Category: running & adventure

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

  • On Detours

    Sunday Runday and it felt a little like old times as we plodded through busy spring trails, dodging bikes, dog-walkers, and fellow runners along the river valley trails. A few of the run crew have found themselves in an urgent training predicament. With the local restrictions lifting quickly and thoroughly, an ultramarathon that most figured

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  • June Mountain Travel Runs

    It’s the first day of June and as spring officially trickles into its waning days, I couldn’t help but flip through some old local travel photos and recall how June once… sometimes… began for me for a few consecutive years as the week of the most epic travel race I’ve ever run. For four years

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  • One Part Perspiration, One Part Inspiration

    It’s Sunday Runday and I slogged out another solo ten kilometer run this morning as I await the official lifting of a few of those pandemic restrictions later this week. And though I should have spent yesterday afternoon running twenty-five klicks through some local trails, I found I struggled more than usual this morning just

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  • Intersecting Lines and Paths

    Sunday Runday and on my nine kilometer trek through the asphalt ribbons of my neighbourhood I once again ran solo through the spring sunshine. Except I didn’t, not really. I kicked off along the long curved edge of the park near my house and dodged and passed a familiar face walking her puppy on a

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  • Weekend Walking Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary

    The Canadian prairies have a long and storied history that has been felt through the countless ecosystem changes in flora and fauna, and punctuated by the lives and actions of a handful of various peopled cultures that have lived and settled here for some recent thousands of years. I state it in this particular way

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