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Awesome news! I’ve been given a clean bill of health by the docs and just have to undergo a bunch of cancer screening tests over the next few years to confirm it hasn’t come back. I think I’ll be fine though since the cancer was caught early and didn’t have a chance to spread. Early […] More

At this moment I am sitting on the couch watching the new Netflix series, Break Point, which chronicles what life is like on the professional tennis tour. While watching this, I’m becoming convinced that it doesn’t matter what sport it is, these types of documentaries are always fascinating. The way the producers, directors, and camera […] More

UPDATE: Km’s run: 2676.5 Donations raised: $7814.70 Current Charity: Neurosurgery Kids Fund http://www.neurosurgerykids.com Throughout their time in school, all of my kids have been tasked with building a leprechaun trap in their art classes. The last time this happened with my youngest, we were speculating on what we would wish for. Of course, the usual […] More

UPDATE: Kms run: 2,3210.75 Donations Raised: $6438.08 Current Charity: Our House Edmonton Before I get into the latest update, big shout out to Dave Proctor of Okotoks, AB who is getting to the tail end of his attempt to run across Canada. He started out on May 15 at the Terry Fox Memorial in St. […] More

I’m 44 years old and I’ve been born and raised in the City of Edmonton or surrounding area my whole life and thought I knew the borders. It turns out that I actually didn’t and when I started this I assumed Edmonton was everything within the Anthony Henday ring road and also including a few […] More

I’m happy to say that I’m nearly complete the Southeastern portion of Edmonton. I’m really impressed with some of the newer neighborhoods that are being built here and the shift in attention to parks and trails by urban planners. You can really tell that green spaces are being looked at as integral in the construction […] More

Well, they have officially arrived. The really cold temperatures that we love as Edmontonians are finally here and will be on and off for the next 3 months or so. It’ll come as no surprise to anybody who knows me that I dislike winter immensely but I just deal with it and try to look […] More

Well, here we are! A full 52 week cycle completed! It almost worked out that one year in coincided with 100 runs and 1000kms which are both a less than my expectations, but I’m secretly relieved that those numbers are where they are. For a while in the spring I was getting awfully pesimistic about […] More

Eastbound on Anthony Henday near 50st More

Who else loves the Olympics? If I could take two weeks off and just sit in front of the tv and watch all the events, I would totally do it. Summer or Winter doesn’t matter, they are both equally as great and I love how they are so good at showcasing amateur sports that normally […] More

It’s been a while since I posted an update on here and that was the case for a couple of reasons. Anybody that follows the site would have noticed that I had a significant drop in my mileage over the last couple of months starting at the beginning of April. I wrote briefly about it […] More