A Brief Biography

I am born and raised in Saskatchewan.  Small town and farm life was most of my upbringing.  A near death occurrence in my grade 8 year led me into running.  I started with the help of my school coach and after progressing quickly was referred to a club in Regina Saskatchewan.  The coach was the late Dr. Steve Gersten and the club was the Regina Harriers.  I continued to improve and excel both in track and cross country.  After a successful high school running career I had thought that was it for competitive running.  I was now in the working world and so I started a new path.  This one was not as bright as my previous one.  For many years I made bad choices.  I was very overweight, ballooning out to almost 300lbs at my biggest.  I was drinking and doing drugs daily and living a sedentary lifestyle.  This was cause for bad relationships and just overall bad health.  In 2016 I had finally started to change my ways.  I lost weight as the year went.  I was running a little bit.  And then I tore an Achilles tendon.  This humbled me.  I was doing a workout I shouldn't've been doing and I knew it.  The injury was my reward for not training in a proper fashion.  It then took me 6 months from injury date to be able to walk normal again.  I did my own rehab and educated myself on what I needed to get back to normal, or at least my new normal.  I thought my running days were over... Till late 2018 when I chose to not accept that fate.  I spent time educating myself and in Feb of 2019 my transformation started.  I was back down to 225lbs on my first day.  In just over 2 months I dropped 55lbs and was running again.  I didn't stop.  In fact, 8 months from that start date I ran over 70km in a blizzard just to prove to myself I can do anything.  I now take the philosophy into all my life that all I need is knowledge drive and consistency to achieve.  I now have the knowledge and after a few years of ultra marathoning I felt I could do more for my running community.  I got run coach trained and certified thru RRCA.  In early 2024 I expanded my knowledge base to better help my customers and obtained my Personal Trainer Certification through ISSA, and here I am waiting to help train you to reach new goals.