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Stewards of the Trails
While volunteering as a course marshal at a local trail race yesterday, I stood in the same spot in the woods for nearly three and a half hours. Much of that time was spent clapping and cheering and directing racers away from a detour where the path had naturally washed out near the river bank.
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Marshalling Report: Five Peaks
Sunday Runday and rather than lacing up to run this morning, I instead bundled up warm and packed my lawn-chair down to the local dog park where I’d signed up to volunteer to help out with the sixteen kilometre-long 5 Peaks Trail Race. The 5 Peaks series is a race that I’ve tackled myself multiple
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Running into Spring
Sunday Runday, the first day of spring, and yet when we stepped out into the last few hours of winter air this morning it was blowing and cold as if winter was reminding us that we all lived on the Canadian prairies and we don’t get to simply up and decide that the chill has
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Cross Country
Last July, right smack dab in the middle of 2021, one of my running friends suggested that a few of us sign up for a race. This wasn’t unusual. We sign up for races all the time, and even many virtual races lately. This race was a big one, though. A year-long virtual team run
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Race Report: Disney World 2022
Sunday Runday, and just over a week after rolling through the finish line of three Florida Disney World races, I did a (socially distanced) ten klick run back with the crew through the icy streets of Edmonton. Amazing. Crazy. Chaotic. Nostalgic. Insane. What other words can one use to describe the first international mega race
Category: running & adventure
My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.