Athletics Ontario Running Podcast

Brian Bondy wanted to know what running for over 48 hours felt like! So the ultrarunner, who also represented Team Canada at the 2022 Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra National Championships, tested himself a…

All around the world, Kevin MacKinnon is the voice of endurance sports, in digital media, in coaches' corner and in the announcer's booth. What makes the man behind the microphone, whose 30 year car…

 What can we learn from one of the most impressive first years in the world of 100 milers? We find out from Marianne Hogan, ultrarunner and coach, who made the podium at both the 2022 Western States…

His full title is Event Supervisor for Happy Trails Racing, but informally, Byron Guptill is THE supporter of the sport of running and the people in it. On this episode of the Trillium Running Podcas…

Bart Yasso, the Mayor of Running, the retired Runner’s World Chief Running Officer and the creator of the “Yasso 800's," was an absolute treasure to have on the Trillium Running Podcast.  He joins us…

From racing in the legendary streets of Boston to the frozen and chilly Antarctic, Matt West of DMSE Sports has given runners all over the globe the opportunity to fulfill their running dreams. On th…

In Part Two of our discussion with Sabrina Pace-Humphries, co-founder of UK's Black Trail Runners, we learn about the reasons behind the Black Trail Runners movement, the positive impact they are hav…

Get ready for a great one. Sabrina Pace-Humphries is an ultrarunner, a force for diversity and inclusion, author, and co-founder of UK's Black Trail Runners. Listen to her inspiring story of life, re…

Kevin Coffey is inspiration and perseverence personified. This week on the Trillium Running Podcast, host John Shep speaks with professional coach and runner, survivor of a brutal Traumatic Brain In…

Rising costs, construction, post-pandemic recovery - all of these are impacting the landscape of local marathons in Ontario. Kerry Gillespie is a sports reporter for the Toronto Star, who wrote an ex…

We made it! Host John Shep and the Tailgate Night Runners (Byron, Louis, Ken, Chris and Jeff) stumbled to the finish line of the Chilly Half Marathon to cap off their 2023 Goggins Challenge (run 4 mi…

The Around the Bay Road Race is a unique distance, a unique race and has a unique history. 129 years and going strong, host John Shep speaks with Race Director Anna Lewis about her passion for this i…

Hear about us gearing up for the 2023 Push Your Limits Goggins Challenge with The Maddie Project on the Trillium Running Podcast. We chat with founder Nicole German, Emma Dolphin of Aethos and runne…

Dr. Heather Wheeler, Ph.D., C.Psych. is the Mental Health Practitioner at the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario where she is leading the Mental Health Strategy. She is the Mental Health Lead for Athl…

Ontario Ultrarunner Reid Burrows is ready to tackle Black Canyon 100k (February 18 in Arizona), just as he has tackled mental health challenges throughout his athletic career. This week on the Trilli…

Our passion for running extends beyond what it gives our physical health, so we are taking the month of February to talk about its importance for mental health. This week on the Trillium Running Podc…

It's our one year anniversary!

We celebrate by wrapping up our Race Director 101 series on the Trillium Running Podcast an amazing panel from the 2023 Athletics Ontario Race Director Summit. Listen a…

We continue our Race Director 101 series on the Trillium Running Podcast with the ever gracious and knowledgable Kevin Jones of Odyssey Medical (who donated their services to last Fall's Trillium Run…

Following last Fall's Trillium Running Festival (our very own trail run in Uxbridge, ON!), we realized there are 101 things that we would love to know more about putting on our own run! We start our …

The older we get, the more immersed in the nitty gritty of running, the more we forget the joy. We sometimes forget the connection that running gives us to community and to the ones we love. 11-year-…