#100happdays – Day 5
Happy runners in our workshops! It’s great to see our runners come out and reach their goals at Running Free Newmarket.
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
#100happdays -Day 4 Tuckered out Pups
#100happydays Day 4 – Pinte and Pabst get a little carried away playing so it is always a calmer afternoon if they get to run in the forest! They love it and so do we! We’re all happy!
#100happydays with Pabst
#100happdays with Pint
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#100happydays – Day 3 Running together at Scanlon
#100happydays day 3 found us running in the forest at Scanlon Creek. What a beautiful day for a trot through the forest, the bugs weren’t awake yet and the trail was soft. A great feeling after pounding the roads all winter.
We always seem to run into something or someone interesting. Today it was Wayne the painter. Wayne had his easel set up on one of the trails, capturing the beautiful spring colors. It was great to stop and chat with him and capture a selfie!
#100happydays – Day 3 a selfie by the “Leaning Tree” and meeting Wayne the Painter
#100happdays – Day 2 Day-Trip
On a day-trip to Midland and the Wye Marsh – past the Midland Legion and thought of my Sister! Mean while my Sister was having a wonderful romp in the wood with her happy dogs!
#100happydays – Day 2 – Happy dogs and a great run in the forest,
#100happydays – found the Midland Legion for my Sister!
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#100happdays
We are joining the thousands who are sharing their #100happdays!
Here is Day 1 – having morning coffee together before starting our busy day! Love it!
Day 1 Enjoying morning coffee together! #100happydays
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Giant’s Rib Raid
What a perfect day for a tromp through the woods with friends. The sun shone, and apparently the wind blew, although we didn’t really feel it sheltered in the trees. Spring flowers were blooming and the orienteering began.
Our team of 3 for the race
The Giant’s Rib Raid is put on by Don’t Get Lost and is a 22-26 Km orienteering trail race on the Niagara Escarpment. This year’s race started near Kilbride Ontario. It involves a lot of technical running and a compass so you “don’t get lost!” We love running the Bruce Trail. The race started at Kelso Conservation Area and proceeded through Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area, Crawford Lake Conservation Area and wound its way down to Kilbride. Of course we didn’t know any of this until we picked up our maps the day of the race.
Here we are meeting another team in the race at a CP.
We had to add to our team name include our 3rd teammate (the rules call for teams of three) so the Blister Sisters and the Bandage took off running.
We did great on the first 6 CP’s (check points) but CP 7 gave us a run for the money, we were so close, but we just couldn’t find it. After deciding that we really need to do a navigation course and learn how to use our trusty compass with a map, we bushwhacked on to CP 8 & 9 only to find out that CP 7 was also CP 10. Well, we found CP 10, no problem!
Brook’s Cascadia! Love them!
More bushwhacking ensued to try to stomp our way out of the bush. The ice storm of the fall of 2013 did a lot of damage to the bush and I don’t think I found 2 square meters that didn’t have a downed tree or a cord of branches on it.
Check points were everywhere. Too much fun!
Time was running short so we ran the trails through Crawford Lake, until we saw the beautiful carvings that are near the lake. Picture taking took a few minutes off our time. The next part of the trail was particularly rocky and beautiful, by then we were really behind so our non-competitive spirit took advantage of us and we chose to just enjoy the rest of the race.
Next year we’ll be back and perhaps have a handle on the whole compass thing.
Awesome trail running and climbing!
The Giant Rib Raid is coming up!
We have been diligently training for another event – The Giant Rib Raid! This is a team of 3 event so we talked Jean Corner, our Brooks rep into coming along for the fun. Stay tune for our race report.
In the mean time check out the Giant’s Rid Raid at the Don’t Get Lost website.
Awesome trails at Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area. It’s a fuzzy picture but this is what the trails look like with our out glasses!
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Blister Sister Adventure Race Team 