Category: running & adventure

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

  • 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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  • Backyard: Start Line

    Sunday Runday and my usual social weekend run date has turned into a solo expedition from my backyard. But training calls, and has little respect for blips in the calendar like global pandemics and provincial lockdowns and excuses about being stuck in one’s own backyard. Knowing a convincing distance run (by which I really mean

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