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Lakeland Circuit Review: Gorgeous, Gritty, and Worth It
I just returned from a three-day loop on the Lakeland Canoe Circuit in northeastern Alberta—a stunning, remote, and often underappreciated backcountry canoe route. It’s Alberta’s only official canoe circuit, and while it offers a good mix of challenge and serenity, let’s just say it could use a little love in a few spots. We launched…
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Running with the Saints: day 30
We are a month into this adventure and I’m taking the day off again. I’ll fall another 20 kilometers behind. Sundays are generally my rest day. I find myself simultaneously grateful and irritated when reading Bartlett’s record. A man was shot Bartlett, but I am left without a name, or even whether that shooting was…
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Centering on Christ: From Canada to the United States
It appears that my Dad has been only posting about running so I figured I would break up the running pains he’s been sharing with a post of my own about moving to the United States. In late December of 2018, I was kneeling at the foot of my bed in the basement of my…
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The easiest 100 miles.
My goal with the Oldman Backyard Ultra was to complete 24 yards. This would make it my first, and maybe my last, 100 miles. I attempted and failed a 100 mile race in 2023, the Sinister 7. It wasn’t the distance that ended that attempt but a mismanagement of my electrolytes over the notorious leg…
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Bowron Chain 2022 – Day 1
Day 1 #highlights from my personal journal – August 1 This is a big family trip. My whole family (6), my sister Alison’s whole family (5), My sister Robyn and her husband Ted, My brother-in-law Matt and his daughter (my niece) Vivian. A total of 15 people ranging in age from 5 to 50, in…
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