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Camping: Of Annual Adventures Gone Awry
It’s Travel Tuesday and once again I’m reminded of the challenge of living through a global pandemic and a life dismantled by a thousand small cuts. You see, each year with — the exception of last year — we usually go camping with a small group of families. Eight adults. The same number of too-rapidly-growing-up
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Virtual Race Season, Take Two. Maybe.
Sunday Runday, and on our morning ten kilometer trail run everyone seem to want to talk racing season. Except there is no racing season. Twenty-twenty-one is a racing write off. Or… it would be if it wasn’t for virtual races. Virtual racing. Oh, those virtual races. And why? Last year as the pandemic picked up
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The Mystery of Big Island (Part One)
I had other writing plans this morning, but a mystery has been unravelling in my own backyard that has piqued and diverted my interest for an upcoming summer of potential exploration. Backstory. I live near the mighty North Saskatchewan River, a twelve hundred and eighty-seven kilometer long ribbon of glacial water that flows, stretches and
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Local Adventures: Social Distancing at Spray Lakes
International travel is still something that hasn’t quite come back to normal, but fortunately we happen to live in a province of Canada that has it’s share of tourist destinations. We’re spending some more there time over spring break returning to the spot where we took our first local pandemic weekend getaway back in July
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How should you dress to run in spring thaw conditions?
Here in the western prairies of Canada winter is usually a deep, frozen trio of months shouldered by an unpredictable autumn at the front end and a sloppy, scattered mess of thawing weather on the tail. It’s Sunday, Runday, and this morning we ran a ten kilometer spring run through that some of that scattered
Category: running & adventure
My sport involves feet and trails and moving one quickly across the other.