Inspired Soles

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text It’s time to welcome our third Couple of the Quarter, Brad Whitson and Jennifer Tackley, to the show!  They are a running couple from Winnipeg with decades of running experience together.  You would be hard pressed to find a race that they haven’t done in North America.  The range represented between the two of them is incredible, from shorter r...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Ihor Verys is an energetic 26 year old up and coming trail runner whom we met in Manitoba, although he recently moved to Chilliwack, BC to be closer to the mountain trails. Although he has been running for the last 5 years, Ihor discovered his love of trail running more recently during the pandemic, and has found himself excelling at longer and...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Today we’re pleased to welcome Carolyn’s husband’s big sister, Alana Cadieux, to the podcast. Alana is an Air Traffic Controller in the Royal Canadian Air Force and has been stationed in Cold Lake AB for the past 20+ years. Even though Alana excelled at running throughout her teens on PEI, she felt drawn to attend Dalhousie University where she...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Today co-host Kim Senechal breaks down her recent Sinister 7 50-mile race in Alberta, the first in-person race she’s run in almost two years. As if running 50 miles isn’t hard enough, this race was actually closer to 51.5 miles, it had over 9000 ft of elevation gain, and Kim completed this on the heels of moving two provinces over from the prair...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text With the Tokyo Olympics set to start in just a few days, we feel today’s conversation with Dennis Lang could not be more fitting! Now 70 years old, he opens with a story from when he was just 13 years old about watching a Canadian win a silver medal on the track at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, and how that was the first of several pivotal moments...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Today we’re honoured to be speaking with one of the great pioneers of Canadian women’s running, Diane Palmason. Now in her 80s and living in Comox, BC, Diane recalls how she discovered her love of running at a Sunday school picnic when she was just seven years old. By 12 she was recruited to train with the Mercury Athletic Club, a women’s only t...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Jon Paradowski is a runner from Regina, SK, who describes himself as just a regular guy who’s run some 100 milers, a 200 miler and some winter ultras.  Jon’s running resume includes such races as UTMB, Fat Dog 120, Cascade Crest 100, Sulphur Springs 200 and numerous appearances at the Spruce Woods Ultra.  He is a very diverse athlete who also ex...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Donna Bishop-Malapad is the wife of Junel Malapad whom we interviewed in Episode 19. We asked her to come on the podcast to talk about what it’s like to be the spouse and crew chief of someone who found their running passion later in life and hasn’t stopped running since!  She talks about crewing Junel in the middle of the night, driving all ove...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Kirsten Parker is the host of Women Run Canada where she talks with Olympians, running legends, race directors and community builders who share our passion for this fantastic sport. Carolyn even had the pleasure of co-hosting an episode with Kirsten where they interviewed her hometown running Shero, Paula Wiltse . In this episode we pull back th...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Joel Toews is a husband and father from Winnipeg who loves trail running and organizing races for trail runners under On The Edge Running. During the day (when not shut down by COVID) he’s a Personal Trainer and Group Training Coach at North Star Fitness. He’s been running since high school and almost exclusively trails and ultras for 10 years....

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Jeff Vince is a 73 y.o. Winnipeg running legend who has been inspiring his community to lace up their shoes for well over 40 years. A retired Chartered Accountant, by his mid 30s Jeff described himself as a stressed out overweight workaholic couch potato who desperately wanted to change his lifestyle. Since then he has run over 87 marathons and...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Heidi Schmaltz is a trail ultrarunner, nurse, and mother of 2 from Saskatchewan, Canada.  Heidi and Kim have literally crossed paths on the trail but have never officially met in person.  That said, thanks to modern technology and the relatively small trail running community of the Canadian Prairies, Kim & Heidi have gotten to know each othe...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text How often do you think about your teeth in the context of your running?  Kim comes from a family full of dentists, so dental health has always been something on her radar.  Despite it being something she thinks about, there doesn’t seem to be many people talking about dental health in running and endurance sport, so she invited her cousin, Ken P...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Meet our second Couple of the Quarter ... Jenn & Brock Tadashore. Jenn & Brock are both health professionals in their 40s from Collingwood ON with two young girls and a very full life, yet they somehow manage to make running and their relationship top priorities. In this episode we get into:  How they juggle it all If it ever causes fric...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text When we asked Caroline Wiebe to be on the podcast, she responded with, “I’m not that interesting.  Who would want to hear MY story?”  At Inspired Soles  we want to hear those real life stories from all types of runners and we think you will agree that Caroline has a story worth sharing!  Caroline is a 49 year old mother of two and a registered n...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Trevor Funk is an incredibly versatile runner from Saint John, NB who enjoys running 5k to marathon distances on the road and he recently started taking his runs onto the trails as well!  In fact, Trevor enjoys running so much that at the start of the pandemic he began a year-long streak, running a minimum of 2K every day for 366 days. Trevor ta...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Cassandra Bonn is 45 year old Account and Sales Executive with Quinte Broadcasting in Belleville ON. She took up running in her early 30s and even though her two children were young at the time, she went all in on training to the point that she qualified for the Boston Marathon. In 2013 with her husband, children and mother in the crowd, she abs...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Lynsey Romano is the owner of Skyline Run Coaching, a virtual business based in Airdrie, AB with a team of two coaches and over 35 athletes. They create personalized and evidence-based running and strength training plans with an emphasis on enjoyment of the sport and long term athlete development. Lynsey is a lifelong learner when it comes to bo...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Dalip Shekhawat is a passionate educator, mountaineer, and ultra runner who grew up in the Himalayas and now calls Winnipeg home. Dalip has climbed over fifteen mountain peaks including Mt. Everest on May 16, 2019. He works at St. Amant school as a special education teacher and he is also a member of Royal Winnipeg Rifles, a primary reserve infa...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text This episode marks the end of another quarter where Kim and Carolyn reflect on their own running, what’s new in their lives, and industry news including potential trail and road races throughout Manitoba and around the world. Kim kicks things off with a pretty big announcement that is making for lots of changes in her life and her running, and C...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Have you ever been secretly terrified that you have a stress fracture, wondered what RED-S is, or had trouble deciding whether you should run through that tendon pain or not? Today we're speaking with Dr. Sylvia Loewen,  a Sports Medicine Physician at The Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg, Medical Advisor to the Pan Am Running & Gait Centre, an...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Kathy Wiens is the Executive Director for the Manitoba Runners’ Association and has had an avid relationship with running for decades.  We invited her on the podcast to talk about organized running in 2020 and 2021 and the challenges faced by race directors and event organizers going forward.  We get her take on the cancellation of the Stonewall...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Roslyn Smith is a 72 year old road runner from Comox, BC who holds Canadian masters records in the 8k (37:44, W70), half marathon (1:39:06, W65) and marathon (3:39:35 W65; 3:52:20 W70). In 2019 she flat-out won her 70-74 age group at the Boston Marathon, beating her running idol Jeannie Rice by over 10 minutes in a true display of the tortoise a...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text Will Barkan is an accomplished ultrarunner from San Francisco, CA who is legally blind. He was diagnosed with Stargartd’s disease at age 10 and has had progressive vision loss since then.  He has been legally blind since high school, but has not let his disability limit his lifestyle. In addition to completing the Pacific Coast Trail in four mon...

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a text We are so excited to be kicking off a brand new series called Couple of the Quarter where once every three months we go deep with a couple about how running fits into their relationship. It will be one of two scenarios -- they are either both runners or just one partner is a runner, like our first twosome today -- Andrew and Darla Forbes.  Andre...