Tag: Steinbach

  • 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.…

  • Walking Distance

    “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”– Steven Wright I read this quote a few years ago, and in my memory attributed it to Thoreau. If Thoreau said it, of course, it was automatically profound. Now Thoreau did write a book called Walking, and did have profound things to say on the topic,…

  • Bush Farm + Abe’s Hill

    Many think the life of a doodle-map-maker is mostly fun and games, but in fact it requires unparalleled patience and dedication. This map is the product of 3-4 hours of weekly research, braving wind, rain, and snow drifts over several years.  Now good luck finding that secret strava segment. 

  • The Plaque on the Rock

    This is the story of a plaque. And a rock. Maybe it’s a kind of a love story. This rock (sans plaque) was featured on the route of the recent Barkman Marathons, but this story began about five years ago. The original plaque made an appearance on the blog in 2019.

  • Public Poetry on a Friday Night

    Join us Friday, April 21, 7:30pm at The Public in Steinbch for some poetry! I’m excited to hear words from some incredible local poets, including Sarah Ens and Luann Hiebert and others! I’m also honoured to be able to share some words of my own. We’ll be bringing back the Beer Haiku challenge for big…

  • Barkman Marathons

    If the ultrarunning world’s annual obsession with the Barkley Marathons shows us anything, it’s that people love running around with their friends while looking for books. On Saturday, April 15, 2023, in the spirit of Barkley, a new comunity- and book-loving event is being hosted in the most unlikely of locations, Steinbach MB. Organized by…

  • 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…

  • Mennonite Marathon: The Peace Trail

    Not everything automatically becomes a tradition. You can do a thing once, have a good time (or not), then never do it ever again. There’s no such thing as a “first annual”, you need a second to make it an annual affair. Back in 2020, when we were all going stir-crazy and making up our…

  • 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…