. Stacey Munro
October 07, 2023 09:35 - 33 minutes - 19.7 MBIn this week's episode, we are talking about mental health and running with journalist Stacey Munro. Trigger warning: this episode deals with the pandemic and the feelings and emotions of the lockdown, and the coping mechanisms it took all of us to get through it. As a journalist with no choice but to confront the news of every day but to meet it head-on, Stacey used running as her main outlet and escape. We discuss the difference between being alone and making the choice to carve out solita...
EP 174. Emily Durgin
September 30, 2023 08:46 - 43 minutes - 26.7 MBFlagstaff, AZ, resident Emily Durgin is heading to the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon to join the elite field on Sunday, October 15, 2023! Emily has had her ups and downs with running: from a thrilling school debut to some challenges and then successes in college, to amazing races that put her in the spotlight as a professional athlete, to injuries and more. But here's the lesson: throughout all of it, Emily maintains a root belief in herself and her ability. She says it herself – the perso...
EP 173. Regan Yee
September 23, 2023 08:46 - 40 minutes - 24.1 MBIt’s another chat with my favourite coconut bun loving steeplechaser, Regan Yee! Since we last talked, she’s earned two National titles in the 3000m Steeplechase, taken two trips to Worlds, a trip to NACAC, and even run a Diamond League in Eugene. Oh, did I forget to mention she went to the Olympics? Silly me. Now based in Flagstaff, Arizona and running with Under Armour’s elite training team Mission Run Dark Sky Distance, Regan is getting more comfortable declaring big goals out loud and ha...
EP 172. The Return of Fall Race Reflections
September 16, 2023 08:45 - 9 minutes - 6.62 MBI have been thinking a lot lately about the message I shared with all of you last year as I was in peak of training for the Chicago Marathon. This year, I have no fall races in the books, and I am kinda full of FOMO. I thought I would share with you how things feel for me right now and how the feelings I had this time last year are strangely still true. So enjoy the Ghost of Races Past and the Ghost of Races Future in this mini-episode. Happy running!
EP 171. Julie-Anne Staehli
September 09, 2023 08:56 - 29 minutes - 18.3 MBJulie-Anne Staehli has had a heck of a year: World Cross Country Championships in Australia, top three at Nationals in the 5000, and just recently returned from World Championships in Budapest. Now she’s also been named to her eighth national team and will run the 5K at the World Road Racing Championships in Latvia. While I invited Julie-Anne to the show to talk about Budapest, our conversation veered more retrospectively. Julie-Anne spoke about how she is being thoughtful and deliberate in...
EP 170. 42Qs with Robyn Mildren
September 02, 2023 08:19 - 55 minutes - 32.1 MBWhen I saw that the fantastic Robyn Mildren had won the Squamish 50K, I immediately wanted to have her back on the show. But I also know how swamped she is with work and training. So I asked her if she would do a half-hour, rapid-fire episode and she graciously offered to squish it into her day. But I should have known better: Robyn is extremely smart and thoughtful, and our rapid fire was not so rapid. We couldn’t stop ourselves from digging into all of the good stuff. Robyn's continuing j...
EP 169. Michelle & Kim Krezonoski
August 26, 2023 08:44 - 54 minutes - 35.7 MBJoin me for the most fun you are going to have all day: it’s Kim and Michelle Krezonoski! These Thunder Bay, Ontario-born twins have been running together since they attended Midwestern State University in Texas. In 2022, they took on their first marathon (the California International Marathon) and became the year’s 11th and 12th fastest Canadian women. These two are full of wisdom (how good is "a bad day is just a lesson to grow from"?!?), fun and confidence, all of which will definitely r...
EP 168. Lauren Andrews
August 19, 2023 09:35 - 59 minutes - 29.5 MBLauren Andrews is the kind of runner who has always felt a passion for the sport deep in her soul. She’s pushed and driven and explored to find where her limits might be as a runner and just kept going. When she and her husband decided that they wanted to try to start a family, she had no idea how much she was going to need the mental and physical strength that she had learned in her years so far. Lauren shared her story of returning from severe pelvic trauma due to childbirth and what it ha...
EP 167. Keri Wong
July 29, 2023 09:58 - 45 minutes - 10.7 MBKeri Wong is a dedicated member of her run community in Toronto, particularly with her home crew Kardia. While this girl always looks like she’s having a good time (that’s because she is), she also has a lot of big goals in mind for her running. Amongst her accomplishments, she can list completing five marathons and two triathlons with more for both on the horizon. As part of the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon panel discussion about barriers for women in the marathon, Keri shared some thou...
EP 166. Women in the Marathon with Sasha Gollish
July 22, 2023 09:22 - 45 minutes - 23.3 MBLast week, the Toronto Waterfront Marathon held a run and panel discussion to talk about the fact that last year only 28% of their marathon registrants were women. These conversations, along with some survey data they had collected ahead of the event were the beginning of a fire lit in panellist Sasha Gollish: elite runner and community superhero. I chatted with Sasha about the panel discussion, the research she is continuing to do to look at races around the world, and how we collect more ...
EP 165. Denoja Uthayakumar
July 15, 2023 09:47 - 38 minutes - 21.6 MBDenoja Uthayakumar has had her share of challenges in life, but she made the choice never to let them keep her down. After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age five, she has continued to deal with the physical and mental health concerns related to it as an adult. But Denoja has taken those challenges and made sunshine with them. She has an indelible presence in the running community: in person in Toronto and Scarborough, on Instagram and as an ambassador for Brooks Running. Despite th...
EP 164. Maggie Dunlop
July 08, 2023 09:29 - 44 minutes - 24.2 MBMaggie Dunlop came to the marathon a bit later in life, but she is making up for lost time with a major drive to succeed. Maggie has worked as an Athletic Therapist with various sports disciplines and then added Doctor of Chiropractic to her tool belt. She now works with athletes and patients in Burlington, ON. Maggie has had a quick succession of great races, thanks in part to her training with coach and longtime friend Leanne Klassen, including BQing in her first marathon and making the po...
EP 163. Tara Lee
July 01, 2023 09:19 - 38 minutes - 19.1 MBIf you are a listener who lives in Toronto and love running and beer, you may already know my guest. Chef Tara Lee and her brewmaster husband, Dave, own Eastbound Brewing Company: a brewer and farm-to-table kitchen in Leslieville. She is also a half, full and ultra-marathon runner, which I'm still unsure how she finds time for! Tara and I chat about run crews: the Eastbound Brewery Run Crew and The Food Runners, which Tara has run with since 2015. We discuss peer pressure in running and how...
EP 162. Sarah Carroll & Rachel Munday
June 24, 2023 09:30 - 45 minutes - 22.6 MBLast week, I was working to help put on the Manitoba Marathon. As the week went, I put a few videos on social to give you a bit of a peek behind the curtain. I wanted to extend that with a bit of a week's recap with our staff team: Executive Director Rachel Munday and Programs Manager Sarah Carroll. I hope you get a little bit of an understanding of what goes into race week, and I hope that what you take away is how passionate people who put on races are. We genuinely love the sport, and we...
EP 161. Anna Lewis
June 10, 2023 09:27 - 34 minutes - 17.6 MBI want you to imagine a race so steeped in history in time it is the oldest road race in North America. A race so epic it runs at the tail end of the winter and challenges runners to 30 kilometres of roads, hills and water. A race so supported by its community that nothing stops them from celebrating the runners and the traditions of its beautiful city every year. Who could possibly manage all of that time, tradition and epicness? It’s the incredible Anna Lewis, race director for Hamilton’s...
EP 160. Jenny Tough
May 27, 2023 09:13 - 51 minutes - 26.2 MBJenny Tough is the ultimate adventurer. Originally from Calgary, but now living in the UK, Jenny is a writer, filmmaker, and ultra bike racer. Oh, did I forget to mention that in 2021 she became the first person to run unsupported across mountain ranges on six continents? No biggie. Jenny is the author of the amazing book SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life as well as the editor of Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of grit, courage and determination. She is humble...
EP 159. 76 Qs with Melanie Murzeau
May 20, 2023 09:38 - 26 minutes - 13.5 MBShake and Bake! It's 76 questions with my sole mate, Melanie Murzeau. Founder of Black Runners of the GTA and creator of the Scarborough 5K, Melanie and I get to what's important: how early does one human need to get up before a race to feel prepared? How much can she love water? Why is it that the grosser comfort food looks, the more delicious it becomes? All this and more on this week's show... enjoy. Follow Melanie on Instagram @blackrunnersofthegta and @thescarborough5K photo credit...
EP 158. Natasha Wodak
May 13, 2023 09:54 - 39 minutes - 19.1 MBIt's always a fantastic day when I get to catch up with the incredible Natasha Wodak. It’s been a hot minute since we last spoke, so we had a lot to talk about: her Olympic experience running with Malindi Elmore, the Boston Marathon, and oh just a couple more Canadian national championships under her belt. No big deal. Natasha also now trains with Trent Stellingwerff, and she talks about what it’s been like to make that transition. We also chatted about what her race season might look like ...
EP 157. Kate Ayers
May 06, 2023 09:20 - 47 minutes - 24.8 MBKate Ayers originally had a different sport in mind when she started at the University of Guelph, but the running community brought her in, and she has never looked back. Kate has dabbled in many distances on the track, but her heart belongs to cross country. After a tough string of injuries, she’s now training on the west coast with the awesome Hillary Stellingwerff and has had a fiery start to 2023. She recently travelled to Australia to run at the World Cross Country Championship and is ...
EP 156. Emelyn Jade
April 29, 2023 09:48 - 31 minutes - 15.9 MBEmelyn Jade is a runner living in British Columbia who I instantly knew I wanted to get to know better. After her fiancé encouraged her to jump on the running train in 2019, she ran her first half marathon and hasn’t looked back. Emelyn agreed to be my test subject to see if I could stay on track to get through 76 rapid-fire questions... But is it 76 questions if I accidentally asked a few twice differently? You be the judge. It was 76 questions about running, life, PRPs, chips, and many re...
EP 155. Natalia Allen
April 22, 2023 09:46 - 45 minutes - 24.3 MBNatalia Allen may have just officially announced her retirement from professional sport, but this brilliant lady has been planning her steps forward for much longer. After going all in and quitting her full-time job to put everything she had into running, Natalia made her dreams come true by lining up in the 1500 at the Tokyo Olympics. After that, she took a trip to Eugene for Worlds and a trip down under to run at the World Cross-Country Championships. We also chat a bit about her wedding ...
EP 154. Rach McBride
April 15, 2023 09:22 - 54 minutes - 27.4 MBThere is a reason that they call Rach McBride the most interesting person in triathlon. Because they just are. Rach is a five-time 70.3 Ironman champion and a highly accomplished runner, cyclist and gravel racer. Rach is one of a very small number of nonbinary elite professional athletes, and we talk a bit about the weight that comes with that. I loved learning about Rach’s early starts in sport, their parents, their racing style and what makes them proud. Find Rach on Instagram @rache...
EP 153. Jon Bird
April 01, 2023 08:56 - 37 minutes - 21.3 MBInterim Executive Director for Run Calgary, Jon Bird and I are digging into making running more inclusive for families. Jon comes from the world of elite sports: as a former professional triathlete, he moved into coaching and community sports events and joined the Run Calgary family in 2017. Jon talks about his fantastic team and the new programs they are bringing to the 2023 Servus Calgary Marathon, including a day camp for kids to participate in while their moms and dads race! To regis...
EP 152. Lyndsay Tessier
March 25, 2023 09:22 - 46 minutes - 23.3 MBCome hang out with me and everyone’s favourite third-grade teacher Lyndsay Tessier. I haven’t had the chance to chat with this Team Canada athlete since the pandemic, so we get caught up on what life was like remote teaching and her choice to focus on her students over running. We talk about how she worked through plantar fasciitis and the lesson learned with a nagging injury that only patience will heal. Lyndsay has had the chance to get back to racing for the joy of competition again, a...
EP 151. Krista DuChene
March 18, 2023 09:58 - 49 minutes - 25.2 MBJoin me for the latest Krista DuChene Fan Club meeting! Canada's one and only Marathon Mom recently ran the Tokyo Marathon checking the last box for her Abbott World Majors and officially hanging up her “elite” bib. Krista dives deep into all things Tokyo: from travel experience to race start and finish and the miles in between. She also reflects on her previous five star races and how her more than 20 years of marathon experience led her to this day. Krista may be retiring from professiona...
EP 150. Beth McCharles
March 11, 2023 10:05 - 45 minutes - 22.3 MBIt's a mini deep dive with sports psychologist and high performance and leadership specialist Dr. Beth McCharles. When you visit the home page of Beth’s website, you will see the words “be kind, be bold, be great”: which tells you a lot of what you need to know about her work. Beth works with high-level athletes, coaches, artists and a variety of professionals helping them master their mental game. We scratch the surface of some of her philosophies for maximizing your time and efforts as a ...
EP 149. Sage Watson
March 04, 2023 10:42 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBThe unbreakable Sage Watson is back! I have always known that Sage is a tough-as-nails performer who always gets the job done on the track. But in the last few years, she has experienced a work and personal life overshadowed by an unexplained injury. Sage has worked hard to find her way through this challenge and even turned it into an opportunity for personal transformation and growth. Sage is extremely open in discussing the mental, physical and spiritual journey that has brought her to t...
EP 148. Anne Chang
February 25, 2023 10:24 - 52 minutes - 27.5 MBAnne Chang may appear like everyone else, but don’t let her modesty fool you. This mother of four is a determined, goal-oriented runner and run coach. Anne uses running to reclaim a bit of who she is outside of being a mom and a full-time employee and to see what might be possible. She wants to see how far she can stretch and where she can go if she moves out of her comfort zone and lets things get hard. Anne and I chat about the first leg of her journey to achieving the six stars of the Wo...
EP 147. Shannon Coates
February 11, 2023 10:38 - 34 minutes - 17.7 MBShannon Coates is a dedicated member of the Winnipeg running community. Her smile lights up any race event or run group she is at, and her relentlessly cheerful attitude will carry you through all the miles. But since the fall, Shannon has been on a different journey. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she has been undergoing chemotherapy and is a few days away from a double mastectomy. Shannon and I chat about what this experience has been like, how she is trying to continue to fit ...