Race: The North Face Canadian Death Race - 125km in 24hrs
Date: August Long Weekend Annually - Sat/Sun
Location: Grande Cache, Alberta
Sport: Adventure Running!
Website: http://www.canadiandeathrace.com
“For nearly a decade, elite racers have come to Grande Cache to cheat Death in one of the world’s toughest adventure races. The 125 km course begins and ends on a 4200 foot plateau, passes […]

Event: Angry Seagull 24 hour adventure race
Location: Kincardine to Paisley, Ontario
Date: August 9-10, 2008.
2008 marked the 2nd running of the Angry Seagull 24 hour adventure race.  I was bummed that I didn’t have a chance to participate in last year’s event, and thought that this would be perfect training for Untamed Virginia, a race I […]

Logs, Rocks and Steel
Adventure Race
Saturday July 19 2008   Minden, On
www.logsrocksandsteel.com
First off, I will let you all know that I have officially re-named this race Logs, Rocks and Steel and Mud and Water and Pain and Suffering and Epic and Awesome!  I have only recently added the awesome part as it has been a 2 full […]

Event: RockstAR
Date: July 12, 2008.
Length: 8 hour adventure race
Location: Bark Lake Leadership Centre, near Irondale, Ontario
Verdict: add this one to your calendar for next year!
For a few years now, Mark and Heather Arnold have been putting on a top notch race each June with ESAR.  This year, after joining forces with Sean Roper of STORM events, HARK events have […]

Untamed New England
60 Hour Unsupported Adventure Race
Franconia New Hampshire  June 12-15
www.untamedne.com
Team Breathemag.ca  : Sally Heath, Joel Perella, Pete Dobos and Marcus Olson
This race review is brought to you by the collective madness that is Marcus and Sally!!
A couple of months back Joel Perella, editor of Breathe Magazine  (www.breathemag.ca) came to us with a proposal. Some […]

Race: Ultimate XC – Quebec Edition
Date: Saturday June 21st
Location: Val Morin – Quebec
Sport: Adventure Running!
Website: http://www.ultimatexc.com/quebec.html

What has 4200+ pieces of pink & black polka-dot flagging tape, 12674ft UP! and 12577ft DOWN! ~10km of swamps, ~20km of bushwacking, 42K of ankle-twisting “sorta-trail”, a 300ft icy-black-water beaverdam swim, trail that goes straight up forever..that brings you to […]

 
Name of Race: Untamed New England Adventure Race
Website: http://www.untamedne.com
Date of Race: June 12-15
Location of Race: White Mountains, New Hampshire/Vermont
Type of Event: Adventure Race
Distance/Length of Event: 3 Days, Unsupported
Team Members: Harper Forbes (‘The Captain and Tracker’), Denise Rispolie (‘Public Relations’), James Galipeau (‘Mule’) and John Ranson (‘Waterboy’)
Race report written by John Ranson…
This race experience is just starting […]

I had to go to Vancouver for a conference this past weekend, and with my Saturday free, decided to check out the Get Out There race calendar to see if I could find a race to do (yes, I have a race addiction!).  As luck would have it, the 25 km Iron Knee trail race, […]

Endurance Sports Breakout 24AR
Location: near Muskegon, Michigan
May 24-25, 2008.
As preparation for Untamed New England, which I’m doing with fellow Running Free team member Marcus Olson, a couple of friends and I headed to the far side of Michigan this past weekend to take part in the 2nd annual Endurance Sports Breakout 24 adventure race.  The appeal of this […]

Race Name - Storm the Trent - Trek Elite
Date - May 10, 2008
Description - 8.5 Hour Adventure Race(Paddle, Trail Run, Mountain Bike)
Location - Warsaw
Race web site - http://www.stormevents.ca
SOLD OUT! 
I almost didn’t get into this race as I forgot to register and remembered that I had not registered the week before the race sold out.  The fact that […]

One of my favourite races every year is Storm the Trent. You know Sean Roper is going to give you a great location, with some tricky navigation, and a lot off people to race against. This year, between the 3 races held that day (Hike, Trek and Trek Elite) there were 450 racers. I decided […]

Storm the Trent “Trek Elite” 8 Hour Advanced Course
Saturday May 11th
Warsaw, Ontario
www.stormevents.ca
I was really looking forward to this years Storm the Trent as I had entered my team into the Trek Elite 8-Hour event. After the disaster of the Rib Raid my team was looking for a little redemption in this the 2nd qualifier event […]

FAR High School Adventure Challenge
Sunday May 4th 2008
Deerhurst Resort, Barrie On
www.far.on.ca
For the second year in a row, high school adventure racers from across Ontario gathered at Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka to race the 2008 High School Adventure Challenge put on by Algoma University College and the crew at FAR.  59 teams of 3 had the […]

Race: Frontier Adventure Challenge
Location: Huntsville, Ontario
Date: May 3, 2008.
Length: 8 hours
“My advice to you,” began Geoff Langford at the pre-race meeting for Frontier Adventure Sports & Training’s first race of the season,  “is to jump in the first puddle that you see, but there is no way that anyone is going to stay dry today.”  […]

Name of Race: Odyssey Endorphin Fix
Website: http://www.oarevents.com/event.asp?id=100&catID=1
Date of Race: April 24-27, 2008
Location of Race:  New River Gorge, West Virginia, USA
Type of Event: Adventure Racing
Distance/Length of Event: 3 Days

Team Running Free once again went down to West Virginia to tackle the Endorphin Fix to start out the 2008 season.  Boasting HUGE elevation ascents (42,000ft total) and 300+ km’s the “toughest 2-day […]

Salomon Giant’s Rib Raid
25 km Adventure Run + Orienteering
Rocky Ridge Milton, On
www.dontgetlost.ca/raid
A friend of mine lost a teamate a few weeks before this race and asked me if I was interested.  I had never done an adventure run before. but had been thinking of doing one soon.  I don’t have a lot of experience orienteering […]

Race Name: Diamonds & Dirt Women’s Adventure Race
Location: Brighton, Michigan
Date: April 20, 2008.
Length: 6 hours
Website: www.glteams.com
 Last year my teammate and I made several trips down to Michigan to race, partially due to distance and race availability.  Adventure race directors in Michigan work together to advertise and schedule their races.  The result is that Michigan’s 2008 […]

Event: Raid the Rib
Location: Milton, Ontario
Date: April 12, 2008
Sport: Adventure Running
Length: techically 25km, but it depends on how lost you get!
After two moderately successful attempts at navigating for an all female team in the half distance (12.5km) of this biannual event, I thought that I was finally ready to handle the navigation for the full […]

Salomon Giant’s Rib Raid
25 km Adventure Run + Orienteering
Rocky Ridge Milton, On
www.dontgetlost.ca/raid
Rain and cool temps greeted the participants of the ‘08 Giant’s Rib Raid held at the Rocky Ridge Ranch in Milton. The Don’t Get Lost crew billed this race as “The Absolute Toughest 25k and Gnarliest 10k in Ontario” and by no means was […]

Snowshoe Raid ‘08
Horseshoe Resort (X-Country Centre)
3-Hour Snowshoe + Orienteering Race
Saturday February 23rd ‘08
www.dontgetlost.ca/raid/snow.htm
Fresh snow, sunshine and perfect temperatures set the stage for the 2nd annual Snowshoe Raid at Horseshoe Resort presented by the good people at Don’t Get Lost.  With a course designed by Team RF’s very own Bob Miller, all of the 60+ teams […]