When Rob came up the other day to run with me, he brought an envelope filled with letters that his grade 1-6 students had written. I wanted to share a few and he said that was okay. Although the letters are addressed to me and talk about the run across Canada, I have two brief […]
My legs had no interest in helping me finish 6 marathons in 7 days today. At the end of yesterday’s run, my IT Band had flared up again. I spent last night and most of this morning rolling it out on the floor of the RV. I feel bad for Sarah… she’s lying in bed […]
Remember the movie Groundhog Day? Bill Murray’s character was stuck in the same day, repeated over and over again. I sort of wish today could be one of those days for me, as it was definitely a day to remember. I got to run with four incredible people… and came away from the day with […]
Yesterday’s highlight of a day off entailed transferring my laundry from the washer to the dryer and realizing I had forgotten to add detergent to both loads! Oh well… I’m sure my running clothes are less stinky than they’ve been for the past two weeks. We chatted with the couple who ran the laundromat and […]
[blockquote size=”full|half|third|fourth|two-thirds|three-fourths” align=”left|right” byline=”Jill Bolte Taylor”]Your body is the life force power of some fifty trillion molecular geniuses. You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world.[/blockquote] I’ll admit that I’m not functioning at an alert level right now. I’m tired and need my bed, no […]
[blockquote size=”full” align=”left|right” byline=”Irwin Kula”]Enough is not simply about being satisfied with what we have, it’s about feeling the fullness of the partial.[/blockquote] Although I still have 6500 odd to go, I celebrate the partial of my first 1000 kilometres today! When I first moved to Haliburton to work at YMCA Wanakita, this burly, giant […]
Events over the past 72 hours seem a bit skewed. 3 days ago feels like 3 weeks ago. Mmm… perhaps a slight exaggeration, but you get the point. After missing the ferry by mere minutes, the next one was at midnight – so we were told. In reality, it left at 5 am, so […]
This morning I was the happiest kid in Canada. I ran the last 7 km to the ferry and felt on top of the world. I’m pretty sure I would have attempted my best Leo imitation on top of that ferry! Oh… that ferry… but of course, there’s more to the story! Last night, the […]
It’s been a full day! Perhaps list form would be good, cause I’m tired! Roger, whose house we parked in front of last night, drove Sarah to the shop this morning to get a new belt and then drove me back east to South Branch where I had stopped running. Him and his […]
Colin Harris is living his childhood dream of running across Canada. Along the way, he’s visiting students in over 60 classrooms from St. John’s to Vancouver and encouraging kids to get outside, get active and reconnect with nature. Harris decided to run 7,300 kilometres because he’s an outdoor educator who was growing discouraged with kids […]