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01/24/2025
🚨🎙 Podcast Drop!
Every runner has a unique journey to lacing up their shoes - Leo Vitelli certainly fits that bill. From living out of his car and suffering from severe mental health challenges to embracing life, adventure, fitness and running, leading him to successfully complete the 2024 Divide 200-mile race, the former professional gamer (we said he was unique!) shares the insights and learnings from his journey along the way. Host John Shep had so much fun, they are going to do a Part Two next week, all about Leo Vitelli coaching happy and healthy runners - stay tuned!
Listen here: https://athleticsontario.ca/road-trail-running/athletics-ontario-running-podcast/
01/23/2025
iRun Editor Ben Kaplan takes the new iteration of one of the most popular neutral training shoes that just dropped and running shoe stores can't keep them in stock. Why all the fuss? Read the review here: https://irun.ca/training/shoe-review-asics-gel-nimbus-27/
01/23/2025
It happens to one in five women who exercise and possibly every third woman you pass during a race. Meet the doctors at the Motor Functioning Measurement Lab studying pelvic health impact during exercise, and find out how you can get involved.
Read up to the minute health news here: https://tinyurl.com/4y9f5nc2
01/22/2025
Surround Yourself with People Who Lift You Higher
Thank You, Running Friends.
In the middle of January, running is hard. But we don't have to do this alone. Your crew, your bestie, your partner, will be there to support you. The relationship just needs to be nourished; no runners need to be out in the cold. Episode Ten of On Track with Micha, with more New Balance prizes up for grabs, is about building your team. Be sure to share with your running bestie(s).
Come Together, Right Now in the article found here: https://irun.ca/training/surround-yourself-with-people-who-lift-you-higher-why-runners-need-community/
01/20/2025
The wait is over. The NOVABLAST™ 5 shoe is here.It’s back and better than ever.
Introducing the new NOVABLAST™ 5 shoe—energetic cushioning and a trampoline-inspired outsole for bouncy, dynamic runs. Soft landings pair with a lively rebound for an energetic ride that keeps you coming back for more.
☑FF BLAST™MAX CushioningA burst of energy meets cushioned comfort in this new addition to the NOVABLAST™ 5 shoe.
☑Trampoline-Inspired OutsoleStack soft, energetic cushioning on top of a uniquely designed outsole and you get a bouncy,springy ride.
ASICS GEL-NIMBUS 27
☑Ultimate cloudlike cushioning due to FF BLAST™ PLUS ECO.
☑Increased shock absorption with PureGEL™ technology and more...
👀Watch out for the shoe review as iRun takes these for a spin.
Prices increase on January 21, for the 2025 Servus Calgary Marathon.
Now is the time to lock in your New Year’s resolution. Commit to that 2025 vision. Pursue your running goals. What are you waiting for?
Here’s what you can expect at the Servus Calgary Marathon in 2025:
☑6 Events over 2 days: 42.2 km, 21.2 km, 10 km, 5 km, Kids Race, Diaper Dash.
☑A Race Week that is full of new events, pop-ups, and two post-race parties.
☑Scenic course routes that explore downtown Calgary, weave along the Bow River, and showcase some of our favourite neighbourhoods.
☑Post-race festivities including live entertainment, beer garden, kids sport zone, stretch areas and more!
Take advantage of our lowest rates of the year and lock in your spring race goal!
🚨🎙 Ep. #155 Podcast Drop
Coaches change lives. Allison Forsyth of Generation Safe joins John Shep on the Athletics Ontario Running Podcast to discuss how coaches can positively influence change and build community in their athletes and teams, from the everyday to high performance. Her passion and charisma for coaching speak volumes as they dive into how to keep coaches and athletes safe in sport. Listen here: https://athleticsontario.ca/road-trail-running/athletics-ontario-running-podcast/
01/15/2025
🚨📣Episode 6 The Mental Game of Running 🏃🏻🏃♀️
Your mental toughness is a muscle. Find out ways to gain greater mental toughness to be the best version of yourself with Micha Powell.
Be sure to tag us with and tag iRun Magazine with your training post to enter into the giveaway courtesy of New Balance Canada. Note, giveaway deadline is Friday, January 17, 2025. Open to residents in Canada only, except in the province of Quebec, désolé.
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOgaPaTU5o
Don't forget, Join our Editor Ben Kaplan and Dry January when ordering Athletic Brewing beer online. Go to On AthleticBrewing.ca use IRUN10 on your next order and receive 10% off for the entire month of January.
**NOTE giveaway is not affiliated with META, Instagram or X. iRun will be in contact with winners and do not ask for financial information.
01/14/2025
🚨 📣 has news!
Canada's oldest marathon is adding a second day, due to sustained growth. A huge congratulations to Kirsten-Ellen Fleming and her team. We're looking forward to the weekend event! Read the full article here: https://tinyurl.com/yck2xnfh
You can join us live tomorrow at 11:30AM EST as we go into detail with Executive Director Kirsten Fleming on Instagram Live
01/13/2025
Motivation Monday!
We're almost mid-month in January and we're checking in with you all on your progress, however big or small.
Both Ben and Micha have a few tips on how to get outside and into the cold weather to run. Get out there and Run Your Way!
Don't forget to use the hashtag and tag on Instagram or on Facebook to enter the New Balance giveaway. Deadline for entry is Friday, January 17, 2025. Available to Canadian residents only, except our friends in Quebec, désolé.
This giveaway is not affiliated with META, Instagram, nor X.
Futhermore, don't forget to use on AthleticBrewing.ca, the code IRUN10 on your next online order and receive 10% off for the entire month of January.
01/11/2025
Non-alcoholic beer has come a long way and there is a special brew to match your palate.
What is your brew? Let us know in the comments.
Don't forget to use on AthleticBrewing.ca, the code IRUN10 on your next online order and receive 10% off for the entire month of January.
Our editor Ben is a fan!
01/10/2025
Find your way to enjoy a drink and there is no one way to do it.
Listen John Walker's way to work it into your day.
01/09/2025
🏋️♀️Join us Friday, January 10, at 12pm EST with Lauren Roberts, the Running Physio and coach of the 27 Athlete's Care locations.
Bring your questions about cold weather running, nutrition, stretching and January effort levels into the wind? Ask Lauren, like everyone else does. That destination on Instagram is . 🏋️♀️
01/09/2025
Who's with us on Dry January? Day 9 into the journey, we hear from John Walker, who mixed the original Athletic Brewing formulas and helped discover their nearly billion-dollar business. Give a listen the Svengali of Sober.
Attention iRun listeners! On your next online order, AthleticBrewing.ca, use the code IRUN10 on your next order and receive 10% off for the entire month of January 2025.
01/09/2025
Want to win great New Balance gear? New Balance has graciously provided prizing to go along with our podcast On Track with Micha. Micha Powell's daily iRun podcast are small weekly workouts that provide motivation and Olympic-style coaching. Listen to the first episode of 2025, then use the hashtag to share your progress and win New Balance gear. Listen to the podcast at the link, and get new stuff!
Podcast Episode · On Track With Micha · 01/03/2025 · 4m
01/09/2025
Brendan Carpenter started his running journey by losing 160lbs and ever since, has been an inspiration to runners of all bodies. Today, he is a run coach and run club lead, bringing that joy of running to others. He joins John Shep on this week's episode of the Athletics Ontario Running Podcast to spread the new year's enthusiasm and joy for running! Listen here: https://athleticsontario.ca/road-trail-running/athletics-ontario-running-podcast/
01/08/2025
📣PSA, iRun Magazine has changed to BeeHiiv for email campaigns. You can read the latest version here if you're not already a subscriber. Or become a subscriber at www.irun.ca
✅Get the latest on how to win New Balance gear,
❓Have your questions answered about Dry January from Athletic Brewing Company
🏋🏽♀️Get cross training with Lauren Roberts of The Running Physio
🤩As well as inspiration from Brendan Carpenter and the iRun Holiday edition.
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More than a million Canadians are runners, making it this country’s most popular recreational and fitness activity. Canadians run for exercise and we run to raise money for important causes. We run alone and in groups. And every year, hundreds of thousands of us participate in organized races, from fun runs to marathons, which are growing steadily.
Until now, Canadian runners haven’t had our own running magazine. But now, there’s iRun, providing a uniquely Canadian perspective on the activity and the sport. Published six times a year, iRun educates, informs and inspires Canadian runners. And, behind our parent company Sportstats, the largest race timing company in the world, iRun has become the ultimate running celebration, in mobile, print, social media and at irun.ca.
Marc Roy, CEO, Sportstats
iRun because there’s only 24-hours in a day.
A triathlete and 2x Ironman finisher, Roy purchased Sportstats with his wife Isabelle Fradette in 1995, and transformed the Ottawa-based company into the largest race-timing institution in the world. A father of three, and diehard Senators fan, Roy has recently expanded his company abroad, with new offices opened in San Diego, Utah, Thailand, and Singapore. He recently oversaw a major re-launch of the Sportstats website at sportstats.ca, which holds data of more than six million athletes. He vows to run another Ironman soon.
Mark Sutcliffe, Group Publisher
iRun for a better life
Few people in Canada have written, broadcast, or talked more about running and the runner’s experience than Mark Sutcliffe. It started when he turned his passion for running into a weekly column in the Ottawa Citizen, then he launched iRun and the weekly iRun radio show and podcast. He has since written three books about running: Why I Run, Canada’s Magnificent Marathon and Long Road to Boston. Mark has completed 25 marathons and raised more than $200,000 for charity through his running. In addition to iRun, Mark has also launched several other publications, including the Ottawa Business Journal and the Kitchissippi Times. Mark hosts a daily talk show on 1310 NEWS in Ottawa and also appears regularly on Rogers TV and CPAC.
More on Mark via whyirun.ca
Ray Zahab, Runner-in-Chief
iRun because I can’t stop!!! I love it too much
A former pack-a-day smoker, Ray transformed his life and became an ultra-distance runner, winning some of the world’s most challenging foot races. Beginning in November 2006, Ray and two other runners ran 7500km across the Sahara Desert in 111 days, averaging 70 kilometres per day without a single day’s rest. Since then, Ray has completed numerous running expeditions all over the world, including unsupported 650km run across Siberia’s Lake Baikal in winter, a 1200km run the length of the Atacama Desert and a crossing of Death Valley off-road. In 2008, he founded impossible2Possible (i2P), an organization that aims to inspire and educate youth through adventure learning, and inclusion and participation in expeditions. At no cost to schools or participating youth, i2P has taken Youth Ambassadors on expeditions to Amazon, Sahara, Bolivia and more.
In addition to his running adventures, Ray co-hosts iRun: The Running Show on The TSN 1200 radio. He also speaks around the world at events such as TED, IOC World Conference, Idea City, The Economist World in 2010 and 2011, World Affairs Council and countless other events- spreading the message that we are all capable of the extraordinary in our lives and that in fact, the impossible is possible.
Find out more about Ray’s Impossible to Possible http://impossible2possible.com
Ben Kaplan, General Manager
iRun because I like being free
Author of Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now, and former running columnist for the National Post, Kaplan joined iRun in December, 2014, and has since collected twelve new pairs of running shoes. A former editor at GQ and New York magazines, Kaplan also taught a year-long running clinic at Toronto’s Black Toe Running and took a group of people from the couch to the marathon. A frequent guest on radio and TV, Kaplan has appeared on Global’s Morning Show, Steven and Chris on CBC, and Metro Morning with Matt Galloway.
Anna Lee Boschetto, Managing Editor
iRun because it challenges and changes me.
A health and wellness writer, Boschetto has been a part of the iRun team since 2013. Previously an editor with Oxygen and Clean Eating magazines, she has also contributed to Parents Canada, Elevate and Canadian Living. Boschetto has also facilitated community running groups for York Region residents.
