Step Into Action

A Day in Regina.Today was a well deserved day off of rest and relaxation in Regina for Mike and Riley. I can’t say that I deserve the rest as much as these guys but I highly anticipated the day off. I’ve only been with them a week and in th…

Welcome to Regina!Mike and I ran the remaining 25km to the Regina city limits where we met Harold and Scott from the Regina Fire Department in the parking lot of the CTV building. They were going to escort us into town in their brand new fire engine.Du…

Getting closer to Regina,Not much interesting happened during my run today. Mike ran with me in the morning and there was a bit of a headwind though much lighter than the past couple of days. Chris and Mike alternated running with me. The scenery was b…

Today was as close to a perfect day as we can get.  Here is what happened.We woke up in the town of Whitewood, next to the Whitewood Inn.  As Riley and I rose, and started checking our many social media accounts and responding to emails we ha…

I love tailwinds!We started off just inside the Manitoba border at the rest stop/tourist info centre welcoming people to Manitoba. After the short drive back into Saskatchewan, I stepped outside and was immediately greeted with a strong tailwind. AWESO…

Guest blog by Christopher DaumToday’s wake up was an early one for me. Riley decided to hit the snooze button a half dozen times, which was okay with me. The morning felt cold and I needed to put on some layers. I was introduced to the morning routin…

Hello Mr Daum, welcome to Step Into ActionAs predicted I was late getting up this morning despite setting about 8 alarms. I was slow getting ready as well, so I missed the rain that started as I got up and stopped just before I finally managed to get o…

Why is WiFi so hard to findIt was cooler this morning, a nice change especially now that our A/C is gone. Shortly after I started running this morning (which happened to start at the bottom of a hill, so much for the prairies being flat) hay bales star…

Heat Hills and HeadwindI had breakfast this morning at McDonalds after spending the night in their parking lot. I feel like it’s the least I could do. Plus I wanted a big breakfast and a sausage and egg McMuffin. After breakfast, while I was taping u…

Holy headwindThere was a massive 70km/hr headwind to start the day. It was brutal and I was exhausted after only about 15km. My pace was super slow and I could stop and lean forward and not fall over. I so wished that I was running the other way, my pa…