Running the Bruce Trail

Running the Bruce Trail is once again stretching into more of a long-term goal than I anticipated. What started as a summer resolution is turning into more of a bucket list project.

While I prefer not to think of outdoor fun and family life as mutually exclusive, they can be at times mutually adjusting.

Going outdoors these days largely means going local, which is not a bad thing. And what’s further away geographically has become further away temporally as well.

That is, a place’s distance away in space places it a corresponding distance away on the road of life. That puts trail running on the Bruce Peninsula about 2-3 years out, pending a margin of error of +2 years due to the upcoming arrival of baby #2 next spring.

So, I have decided to forgive myself this missed deadline and let it ride for now.

Someday, when I find a big, comfortable space in my life to do so, I’ll strap on my shoes, pick up my pack, and run the last hundred-odd kilometres to Tobermory.