Toronto Running Chiro

This was an exciting year for me on the career and running front.  I hope everyone is taking some time to reflect on their year.

Here is mine:

Running Achievements:

• Ran my first marathon!!!
• Joined a running team (for the first time in 5 years) Stevenson Performance Running  www.runwithspr.com.  I have absolutely loved it and you can see below it has been working!
• Ran in the elite category in a variety of races
• Ran 5 personal best times!!!
  • Full- 2:56.49 (Ottawa), Half- 1:19.48 (STWM), 10k- 35:56.1 (Toronto Yonge St), 5k- 17:38.1 (Women’s Run) then two weeks later 17:08.1 (B&O)

Career Achievements:

• Now working at two chiropractic jobs in the city (Toronto)
  • The Runner’s Academy www.therunnersacademy.com
  • Totum Life Science www.totum.ca
• Landed my dream job working with all different levels of runners at The Runner’s Academy.  Helping people to keep running and showing them how to run better!
• Selected to be a volunteer chiropractor at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am games in summer 2015 http://www.toronto2015.org/volunteer (Join me!!)

Other exciting endeavors:

• I did two running photo shoots
  • one with Iden Ford http://www.idenfordphotography.com/
  • one with Canadian Running Magazine http://runningmagazine.ca/
• Hope to do more of this in the future
• Started to be involved with a documentary on early onset alzheimer’s called ‘Much Too Young’ with Chris Wynn

Looking ahead to 2015:

• Running The Boston Marathon
• Running the Cabot Trail Relay with SPR in hopes of winning and breaking the all female record
• Fundraising for the Boston Marathon in honour of my dad for the research department at the Alzheimer’s Society https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/TeamFundraisingPage.aspx?teamID=583381&langPref=en-CA&Referrer=%26Referrer%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.memorymakersforalzheimers.ca%252f
• Taking part in a documentary about early onset alzheimer’s from the perspective of the children called Much Too Young with Chris Wynn https://www.facebook.com/pages/Much-Too-Young/696273550442357

Goals for 2015:

• Strength training- at least 1x/wk
• Run a PB in the marathon
• Run with as many different Toronto run crews as possible
• Sleep more- 7-9 hrs/night
• Continue to grow my chiropractic practice and be involved in the Toronto running scene
• Blog more- at least 1x/mo
• Be more consistent with book keeping

*See my next post for some tips on goal setting!

Let’s do this!!!  2015 is going to be a GREAT year!!!

All the best to everyone!!!