patfarmerathlete

My least favorite condition is freezing cold and in particular the wind, I believe that wind is the greatest force on this earth. It's the most difficult force to deal with, you can't see it but it pushes you around like a marble on the playground. Ideally, anything else.

I would have to say being snuck into Canadian Parliament during the pole-to-pole run. I was invited by someone to the opening of parliament and I snuck in there in my runner shorts and sweaty t-shirt. The parliamentarian security ended up booting me out, but then straight afterwards some of the ministers came out to speak with me and have their photos taken with me.

For a standard marathon which is 42km, it was 2 hours and 20 minutes, which I did in Japan. For an 80km marathon, I did it in 5 hours and 30 minutes.

Pat: No.

Katie: The biggest problems he had was that he a stress fracture during the Trans-American Foot Race. Other than that, he's body is clearly built for endurance otherwise he wouldn't have lasted 30 years. The biggest ailments he's had has been obvious things like blisters, which you need to deal with.

Pat: Try something else like doing some work on a bike, or some gym work that involves skipping it. Then come back to running in a couple of weeks time. The process behind it the is not only to stay fit and healthy but to shake things up a bit.

It's easy to get into a rhythm and you need to overcome the mental barriers towards running.

Katie: As a personal trainer, from a more formal point of view what happens is you reach a plateau and you have an increase in workload that stimulates progressive - we call it progressive overload. When you plateau you're just maintaining and so you need to increase the workload somehow - you can do this by increasing distance, length, different exercises or have less rest.

You need to keep increasing the workload as to improve rather than maintain.