Motivate to Move

Tonight our very special guests are Jennifer Williston and Karine Godin, and these two ladies love to challenge themselves and run on the trails. They both lead the Moncton women's trail running group and we hear the passion in tonight's conversation from both of them. Both have extensive backgrounds and love and played multiple types of sports over the years. Karine recently completed a 54km Ultr...

The main goal for this episode with Darren Duguay is to talk about the Buddy Up campaign. How 3/4 of all suicides are men or boys and how we can help to change those numbers by being aware. We are trying to move the needle with programs like Buddy Up and Darren helps us by teaching us that things just don't have to be this way. By adding tools to our toolbox we can help our friends and our communi...

Reid Burrows is back in part 2 of his podcast episode and Reid lays it all on the line once again. It's all about the process and Reid is enjoying the hard work. Reid tells us if he does all the hard work and he isn't successful that he will be satisfied with the results. Reid has come such a long way because at one time he hated life and was thinking about ending things but that is not Reid today...

Tonight our very special guest is Reid Burrows originally from the small town of Grand Bay-Westfield here in NB. Reid was racing triathlons nationally and internationally and then an accident changed everything. Reid is now promoting a link between mental health and trail running and that is where our conversation mainly goes. Reid tells us of his mental health issues and how it all started, how h...

Tonight our special guest is Andrew Jefferies and Andrew's main activity is Adventure racing, something he is very passionate about. Adventure racing is generally 2 or 3 different activities with a running component and a tracking component and perhaps a biking component added. In other words a Multi-disciplinary team sport. Always with a map and checkpoints, there are several different versions o...

Tonight's episode is partly about Saint John trail running and mainly about getting outside in a friendly setting with other people and enjoying the great outdoors. Our special guests Mark McColgan and Sarah Lamos are back with us tonight to talk about that very subject with all our listeners. Both have been on our show before, Mark in episode 58 and Sarah in episode 47. Even if you have listened...

Our very special guest in today's episode is Sarah Quintin from Dieppe New Brunswick. Right away we find out that Sarah is very active and does many different activities to keep in shape and keep on moving. We talk about the balance of time and now Sarah is a new grandmother and how she keeps everything in check. This is a big issue for many of our guests on our podcast so it's always good to hear...

We welcome back to our podcast a very popular guest, Michael Roy. In today's episode, we wanted to go more in-depth on the topic of bike safety, both from the cyclists and the individual driving a vehicle. If you want to know more about Michael Roy and his passion please go back to episode 50 parts A and B. Active transportation and stricter laws on distracted driving are what we really get into i...

Tonight we continue with our interview with Darren Duguay. Darren starts off by talking about things that affect athletes and their personal performance. Darren was personally struggling with addiction but he changed his focus to being busy and running away from his childhood and other things. Once Darren discovered Emotional Fitness® in 2012 it was the missing piece to his puzzle. Then I pose a h...

Tonight our very special guest is Darren Duguay, we met at the 8@8 on a Saturday morning at the YMCA in Moncton while running. We learn that Darren served in the military for 27 years and we want to thank Darren for all his service. We talk about Darren and his Boston Marathon runs and how a total team commitment got everyone through to the end. Then we get onto the 2013 Boston marathon when the b...

Melanie Wilson is our very special guest tonight. Melanie likes to stay active and we love speaking with people like Melanie that are motivated to move. We learn that Melanie does a lot of fun things such as Zumba and ultimate frisbee, and triathlons, plus Melanie loves cycling. She started cycling with a group called Cycle chicks and was cycling all over and that's what really got Melanie going....

Tonight our special guest is Katie Rogers and we find out right away how Katie loves being involved in team sports and being part of a team. Katie wasn't really interested in working out alone so she did join a gym and enjoyed fitness classes. When Katie signed up for a boot camp that's when things started to get interesting. Her instructor suggested Katie try Triathlons and later she registered f...

Diane starts part two of our episode with Alvin Richard by asking about his first time at the Boston Marathon, 19 years after he knew that he would run that marathon. Alvin tells us about some of his memories from that amazing first race. We talk about the emotions of those moments and the passion that Alvin has. We discuss how much of a tough time Alvin has when running in the heat and how that a...

Tonight's special guest is Alvin Richard and Alvin gets us started by talking about how he had a resurgence in running back in 2019. He ended up breaking 50 minutes for a 10km run, something he hadn't done in 10 years. Alvin tells about how he discovered someone that decided to run every street in Toronto as a pandemic project, all 10,000. Alvin starts planning on running all the streets in Moncto...

Tonight's special guest is Andrea Kelly, skip of Team New Brunswick and bronze medalist at this year's Scotties Tournament of Hearts that was held in Thunder Bay Ontario. Andrea gives us a quick description of how curling works and how many players are on a team. In 2005 Andrea and her junior team won the provincials and went on to the nationals that were held in Fredericton, the support Andrea an...

Tonight our special guest is John Rasmussen, John represents Canada for world triathlon events and he is trying to make it to the 2024 Summer Olympics. John tells us about how he got started in triathlons, a very interesting story indeed. We are told that John's parents were very supportive of everything he wanted to try out at a young age. Starting out at the age of 9, even in his first race John...

Tonight our very special guest is John Dallaire from Moncton NB. We jump right into the interview when Diane asks him about his commitment to running a marathon while at a New Year's Eve party, very interesting. John goes on to tell us that he has run around 40 marathons and he has run with his wife, daughter and son, John says those are always the best runs. John also tells us about how important...

Tonight our very special guest is Wade lightheart, someone I have been great friends with for close to 40 years. Wade starts off by talking to us about his memories from when he used to play hockey and what it was that motivated him to keep on playing. Wade also tells us some of the valuable lessons he learned from playing hockey such as it's the work you put in behind the scene that makes a massi...

Tonight in part2 of Colin's episode we discuss a wide range of things, everything from diet and nutrition to cheat meals and what to do to help with cravings. We chat about Colin's go-to after a long run and what he likes and it may surprise you. We chat about supplements and how Colin uses them to help him keep in shape. Colin tells us that he does take Gatorade from about every second water stop...

Tonight, in part 1, we bring Colin McQuade back to our podcast to talk more about Colin and see what makes him motivated. The marathon is what gets Colin up and running, he talks about his injuries and how he handles them as marathon season gets closer. We discuss what he uses for fuel as he runs his very fast marathon pace and how much of that fuel he needs. We also talk about some dos and don'ts...

Simon Boudreau is Back for the second part of his podcast episode and we pick up where we left off. Simon is telling us about the swim group he is on and how the social aspect of this group helps him to stay in shape and motivated. We ask Simon about his bike ride across all 480 Km of New Brunswick with his friend Jesse and how the entire event came about and how they got in shape for this epic ch...

Tonight we speak with Simon Boudreau and he is absolutely motivated to move. In the Summer of 2020, Simon had his own podcast episode titled Where's the Chicken Broth! a great listen and the link is below. In part one we chat about how he wanted to do and did do Ironman and Triathlons and the path he took. We get into his moving and training at a local gym and set a goal of 1000 pounds. Deadlift,...

Tonight we welcome someone back to our podcast to talk about the upcoming Medavie Moncton Running Festival. Colin McQuade was instrumental in starting up Moncton's Resurgo marathon back in 2019. After 2 years of cancellations, the marathon is back with a very cool twist. It is now a 2-day event, September 10th and 11th with all kinds of things going on. We talk about people wanting to get out ther...

Tonight we welcome Danny Jardine back to our podcast, and if you want to check out more about Danny go to our episode #45. Danny has been very active even with the Winter not being favourable to outdoor activities. He has been running, trail running, skating and much more just to keep it fresh and to keep up with many forms of exercise for both the mind and body. Danny talks about running one of t...

This evening we have the great pleasure of speaking with Genevieve Lalonde, a truly elite athlete who's home town is right here in Moncton NB. For anyone that has been living under a large boulder for several years, I will name off a few points about Genevieve. She recently competed for Canada at the Tokyo Olympics in the 3000-meter Steeplechase, finishing 11th in some extreme conditions. In 2019...