{"id":56724,"date":"2018-10-15T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=56724"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:26:31","slug":"athlete-of-the-week-amy-harkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/athlete-of-the-week-amy-harkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete of the Week: Amy Harkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Harkness loves to run\u2014she has loved it since racing in grade 2\/3 at the age of eight. &#8220;For me, running is about seeing how good I can be. It\u2019s about setting goals and doing everything I can to achieve them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It\u2019s my stress relief and my happy place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She has had many memorable runs, but the Oakville Nutrience 10K on September 30 is one that she will never forget. Harkness ran in the Female 30-39 age category and came across the finish line with a time of 36:34, a personal best that earned her first place in both her age group and for women overall. She also beat the course record.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I have never had a run that just clicked like this one did. It felt amazing from start to finish,&#8221; said Harkness. &#8220;I often get through my speed workouts by picturing myself in a race, pushing to the finish and achieving my goal time, but this time it was real and I knew I was beating my goal. You couldn\u2019t wipe the smile off my face that entire race.&#8221; Her finish line celebration photo shows the joy she felt knowing she did her very best.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already, you may see Harkness focused and training hard on the roads in Huntsville or at Motivations Fitness in preparation for her next goal: a 35-minute 10K. &#8220;I am always dreaming big!&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Harkness has been training with her coach Dr. Lowell Greib from The SportLab to improve her running skills and to be able to run injury-free. &#8220;Amy is a phenomenal runner,&#8221; said Greib. &#8220;She has worked hard in the past couple months on improving her speed and keeping fit and race-ready. Her focus on race day paid off with great achievement. Without question, Amy is one of the fastest runners at this distance in Muskoka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harkness did not achieve this success on her own. 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