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Why I didn’t PR at Race the North Face 2026
Race the North Face is one of those annual reunion races for the Manitoba trailrunning community. So many familiar faces among the 470+ runners, volunteers, and associated friends and family. I had the chance to run the 25k this year for the first time since 2022. I learned lessons back then, and still had more…
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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…
