InnerVoice

Kara Goucher is an advocate for clean sport and thoughtfully shares her views on why clean sport matters.

Summer (Cook) Rappaport was a dual-sport athlete at Villanova University and is currently chasing her dream to represent the USA in Triathlon at the 2020 Olympic Games.

I finished 23rd at the 2018 Canadian Cross-Country Championships in Kingston. It's been nine years since I last raced this event. On paper, it was my worst finish ever, but for me, it's my most memorable.  Many years ago, Steve Boyd told me he wanted to host the Nationals in K...

My name is Brice, I'm 19 years old, and I'm an addict. I have a story that I feel might be worth sharing in more detail. I don't really know where to begin, but I know where to go: to help you if you are in a similar situation to the one I once was. So here goes… I remember th...

I grew up in Ontario as the youngest of four kids. I have an older brother and two big sisters, so I wore hand-me-downs until I was fifteen. I’m ninety-nine percent positive that to my siblings I was their annoying little sister, but to me they were my partners in crime, my ro...

In 1997, my mother, Amanda, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her long and difficult battle with cancer is what inspired me to open the original Dempsey Center. For the first time in my life, I was exposed to wellness centers, integrative and complementary medicine, and thera...

I was 15-years-old when I entered my first race. On that day the swim was in a pool, so it felt fitting when I ended my career with a pool-swim at Major League Triathlon in Charlotte on October 6, 2018. For a long time, I've made a living by pushing the pace and playing to my ...

Lauren, You are celebrating your 13th birthday on a rainy Vancouver day in November, 2001. You are playing in your favourite soccer tournament, the Remembrance Day tournament: seven-a-side games held on full fields, which means even more running than usual.  You can’t understa...

When I was growing up there was still a National Service in the German Army. I joined a mountain battalion in Bavaria, and I found out that they had a professional skiing team. I did the testing and got accepted to the team, which meant 12 months of mountain biking, climbing, ...