“My body’s acclimated really well to running and it’s become a part of my training now to where right when I got back home after this last fight, I went back into running,” said Chiasson, who faces Sarah Moras this Saturday in Ottawa. “So this camp has been a lot easier and less taxing on my body just because I’m so acquainted with running so many miles now.”
Thirty miles a week is no joke, though, and when you add in the day’s sessions with the killers at Fortis MMA, she had to have some days when she wondered how she took the path she was on.
“Every now and then I’m like, why am I doing this,” Chiasson laughs. “But it comes with being an athlete and wanting your body to be in the best shape possible, especially in this sport that requires you to be a certain weight. It’s not like I’m running six-minute miles. A lot of it is more of a cool down after a workout or a warm-up before a workout. And that’s the way I look at it.”
