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My Longest Distance
I have had the idea of running the distance of 100 kilometers in one go rolling around in my head for the past few years. It has always been elusive. Yet in the same time, it has always been within...
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The 2021 Great Virtual Run Across Tennessee: So What’s Next?
It was a beautiful early August morning here in Ontario, Canada. I was really looking forward to returning to Copeland Forest for a time of running, hiking and photography. I really try to do my...
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The 2021 Revised Salomon Summit 700. It Became the Challenge I Was After.
It was Friday September 24th, and the day before my Salomon Summit 700 trail race at Blue Mountain, Canada. The strangest words spilled out of my mouth as I shared with my wife. “I have no desire to...
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Trying to Overcome an 11+ Year DNF at Pick Your Poison X11
The Great American distance runner Frank Shorter once said: “You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.” New research suggests Shorter is...
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Running the Inaugural 96k Rainbow Run Trail Race
The Rainbow Run Trail is found in Earl Rowe Provincial Park near the town of Alliston, Ontario. The trail is named after the fish specie called Rainbow Trout that run up the Boyne River in springtime...
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Celebrating Earth Day at the OUTrace Spring Warm Up Fun Run
When Kathy, the race director of the new trail race series North of 89 verbally gave us group of runners course directions for the OUTrace Spring Warm Up Fun Run, it all seemed pretty straight...
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Pick Your Poison 13 Race Recap.
After such a long day running up and down those challenging hills of Horseshoe Highlands and Copeland Forest in the all day cold, drizzly rain in the 2023 Pick Your Poison trail race, 58 year old 50k...
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Some Unfinished Business: The 96k 2023 Rainbow Run Trail Race
I’m sure you have heard the idiom that “Every picture tells a story”. It means that “what has really happened in a situation is clear because of the way that someone or something looks”. My friendly...
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Return of the Creemore Vertical Challenge
The Creemore Vertical Challenge has an extremely special place in my heart. On August 8th, 2015 I ran the 25k distance. The course was described as 50% trail, 50% country road and almost no cliffs. It...
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Pick Your Poison 14
The 14th running of the Pick Your Poison Trail Race was held on April 27, 2024 at the Heights of Horseshoe, Ontario Canada. It is a very popular race with distances of 12.5 kilometers, 25 kilometers...
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