Tag: longest night run

  • Walking in the Night

    If you’re keen on walking during the Longest Night, here’s a nice little route for exploring both the darkness and the surprising light of the night in Steinbach. It’s not too late to sign up. Consider joining us Dec 21-22. Register and get details here.

  • Longest Night Run

    Here’s where we’ll be spending our time in just a few weeks, from sunset Dec 21 to sunrise Dec 22. The Longest Night Run will again be observed during the longest night of the year. These streets hold memories from the past seven years. In a few weeks we will add another layer of memories.…

  • Blessing for the Longest Night

    At the start of one of the first Longest Night Runs, my friend Shannon sent this blessing from Jan Richardson. The following year I taped it to my garage wall where I’d return hourly during my night-long run to refuel. As I’ve flipped through the various quotes and poems around the topic of darkness this…

  • Longest Night Run 2022 Recap

    For five years we’ve spent the winter solstice running through the night. In our community, the calendar has become marked by the Longest Night Run overnight relay, each of the 16 hours of darkness a reminder of past hours and miles spent together in the cold dark. We’ve remembered the joys as well as the…

  • Longest Night Run 2022

    The Longest Night Run 2022 is now ready for sign-up. Register here. Get all the info on our website here. As I wrote to past participants today, even as the days shorten, an anticipation grows as we approach Dec 21, and the longest night of the year. The longest night of the year has now…

  • Looking out the window

    Churches and trainsThey all look the same to me nowThey shoot you some placeWhile we ache to come home somehow – Gregory Alan Isakov, Amsterdam Linford of Over the Rhine said, “Letters are good for discussing the weather. Almost anything that can be glimpsed out a window fits well into a letter.” I think this…

  • The Long Night and the Dawn

    “No matter how long or dark the night, no matter the pain, or how difficult is is to go on, you can’t stop the dawn.” – Ashleigh, Jan 10, 2021 A couple weeks ago we lost a dear friend. Ashleigh was a shining example of being light in the darkness, showing how light wins when…

  • The Year of the Fun Run

    When race cancellation emails began to fill runners’ inboxes in early 2020, causing a primary running and training motivator to fizzle, everyone was forced to look for those alternative motivations to keep moving forward. For several years I’d been finding “running as art” a good motivator for getting out the door daily (those RunHaiku won’t…

  • Longest Night Run 2020: Recap

    At 4:29pm on Dec 21, the sun set on the longest night of the year. In Steinbach, the gray sky hardly blinked as it slowly faded to deeper shades of grey, and the street lights slowly took over lighting the streets of town. And as the darkness settled in, we began to run. The weeks…

  • Eight sleeps

    Eight sleeps left till The Longest Night Run! We’ve been encouraged by all of you who have signed up so far, along with the stories of why you’ll be braving the night. And we’re so grateful for the generosity of those who have donated, it’s beautiful to see a community come together to support our…