I’ve been stretching before I run for as long as I can remember. I started stretching before runs because my uncle always did and since he was the “adult” runner I knew I did it too. Now I do it because it feels good, and if I don’t stretch before I run I feel like something’s missing. It’s always made sense to me that stretching...

Last Friday I went on my first 30K (19 miles) run since the Tiberias marathon (Jan 7th). My plan (which I stuck to) was to run the first half of the run at a heart rate between 140-150, the next 6 miles at a 155 heart rate and the last 3 miles at 160 HR. It went pretty well up until the 15th mile which was when my HR started going a little...

My biggest challenge since starting my new training regime has been changing the way I eat. Yes, the running has been hard (ran 19 mile yesterday) but I that’s that kind of hard I actually enjoy. Changing eating habits is hard and not fun at all. I had my fourth meeting with my dietician last week. I’ve come a long way since I started...

If you are taking Avandia or Actos and you have been reading about heart disease you may be concerned and you should be. As a class, these drugs increase your risk of heart disease and recent studies are confirming what we already suspected: Avandia is a bit worse on the heart than Actos. However, there is something you can do to protect...

Something that I’ve been thinking about for a while is the fact that last year I spent four months training for a marathon and didn’t lose any weight.  None!  And now, how can it be that after completing two marathons in eight months, I still haven’t lost much weight?  I’m not alone in this. I’ve noticed that a lot of marathon...

I prefer running in the mornings. I didn’t always. I used to run in the evenings after work, or after the kids went to sleep. There were two problems with this. The first was that it took up too much of my family time. The second was that I spent the whole day worrying about eating and injecting correctly for my run. So I started running...

A few weeks ago I received a notice from the organizers of the Tel Aviv marathon announcing that the marathon had been postponed from March 26th to May 13th .The postponement is due to a disagreement between the police, the sponsors (Adidas) and the city regarding the course of the race. Only someone with absolutely no understanding of...

I’ve never really gotten the hang of the art/science of counting carbohydrates. Since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes I’ve seen a number of dieticians, and each has given me the standard tables with amounts of food and how many servings of carbohydrates are in each.  I’ve taken them home and then basically ignored them (along...

Kelly Mager used to run a haut café in Victoria but she realized that she disliked the city life and the clientele that went with it. “the soup would have been nicer if it was served in a red bowl” complained one of her customers. When she met Marco Delesalle she knew that her new path was into the mountains. I had eaten Kelly’s...

Jan 10: It is snowing now. When I look out the window, all I can see are the flakes falling on the nearby trees and formations of cracked granite. Robeson is working on the electrical system in the kitchen and all I hear from that corner of the hut is laughter. Robeson Gmoser is the son of the famous Hans Gmoser who, along with the equally...