65Km Trail Trial in the Charlevoix (My First ULTRA)
Good day friends! Sometimes, you just have to take a chance on a race because it looks cool. Such was the case when I decided to head to the Charlevoix region of Quebec from the newly-minted...
View ArticleTrailing Off for 100km
Good day all. An interesting thing happens when you start to do more and more endurance events. You can't stop. If someone dangles a challenge out in front of you, you snap it up. You don't do it for...
View ArticleStaring down the Stairs in Ithaca
Welcome back race fans. Two weeks ago I lined up at the start line of the Cayuga Trails 50 Mile race for the second time. This is notable in some respects, as I VERY rarely repeat 'away' races. I ran...
View ArticleSpontaneous Trail Triumph
My trail running race season had wrapped up. It was time to turn my focus to winter sports. So why then did I find myself on a Thursday night hitting 'register' for a 50k trail race in 2 days? Some...
View ArticleReturn to Racing Form at QMT100
Good day friends! Well, after the last unsuccessful race outing (in my mind anyway), it’s time to put that in the past and look at another race I took part in. This would be my first long ultra of the...
View ArticleStaring Down the Stairs in Ithaca
Fresh off the heels of my successful running of the 100k Quebec Mega Trail, and leading up to my next major race of the year (the Canadian Death Race), I decided I wanted to keep the momentum going by...
View ArticleBeating Death the Hard Way
The Canadian Death Race. What does the name of this event conjure up in your minds? Well, as you may guess, it isn’t a stroll through a lovely forest trail, I can assure you of that much! To my...
View ArticlePlaying the Long Game at my Season Closing Race
Holy cow is this post late!! Here I sit in the cold winds of January typing out a race report for a race that I took part in almost 3 months ago! You may be asking yourself why I’m so tardy with this...
View ArticleA Race with No End…
Building off the relative success I had a few weeks earlier at the Raid Pulse 8 hour adventure race, I decided that it might be time to put the ankle to a real test and sign up for a real trail running...
View ArticleCowboy up for the Black Spur Ultra
Welcome back to another race report from ActiveSteve! This time, we find ourselves heading to the beautiful Kimberley Alpine Resort for the 108km solo Black Spur Ultra. After having taken on both the...
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