Only in Montreal: McGill Olympic Club
The McGill Olympic Club was recently featured on City TV’s “Only in Montreal:”
Thanks to Matt Silver for being such a game host, and Joanna Fox for her excellent skills as well.
“How to get good at running” or Coach Blog: Winter Training Feb 2-8
This week was kind of one big long progression. Starting on Monday we went from 20min steady to 12min tempo to 8min at 10k effort.
Coach Blog: Winter Training January 26-Feb 1
Just grinding out the winter weeks now…Monday we continued with the fartlek progression: 30min of 3min at 10k effort, 2min Marathon effort.
Coach Blog: Training January 19-25
This week was a recovery week for the club, but not for me (more on that later!).
Coach Blog: Winter Training January 12-18
After last week’s false start in the cold, milder temperatures allowed us to get a little more work done early this week.
Coach Blog: Winter Training January 5-11
The New Year started off pretty rough. The first days back to group training featured temps below -30 and streets covered in ice, so we had to cancel the first practice of the year.
Coach Blog: The New Year
The new year is upon us. Steve Magness wrote an interesting blog post about what happens when you set out your resolutions in public.
Coach blog: Fall Training December
We had a good year. 85 PBs for the group starting in April with 5 at the St.
Coach Blog: Fall Training November 24-30
This was a second fairly big week, though we took the volume down a bit.
Monday: Progression run.
Coach Blog: Fall training November 17-23
We are right back at it this week. Since cross country season for us is a means to an end, there’s no need to take more than the cyclical down week as a break.
Coach Blog: Fall training November 10-16
This week was a pretty light week. We did a fairly easy tempo on the Monday, 20min as 10min out, 10min back on the canal.
Coach Blog: Fall training November 3-9
This week was pretty big in terms of volume, as despite most runners being done their xc seasons, we are still in build mode.
Coach Blog: Fall training October 27-November 2
After a successful provincial xc championship that saw 4 of our club runners move on to national school championships (Jullien Flynn, Melanie Myrand, Francois Jarry to CIS and Nassim Ennabaoui to CCAA), we moved back into build mode for the next two weeks.
Coach Blog: Fall training October 20-26
This week we switched things around a bit because of the provincial cross-country championships on the weekend.
Classic Kitely-McInnes Final 2015 CIS XC poll at Montreal Endurance brought to you by New Balance 2014
The moment of truth is upon us. This weekend in St. John’s, all will be revealed.
Coach Blog: Fall training October 13-19
This was an interesting week for a few reasons. It was week two of a build up, so we had a fairly big load last week, and the plan was to have a similarly heavy load this week.
CIS XC ranker
I thought I would try something new. The premise is simple: if a team is too high, vote them down, if they are too low, vote them up.