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Terry Fox-ish
Every year on this weekend for a generation Canadians go for a run. Forty years ago a young man named Terry Fox, long since deservedly held up as a national hero, attempted to run east to west across the country. He was in remission from cancer, and had lost a leg to it, but set
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It’s All About the Trail Shoes
Sunday Runday and with less than two weeks until my first in-person race in over a year and a half I found myself facing a morning run dilemma. New shoes. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining about new shoes. Quite the opposite. While on vacation in the mountains a few weeks ago I finally
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Runner en Route
Sunday Runday, and the day slipped away from me. I plodded out a ten kilometer loop in the wee hours of the morning, running with the same trusty group of friends who have kept me company through a summer of adventure running and virtual race training. Yet over the summer something silly and spontaneous happened
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Hobbling and Hurting
Sunday Runday, and it’s been a couple weeks since I sat down to write a post. It is a summer break for me, after all, and I’ve been out on the road, in the mountains, on the lake, and … as the topic of this post will soon reveal, running through the wilderness. In fact,
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Big Canada
Sunday Runday and I waited until today to finally make a big blogging deal about the latest running adventure in which I’ve signed up to participate. I’ve been sitting on it for a couple weeks and have been excited to post about it. In fact, shortly after I wrote about running inspiration and alluded to