-
How to Plan a Local Adventure
So you’re stuck at home during travel restrictions but still need something exciting to do close to home. I don’t know where you live, but adventure lurks nearby if you know how to plan for it. Choose Your Activity I needed a good excuse to keep running… …but, last year as the pandemic restrictions ramped
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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