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Younger me would be pretty proud 🫶🏼

18 years later. We’re still running.

A little walk down memory lane. I started running in 2008, in my grade 12 year and joined the local college cross-country team the following. Racing 5kms on dirt trail runs. This is when I completely fell in love with the community and sport. Then after a couple with the team I dipped into 10km road races, then half marathons. I completed my first, and only full road marathon, to this day, in 2013. During this all I started to discover the mountains. I got more into hiking, and backcountry camping. I continued to run in town and eventually dipped my toes into ultra running 5-6 years ago. Combining my love for the mountains with my love for running, and haven’t looked back.

Mother Runner | Alberta Mom | Red Deer | Trail Running | Ultra Runner | Toddler Mom | RDC | College Running

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alberta races are building ways into ultra running; every one of them makes the sport easier to step into. find your first step and take it. #albertatrailrunning #womenintrailrunning #womeninultrarunning

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Our pals at @foldingmountainultra are opening registration for year two October 23rd. Last year was the inaugural year and it sold out fast. Dont sleep on signing up for this beauty of a race put on by a group of stellar humans.

Grab your best skree boots and let er buck 🐎🐎🐎

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Legs & back on a Monday ⬇️

A. Snatch 4x3

B. Banded high box squat 5x3

C. Bulgarian split squats 4x5/side

D. Close grip pull down 4x6

E. Wide pull downs 3x10

F. Hammer curls 5x5/side

Unfortunately @sideofolive was not actually here today, but always good to include a foto

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ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT | @dalkin8r

Reesor Mountain Marathon 🥇CR
Folding Mountain Ultra 🥇CR
Elk Valley Ultra 🥈

It’s a privilege to have a brother who trusts me to provide him coaching to compete in this sport at a high level!

James shared these words: “ I love the simplicity of the coaching Joedy provides. It works with my busy life and gives me the physical confidence to consistently compete amongst the best ultra runners in Alberta. The A/A ethos is all about overcoming obstacles with a smile and Joedy’s coaching encapsulates that perfectly.”

I think it’s a biased review😅 but I’m honoured 🥹

Folding Mountain Ultra

Elk Valley Ultra

Folding Mountain Podium

Reesor Mountain Marathon Podium

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Hard is also what makes it SO great. If it’s not hard, you’re doing it wrong. People will say ‘You are so so strong, or how do you do it etc’. Yes takes physical strength but I am so insanely stubborn and feel as though I can push through a lot of mental battles. That’s taken years of running and racing to practice working at. I like to say I am more mentally strong than physically most of the time 😂 If I would’ve given up when my body wanted to that would have been half way through.

Oh and SMILEEE, I swear it helps 😃

Send this to someone you know who has a race coming up 🏃🏼‍♀️ Let me know if you enjoy this type of reel 🥺

Mother Runner | Alberta Mom | Trail Runner

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Alpenglow 100 Recap Part 2: The Training

(Sorry I’m so slow at this.. I’m busy okay) ⬇️

Signing up for Alpenglow on November 7th was the easy part… (although my bank account might disagree 😂).

Then the real work began.

From November until July 3rd, I stacked bricks. Through -20°C mornings and +20°C afternoons. Snow, mud, rain, and sunshine. Early mornings. Late evenings. Tired eyes. Tired legs. Week after week, the fitness slowly built.

It wasn’t easy. Training for 100km meant making sacrifices while balancing work, marriage, friends, family, and life. Sometimes I nailed the plan. Other times I didn’t.

Thankfully, my coach @ultrabirch and I share the same philosophy: running revolves around my life not the other way around.

Some days I loved training. Other days I questioned why I signed up. More than once, I wanted to quit.

But I had made a promise to myself.

So I kept showing up.

1,733 kilometres later…

Every run, every hill, every early alarm, every tough day had stacked together and brought me to the ultimate test:

100 kilometres. All at once.

Also, a massive shoutout to the ultimate training partner… my dog Ursa. She was a huge motivation each day to get out for a run and I think she probably ran about 1400 of the 1700km with me 🥲

Part 3: Race Weekend .. coming up next 🏔️

#Alpenglow100 #RaceRecap #TheTraining #Ultra #UltraRunning

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fmu & other june bits

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June was full of running around… figuratively and literally.

From photographing the inaugural @foldingmountainultra , to Tuesday nights with the @hintonrunclub . Every week I’m reminded how lucky we are to have these trails and this community.

Also headed to Edmonton to crew one of my best friends at a track race… and somehow ended up crewing 6 people total... but now I have more weird run friends, so that’s cool.

Fit in a couple of corporate events to shoot, maybe a podcast, plus life in general and it’s safe to say there wasn’t much rest this month. Looking back though, I wouldn’t change a thing.

But I am hoping for a little July downtime and a few more adventures of my own in the mountains next month. 🤘🏼⛰️

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Life has a way of testing us when we least expect it, throwing hurdles across the path just as we find our stride. The road forward isn’t always easy, but it’s in those hard days that your strength is forged, not given. Dig deep, keep pushing, and trust that every step you take is carrying you toward the finish line. The reward isn’t just waiting on the other side, it’s already taking shape in who you’re becoming to get there.

#trailrunning #ultramarathon #pushyourself #mountains #mentalstrength

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In the spirit of lacing one up this weekend at the Tiger Peak 50K. Some black and white goodies from @foldingmountainultra.

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Helicopters, cowboy hats and a near-perfect weather window helped bring a new Alberta race to life 🙌

The first Folding Mountain Ultra kicked off on June 6 with nearly 300 runners, a start line beside a brewery and a course that sent racers deep into the terrain above Folding Mountain Landing near Hinton, Alta.

Race directors Sami Cherkaoui, Jaclyn Panylyk and Jason Griffiths said the inaugural event was the result of a long-held feeling that the area needed a race of its own. But like most first editions, there were unknowns–everything from the weather forecast to whether enough water would make it to the top of the mountain.

Read more in 🔗 in bio.

📸: @mikesugianto

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