Episodes
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Dayna Pidhoresky's long road back to marathon gold
For many Canadian marathon fans, when Dayna Pidhoresky crossed the finish line as national marathon champion at last week’s TCS Toronto Waterfront marathon, there was a collective feeling of deja vu. A massive new personal best, a Canadian championship title and a calendar year of racing that…
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Andrew Davies recaps record-breaking marathon debut
When Andrew Davies toed the starting line at the 2026 TCS Toronto Waterfront marathon last Sunday, he did so with the hope that his first crack at 42.2km would be a positive enough experience to justify running another marathon in the year ahead. Over the course of the next 2 hours, 8 minutes…
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Chicago Marathon preview with Thomas Fafard & Coach Félix-Antoine Lapointe
Sign up today for The Shakeout Podcast Shakeout Run: Thursday, Oct. 15 at 6:00 p.m. ET, at the Canadian Running offices, 75 Harbord St., Toronto, Ont. M5S 1G4. Over the course of a career on the track that included a spot in the 5,000m final at the Paris Olympics in 2024, Thomas Fafard…
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Durability: Why some athletes keep pushing when others crumble | Alex Hutchinson
The Shakeout Podcast Shakeout Run: Thursday, October 15 @ 6:00pm EST, 75 Harbord St. Toronto The Shakeout Podcast LIVE from the Toronto Waterfront Marathon Expo: Friday, October 16 3:00-3:45pm EST For years, orthodox thinking on endurance training could be reduced to three central pillars: V02…
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Performance supplements: what's science and what's snake oil? Brady Holmer
To hear the marketing team at one of any number of different sport supplement companies tell it, your next personal best is just one sip, slurp, or shot away. Whether it’s the latest super-food concentrate, the greatest powdered potion, or maybe even a new topical gel, the market for performance...
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Stafford sisters set their sights on the mile at the World Road Running Championships
Between the two of them, there isn't much in the world of global running championships that sisters Gabriela DeBues-Stafford and Lucia Stafford haven't tackled. Both two-time Olympians and multi-time national champs, the Stafford sisters have come to define middle- and long-distance track for a...
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VO2maxxing: What it means, why it matters, and how much should you care? Mick Leahy Ph.D.
We’ve all got one, but what does it actually mean, and does the number your smart watch gives you actually matter? This week on The Shakeout Podcast we're setting out to understand the science of VO2 Max, a metric that seems to be everywhere in the saturated world of endurance training advice.…
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Find him at the top: Canada's fastest vertical runner Alex Ricard
If you wanted to know which athlete was at the top of Canadian trail running, a safe bet, at least in the most literal sense, would be Alex Ricard. The Squamish based athlete has established a reputation as the best vertical runner in the country, clocking off wins and KOMs on some of Canada’s…
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Newly-minted Canadian half-marathon champion Jadyn Keeler on her road to Worlds
Jadyn Keeler will be the first to admit that the further the race distance, the happier she is. That love for going long was on full display last weekend in Edmonton at the Canadian Half Marathon Championships, where even a measurement error that added nearly 700m to the stated race distance...
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Ultrarunner Stephanie Case previews UTMB, talks prep for Antarctic 100-Mile record attempt
Based on running accomplishments alone, Stephanie Case’s career is nothing short of remarkable, boasting a raft of ultra victories and podiums across some of the globe’s most iconic and challenging courses in a career that spans the better part of two decades. Yet while her accomplishments in the...
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Natasha Wodak looks for national title #13 against a loaded half marathon field
The Canadian half marathon championships take place this Sunday, August 16th in Edmonton and for Canadian marathon record holder Natasha Wodak 13 miles and a stellar women's elite field stand between her and a 13th national championship title. After a convincing win on the Edmonton course in…
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In the Red: Understanding the difference between normal training fatigue and energy deficiency
Kumsa Yuya spent years believing that his chronic fatigue and frequent illnesses were simply the cost of training hard for his marathon goals. Based on conventional wisdom, it seemed to Kumsa that he was doing everything right: prioritizing recovery, eating nutritious food, and paying special...
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Thomas Nobbs's 20-year journey to a 2:09 marathon
For someone who has yet to reach his 27th birthday, Thomas Nobbs has already spent a lifetime in the world of competitive running. Since joining his first track club at age seven, the Vancouver native quickly found his stride, falling in love with the work harder/run faster equation that distance...
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Sadé McCreath: Canada's fastest woman went from nearly quitting to a national record
For most of the past 40 years, the Canadian record in the women’s 100m remained stagnant, hovering right under the 11 second barrier and moving just 0.04 over the span of nearly 4 decades. But that all changed earlier this month when Ajax, ON Sadé McCreath stormed to a massive lifetime best of...
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Iron-clad your training: the critical mineral runners need to perform at their best
For many athletes, especially in the world of endurance sport, the exhaustion that follows a hard effort is part of the reward for the training it took to make it happen. But when the mountaintop feeling of a new personal best fades away and the fatigue still lingers, it might be a sign of...
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Is HYROX the future of endurance training? World Champion Madelyn Eybergen thinks so
A few months ago, Madelyn Eybergen joined this show as Canada's university cross-country champion. Today, she's back as a world champion, but not in running. Instead, she conquered one of the fastest-growing sports in endurance: hybrid racing. If there were ever a competition to crown the world’s...
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For multi-time champ Kelsey Hogan, Quebec Mega Trail is a race like no other
For all of Canada’s incredible venues for trail racing, none captures the attention of the running world quite so much as the famed Quebec Mega Trail. For years, QMT has been the proving ground for the nation’s top ultra endurance athletes and one that has increasingly drawn the interest of some…
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The Peak beyond the podium: Barkley finisher & mental performance coach Nickademus de la Rosa on escaping a performance-based identity
Nickademus de la Rosa is no stranger to mountaintops, of both the literal and metaphorical variety. For much of the 2010s he was at the top of the ultrarunning world, rattling off podium appearances at some of the longest, toughest and most iconic events in the sport, and boasting a list of...
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The Rundown: all the storylines you need to know for this year's Canadian track & field championships
The 2026 Canadian track & field championships are underway from Ottawa and The Shakeout Podcast team brings you all the storylines you need to know heading into a full weekend of action on the track. Host John Gay is joined by Canadian Running's Cameron Ormond and special guest Avery Pearson…
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Stop paying for pricey pee: What electrolyte companies don't want you to know about hydration
A quick scan of a pre-race warmup area and you’ll see a rainbow array of brightly coloured drink mixes filling the bottles, beakers, and hydration packs of endurance athletes. For many, these beverages are the bridge between the hydration needs of “normal” people and the performance necessities…
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Evan Jager: An Olympic medallist, a Swedish startup and the super supplement that's sweeping endurance sport
Weeks after retiring from one of the greatest professional running careers in a generation, Evan Jager found himself inside a Swedish lab testing a supplement made from broccoli sprouts. The results of those lab tests caught his attention, and before the ink was dry on his retirement letter to…
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Debriefing the debut: My post-marathon recap with Coach Jonathan Green
This week on the Shakeout Podcast host John Gay is joined by his coach Jonathan Green of Verde Track Club to breakdown the 2026 Ottawa Marathon, John's debut at the distance. 48 hours post race John and Jon review the training block leading up to Ottawa, the key workouts along the way, and the...
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Canadian cancer survivor's journey to the Ottawa Marathon
For his entire adult life, Olivier Duhaime has been no stranger to taking on hard challenges. Running his first marathon at just 18 years old proved a gateway into endurance sport that would see the Gatineau native tackle events from ironmans to ultramarathons and even a multi-day cross-province...
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After the marathon: How to recover like a Pro ft. Rory Linkletter and Jacob Thomson
It’s the middle of May and if you’re a marathon runner chances are that means one of two things for you: either entering the final weeks, days, or maybe hours of your race taper or, on the other end of the spectrum, relearning the fundamentals of basic human function after your most recent date...
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The shoe that went sub-2: The science of super shoes with Dr. Shalaya Kipp
Every sport has had its watershed moment when a new technology upends the landscape and redefines what’s possible. Baseball had torpedo bats, swimming the Lazer swimsuits, road cycling the introduction of aerodynamic carbon frames and in running we are living through an era defined by what were...
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Keen on trail running: shoe designer Scott Robertson wants you to get lost
For shoe designers, bringing a new model to market is always an uphill battle, but when that model is your first foray into the running shoe industry, it’s an even steeper mountain to climb. Fortunately for Scott Robertson, Innovation product manager at KEEN, reaching challenging summits is…
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How national record holder Kieran Lumb embodies the Norwegian method
Perhaps it comes with the territory for someone with a degree in electrical engineering, but Kieran Lumb has never shied away from exploring the “Why” behind what he’s doing. In the context of his current day job, running as fast as possible at distances from the 1500m to the 10k, Kieran’s...
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Boston Marathon preview with Canadian Olympian Ben Preisner
Ben Preisner may be the 3rd fastest Canadian of all time over the marathon distance, but when he toes the line on Marathon Monday in Boston he’ll be a rookie all over again. Despite a 2:08 personal best, 3 World Championship appearances, and an Olympic Games under his belt, the 2026 Boston…
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World Champ Christopher Morales Williams keeps levelling up
When Christopher Morales Williams ran his personal best in the indoor 400m in 2024 he became the first–and only–man in history to dip under 44.5 seconds. Due to a faulty sensor in his starting blocks however, what should be the official world record was never ratified. Two years later, and…
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Sport science writer Alex Hutchinson digs into runnings high-carb craze
The pre-race carb-load is a right of passage in the sport of distance running, but in recent years runners’ obsession with carbohydrates has reached a level of fanaticism that puts other running trends to shame. A growing canon of research is rewriting what we thought we knew about the body’s...
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Master your next marathon with Olympian Dylan Wykes
With Spring around the corner, Canada Geese aren’t the only animals reappearing along the park paths and greenspaces of Canadian cities. They’re joined by another species emerging to embrace warmer weather and sunnier days ahead: the spring road racer. Whether you’ve been counting down the days...
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Canadian distance star Foster Malleck recaps his record-setting season
If Rookie cards were a thing in the sport of Track & Field, then Foster Malleck’s would be one you’d kill to get your hands on. After a 6 year NCAA career at Boston University where it took right up until his final collegiate season to qualify for the national championships, the Kitchener Ontario...
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Molly Seidel is turning marathon bronze into trail gold
It’s been common wisdom in endurance sports that the further the race distance gets, the longer it takes to figure it out. But every rule needs an exception to prove it and on this count one needs look no further than the career of Molly Seidel. After a gold-studded NCAA career at Notre Dame...
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The Rundown: The Stars to watch at the 2026 U Sports Championships
It’s the first week of March and that means one things for Canadian track & field fans: the U Sports track & field championships have arrived. This week on The Shakeout Podcast we’re joined by Canadian Running staff writer and U Sport insider Cameron Ormond, who joins the show to give us the...
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Why injury-free running starts with the right diagnosis | Dr. Bryan Kent
The injury cycle can feel like a game of whack-a-mole, with one nagging pain going away only to be replaced by several different issues elsewhere. For the injured runner, the path to lasting health and getting back to the pain-free running begins with the right diagnosis. Yet while that may sound...
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How the Rubik’s Cube record holder solved the riddle of the Marathon | George Scholey
Like finishing a marathon, successfully completing a Rubik's Cube is something that even those who have never done it understand that it's challenging, unique and worth celebrating. And the few who have done it enjoy a special type of camaraderie. To most minds, the similarities between the cube...
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Parenting athletes: get out of the way and let 'em play | Paul Gamble PhD
So who’s really driving this machine? Today’s guest, Paul Gamble, PhD, has spent his career preparing elite and international athletes. But after years inside professional sport, he started asking an uncomfortable question: Are we developing better athletes—or just burning kids out earlier? In…
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Cam Levins returns to Tokyo Marathon with records in sight
The last time Cam Levins took the streets of Vancouver for the Vancouver First Half, he left with a new Canadian record at the half-marathon distance. Weeks later, he kept the record-breaking streak going with a career-defining run of 2:05:36 at the 2023 Tokyo Marathon, taking a minute and a half...
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How a full-time nurse ran a 2:29 marathon | Erin Mawhinney & Coach Reid Coolsaet
Getting the worst flu of your life isn’t a perfect plan for anyone’s marathon race-week, but if there’s any athlete who's used to less-than-ideal prep it’s Hamilton’s Erin Mawhinney, a nurse educator who balances training upwards of 150km each week with the demands of full-time healthcare work.…
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Lucia Stafford | The two-time Olympian marks a new chapter with U.K.-based M11 Track Club
If there’s one word to describe the professional career of Lucia Stafford, it’s consistency. Since storming onto her first Olympic team in Tokyo at just 22, there has yet to be a global championship or major games where the Toronto native hasn’t been a part of Team Canada. For half a decade…
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New Year, New Records | Rory Linkletter & Kieran Lumb kick off 2026 with National Records
If the early days of 2026 are any indication, the year ahead might be one for the history books in Canadian road running. This past weekend saw the fall of not one, but two national records in two of the most hotly-contested distances, the 10K and the half-marathon. Within the span of just a few...
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Matt Talbot | Canadian World XC Team Member on His Rapid Rise to the Top
As in almost every previous year, in 2025, Canadian elite startlines looked much the same from coast to coast. Whether it was 5,000m on the track, 10K on the road or on the mud and grass of the cross-country course, a familiar cast of national elites toed the line from Vancouver to Montreal,...
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New Year Special with Guest Host Rory Linkletter & Marathon Project Champ JP Flavin
The Shakeout Podcast kicks off 2026 with a special New Year's Day episode featuring guest host Rory Linkletter. Rory joins John Gay for a conversation with recently crowned The Marathon Project champion JP Flavin, fresh off his win and new lifetime best of 2:09:18. The pros-only event was held in...
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Make Nutrition a Priority to Fuel your Best Year of Running Yet | Registered Dietitian Sandra Kilmartin
While the holiday season represents a break from training for some, for others it’s the perfect opportunity to start ramping up towards big goals in the year ahead. Regardless of where you find yourself, the end of one year and the beginning of the next marks a perfect time for all runners to…
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Malindi Elmore | Recapping another Record Breaking Marathon in Valencia
After being named to lead the Canadian marathon team at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Malindi Elmore had some injury struggles through the spring and summer and was forced to withdraw. She decided to focus on returning to full health in hopes of finding a later starting line where…
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The Fight to Save McGill University's Track & Field Program | Derek Covington: Head of Friends of McGill
On November 20th, McGill University announced devastating budget cuts to its athletics programs and the dissolution of 25 varsity and competitive club sports, effective next year. Amongst that list was both men’s and women’s track and field, programs which have existed on campus for more than a...
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Solving Pain from the Inside Out to Build Robust Runners | Strength Coach & Manual Therapist Jesse Prescott
When a debilitating back injury derailed Jesse Prescott's own athletic endeavours over a decade ago, it created in him an obsession with better understanding the root causes of pain, learning how to strengthen his body against future injury, and sharing what he learned with athletes of all ages…
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Ceili McCabe | The ACXC Champ on Going Pro, Returning from Injury, and Taking on the World in 2026
After missing out on seeing Ceili McCabe in competition this outdoor track & field season, the wait is over for running fans to see her back at a national championship, as she returned in style this past weekend with a masterclass performance at the 2025 Canadian Cross Country Championships in...
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Why 80% of Canadian Olympians Rely on Charitable Donations | CANFund Founder Jane Roos
As a teenager, Jane Roos was one of the country’s most promising young talents in track and field, with Olympic aspirations to represent Canada in the heptathlon. At age 18, those aspirations came to an abrupt halt after a devastating car accident brought an end to her athletic career. While...
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The Rundown: ACXC Preview
The best distance runners in the country are heading back to London for the 2025 Canadian Cross Country Championships and Canadian Running is your source for all the action. The stakes are extra high for this year’s edition of ACXC, as athletes go head-to-head for to secure their place on the...
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