Diabetic to Dietetics

It was early, not yet even 6:30. The small, three-by-three, blue port-a-potty was nearly pitch black on the inside. Bib #6764 could see a flash of light seeping through the…

Oh man, if my legs could race as fast as my mind has been racing today, I’ll be golden on Sunday! Pretty much, from the second I woke up, my…

Thank heavens! For the first time I finally felt some excitement for the marathon yesterday! Instead of those damn demons that have been waging a hellish war in my belly…

Okay seriously, this marathon cannot come soon enough. I had quite the traumatic morning this morning that had me all curled up on the bathroom floor (good thing I just…

Okay, I am officially freaking out. My stomach is in knots, my throat is churning, my self-doubt is in overdrive. And I know, I know, I had this thing called…

I get a lot of non-runners asking me why I love running so much? If you’re a runner, you know the kind of people I’m talking about, the ones who…

Four months ago when I walked into the Running Room and was greeted by warm faces that I hadn’t seen in awhile, I walked in there with a plan. We…

For a day that was so crummy yesterday, it was sure golden today. First, I found a smile-inducing note from Mario attached to a couple of surprise chocolate wafer cookies…

Well now, that was the fastest 23 km I’ve ever run, so fast I made it back to the store in 1.5 hours, so fast I made it back BEFORE…

Maybe running 10 km last night wasn’t the smartest thing I could do. Not only did I just come off five and a half 800 metre speed intervals, which in…

HELP! I’ve wounded myself and it won’t heal. Three and a half weeks ago I was out running the Vancouver Seawall and at about 10 or 11 km into the…

So it turns out that I am not the only diabetic to have found myself in a situation, like I did on Sunday, where I had no poker to draw…