A Summary of Summer Races

March 31 2019!!! So apparently this has been sitting in my "draft" file for many many MANY months. I can't carry on and proceed with 2019 race write ups and adventure/life lesson posts without getting this out of my draft box and into the universe. So here it is: A "summer" of races all leading up …

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Chuckanut 50K

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somwhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. - Chriss Jami, Killosophy Chuckanut 50K, the official start of my 2018 race …

My First Ultra: Squamish 50 miler

12:24:19
My official finish time.
It's taken me months to process it and I don't even know what emotion I was feeling as I crossed that finish line. I want to say it was overwhelming joy and gratitude and thankfulness to have finished the race so successfully for my first ultra... but the primary emotion was mostly gratefulness to not have to run a single step further? Relief?!!! I want to say that I was ecstatic. And I was. But it took a few minutes to sink in... months actually. And now when I look back, it's an overwhelming mix of gratitude, joy, pride, thankfulness, humility...


Picture Perfect Panorama Ridge

August 2, 2017 For the last several weeks... many parts of our beautiful country were smothered in a thick blanket of smoke and ash as forest fires devastated many beautiful forests across the province... We were advised to stay indoors as much as possible and to definitely not participate in heavily physical outdoor activity. However, …

A life in motion…

Motion is life! running up a hill - powerful in motion... the freedom of flying and ease of running downhill... fearless in motion.

Muscle MLK photoshoot

May 29, 2017 I always knew I wanted a shot at modelling.... just kidding. But when an opportunity came up to run for a Muscle MLK Canada photo shoot with some of my faves from the Abby Trail Running Club... I was so excited to join the fun!!! Promoting running - especially trail running and …