works of wanderlust

Category: running & adventure

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

  • Winter Reprise Surprise Run

    Sunday Runday, and yesterday morning I did some work in the yard, took the dog for a lovely spring walk, sat in the grass, cleaned up some flower beds, and generally enjoyed the spring. This morning we met for a run on icy sidewalks and through ankle-deep snow. These woodpecker winter days are nothing too

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  • Edmowood

    Community spirit comes in many different shapes and sizes. Sometimes it comes in the shape and size of a larger-than-life travelling sign that shows up mysteriously in parks around the city. ED – mō – wo͝od A nonsense name and (I assume) a portmanteau of the name of our city “Edmonton” and the name of

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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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