What is your history with sports and athletics?
I first started playing hockey when I was 6. I went on to play baseball, lacrosse, track and field, volleyball, basketball, triathlon, and ultra running.
What do you enjoy most about being an athlete?
I’ve played team sports, but I enjoy individual sports more because I’m in control of the outcome. I love the feeling of accomplishment from putting in time and effort.
I am incredibly thankful for triathlon. I am accomplishing things I never thought possible, improving my mental toughness and my physical ability. I’ve made friends from around the world.
My greatest accomplishment was qualifying for, and crossing the finish line at Ultraman World Championships in 2019. I was able to do this through Ultraman Canada four months prior.
Have you experienced any challenges or obstacles?
My biggest challenge was, and still is, funding these incredible experiences. I have some sponsors that help, which I am thankful and grateful for.
I have been blessed with being injury free to this point. I have been smart with increasing distance and time. My wife and kids have been incredibly understanding with my training. It takes communication, planning and sacrifice for things to fall into place. My wife knows that rest and recovery is just as important as the training itself, which helps A LOT.
What is your “why?”
My why is something that I sometimes have a hard time articulating to some people. Some don’t understand and that’s okay, It’s for me live, not make them understand.
I have an inner fire that wants to push my limits to see where my mind and body will take me. I want to prove to myself that whatever I put my mind to, I can achieve. On my deathbed I want to be able to say I gave everything I had, and not have regrets that “I could’ve,” or “I should’ve.” I am able bodied, with no limitations.
I see two lines. Start lines, finish lines. The goal is to cross both. What you do in between is up to you.
What is your favorite training gear or equipment?
I love riding my Dimond. I could ride all day.
What’s next?
Future goals are to do a double anvil, triple anvil, and run more ultramarathons.
Long term goals are to continue racing ultra distance events, whether it’s running or triathlon.
I also want to ride across Canada raising money/awareness for kids charities.
Any fun facts about yourself?
I ran my first ultramarathon (50 miles/80.46 km) when I was 17. I was told I was the youngest in Canada to complete an ultramarathon. I set a Canadian record for fastest 50 miles, age 21 years and younger with a time of 7 hrs 58 min.
Do you have any advice for someone interested in getting started?
Whatever you do, do it with passion, then it won’t feel like work or a job. Do it because you enjoy the challenge.
Any other comments or stories you’d like to share?
My Dad was always giving me good advice. He said, “work hard, put in the time and effort and do it consistently. The right people will notice.”
When I was 9 years old, my Mom passed away on May 17, 1981. Five months later, my Dad and I were watching Kona Ironman on TV. I said to him, “How cool it would be to race there,” and he said to me, “Someday Tim, someday.” Not knowing where Kona is, what a triathlon was or the distances involved.
In 2004, my Dad was sick in the hospital. I said to him he has to fight, he has to come watch me race. His response to me was the same phrase he said to me 23 years earlier “Someday Tim, someday.”
Great story. How many miles domyou run with that tire and why is itmgood to run with a tire?
I run with Shadow minimum distance is 10 km.
Longest is 22.32 km.
2 other routes I have are 15+km and 19+km.
When you run you’re working your feet, Achilles, calves, hip flexors, thighs, hamstrings, back.
When your body begins to fatigue, your form goes to crap.. But with Shadow, you fatigue faster, which in turn, you’re strengthening your form sooner. Also, it forces you to run-if you stop running you almost come to a complete stop, then it’s harder to get going agin to gain your momentum.
Hope this answers your question.