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Lap Eat Nap
No Old Tom Backyard for me this year, but I’m excited to be helping out and relive some memories vicariously through friends who will be running loops this year. If you’re a past participant, or lining up for your first backyard, head over to Big Sky for a poster to commemorate that time you signed…
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Birds Hill Trail Series
On Thursday summer nights, a group of runners gather to chase the trails. The Birds Hill Trail Series, hosted by Joel Toews, offers up a great change of pace for the running routine – midweek race (taper?), in the evening (it’ll be how hot? what do I eat??) and short-ish distances (meaning, everyone starts off…
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Wind Sock Hat
Garmin didn’t come to me asking for ideas on gathering real-time running data to help runners achieve their goals, but if they had, this is one (among other) (and for skiing) of the ideas I would have offered. Runners these days put a lot of stock into the numbers, with heart rate monitors, Grade Adjusted…
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Mantario in Winter
I’ve started referring to adventures into the unknown as “experiments”, because it can turn a failure into a success, because learning is the goal. And if learning was the goal, our winter trip to Mantario was a big success. (Seems like adventure and challenge are common themes on Mantario trails, regardless of the season.) This…
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Quarry Oaks
Home to countless adventures over the years both mundane and extraordinary, the ski trails at Quarry Oaks (maintained by Sandilands Ski Club) hold many memories. One of my first memories involves getting lost in a blizzard with Justin at night on the Farm Trail. Then there were the Friday nights during COVID we spent hours…
