Why Canadians aren't totally masochistic for running in the wintertime via nparts
The winter in Canada doesn’t present any other option. We train through emergency cold warnings, when pipes are bursting, transit is being cancelled and cars across the country won’t start.It’s not masochism, exactly, but it’s not something I’d consider pleasurable. Far from it. No winter glove can do the job that insulation around those bursted pipes cannot.
I run in the wintertime because to not run would leave me wondering who I am. And anyway, there are goals for spring; and to head indoors would take something away from my being. I lace up and jump over the snow and envision myself being immortal. It’s a feeling of power; of strength and dominance, and of not being afraid.
“On a beautiful day in May along the Montreal Gateway Terminal, you can’t wave at every runner because it’s so packed. But when it’s minus 15 and you see another runner, there’s so much more meaning — you both know that you’re really doing this,” explains Reid Coolsaet, two-time Olympic marathoner and a 39-year-old father of two, the third fastest Canadian in history.
“It’s more painful to walk in this cold weather than it is to go for a run. For me, it’s just another day at the office,” says Krista DuChene, an Olympian and mother of three whose third place finish at last year’s Boston Marathon was the best Canadian result in 36 years. DuChene has competed nine times at this month’s Around the Bay, an epic 125-year-old race in Hamilton that breeds a specific toughness in all those who run. “I can’t postpone a workout.
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