Category: running & adventure

My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.

  • 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…

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  • Turtle Power

    Sunday runday and on my solo five klick shakeout I paused beside path to watch a turtle the size of a football basking in Florida sunshine. Also, it was nearly fifty degrees celsius warmer than the last time I ran oudoors a little more than a week ago. I haven’t been that sweaty from running…

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  • Adventure Runs Season Two

    I may have written earlier this year about how I’ve spent each of the last two summers devising a weekly run outing for my running crew. Each week over about fourteen weeks of summer we would meet at a location I’d disclosed earlier in the day for a six to eight klick run. It could…

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  • Interesting Places

    Depending on how the rest of my holiday-countdown week shapes up, how the holiday break happens (or not), and a couple of pandemic-related decisions that have yet to be made get sorted, going out on the winter trails last night for a six klick run in the falling snow may have marked my last run…

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  • Pathfinding & Found Paths

    Sunday Runday and we should have known better than to go onto the icy trails after an overnight snowfall less than a week after an ice storm. But the sun was peeking over the eastern horizon and lighting up the December sky in all sorts of pretty colours, so the ice seemed like a temporary…

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