So welcome to RunningHotTakes.com, where we are going to do our best to go fruit cake mode by jamming a bunch of random ingredients into a bowl and baking them into a product that tastes best to a specific segment of the population \u2013in this case athletes and fans of Cross Country and Track & Field. We will do our best to be accountable to the Canadian running community, so feel to reach out with any suggestions. If you haven\u2019t already, check out our mission statement<\/a> OR DON\u2019T. Hopefully this will become a new place for people to more easily find things like training advice; insights into the knowledge and expertise of experienced athletes, academic experts, and athletics professionals; race reviews; course profiles; Canadian Running Series analysis; good faith discussion; and most important of all, FUN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Better go pre-heat those ovens and find some hot tubs to stuff them in because it\u2019s about to get STEAMY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good luck out there (100 emoji).<\/p>\n\n\n\n @RunningHotTakes (Not Trackie) began as a Twitter project that was initiated in the winter of 2017 by a third-year university student who was desperately trying to stay more deeply connected to a sport that, due to various health issues (eating disorders, low-iron, and chronic back pain), had frustrated him time and time again. It was<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/runninghottakes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Not-Trackie-modern.png\")
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