Crunch Time for Rio 2016

When Athletics Canada released the Rio 2016 Olympics qualifying criteria for the marathon back in the Spring of 2015 I remember being really excited. The standard was 2:12:50, 1minute21seconds slower than the time needed to qualify for the team back in 2012. When I initially looked at the criteria I didn’t even look at the timeline for qualifying. It reads…

Creating the T-Shirt Design for the World’s Largest 10K

Every year on July 4, nearly 60,000 people toe the starting line of the AJC Peachtree Road Race beside the Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, Georgia. Battling hot weather, humidity and sometimes rain, race participants make a 6.2-mile journey through the streets of Atlanta along the famous Peachtree Street for the privilege of saying they competed in the largest 10K…

An Interview with Rachel Seaman – Mizuno Olympian

Rachel Seaman born in Kapuskasing, Ontario is a Canadian race walker. She began race walking at age 14 but didn’t decided to focus on the event until the age of 18. A year later she won the 2005 Pan American Race Walking Cup Junior championship. Her first experience internationally at the senior level was the 2006 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, which is where she met future husband,…

Understanding Muscle Imbalances

By: Mark Crabtree The goal of any exercise program is to elicit a change. Usually, the underlying reason for diving into fitness is to move better, feel better or look better. Maybe your goal is to run your personal best race time, or progress from a 5K to a half marathon. Maybe you want to completely change the way you…