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on August 01, 2015

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My second Snowshoe race - Dion Ganaraska Forest - a win!

My second snowshoe race was yesterday. I am so excited to write this report! After a few more practice runs on my Dion Racing Frame Snowshoes , I was looking forward to racing again. The kids slept over at their Grandma's and Grandpa's house, and my husband and I were set to have a day away together to compete in the Dion Ganaraska Forest Snowshoe Race, near Port Hope, Ontario. This is the 6th race in the Dion Eastern Ontario Snowshoe Running Series . We woke up early to make the 2 and a half hour drive to the race. The rain overnight had melted all the snow in Cambridge, so we were expecting to see increasingly more snow as we drove closer to the race site. Nope. The neighbouring farmer's fields right beside Ganaraska forest were completely clear. Greg and I couldn't believe that there was enough snow for snowshoes. But there was. Inside the forest the snow was abundant. Most was deep, packing snow, but in some spots it was the kind of snow that's s

I was an RD this year! -Rookie Snowshoe Race Directing

This past winter, I had the amazing opportunity to be a Snowshoe Race Director. The planning was in the works since last summer, and the Dion Winter Goose Chase at Shades Mills Conservation Area in Cambridge, ON became reality on February 4th, 2017. I was excited to bring snowshoe running to Cambridge. The majority of the snowshoe races in Ontario are a few hours away, so the thought of a snowshoe run in my hometown was wonderful. I teamed-up with Derrick Spafford the organizer of the Dion Ontario Snowshoe running series, and my race was part of the series. This was really helpful because being part of a series helped with things like web exposure, registration, insurance, prizing, and Derrick patiently answered my MANY questions about putting on a snowshoe race. It was an interesting winter to organize anything that depended on snow, since we got very little snowfall. Leading up to the race I was stressed. When I was in the initial planning stages of the race

Remembering Oscar -my always enthusiastic running buddy

Here comes a post that has been really hard to write. Oscar died in the early hours of Monday June 20, 2016. He was Greg and my first dog. We adopted him from an animal shelter in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia while we were on our honeymoon and have shared the last 12 years with him. Here's my goodbye letter. Dear Oscar, To my running buddy and faithful furry friend, Oscar. 12 years ago, I was so excited to get a dog. Greg and I researched dog breeds, and had narrowed down a few that we thought would be a good fit for us. Then, while driving past the Lunenberg SPCA building on one of our last days of our honeymoon, we stopped in for a look. Um, well everything we read was completely ignored, as our hearts melted when we spotted you. In the litter of extremely cute balls-of-fur at the Lunenberg SPCA, you are the one who ran right to me and jumped into my lap. From that moment, I knew you were a special dog. We weren't sure what breed you were, but from the markings

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