Pure Outside

2012 is going to be another awesome year to get outside and participate in the great events all over the island. There are races of all size and description for you to participate in. You can run, mountain bike, ski, kayak, snowboard, road bike, canoe and sail. Make sure you check back to this page [...]

… hasn’t been created yet. It’s coming. There are Q&A sites all over the place like Yahoo Answers and a variety of others but they are terribly designed and full of junk. You have no idea who’s answering your question and if what they say has anything behind it. Enter StackExchange. Originally designed as a [...]

Ever heard of a blog carnival? Most people haven’t. That’s ok. I hadn’t before I participated in my first last year. The whole idea is that a bunch of bloggers get together and each do a blog post along a certain theme. Each month the carnival is hosted on a different site. The host puts [...]

For all you techies out there, here’s the Vancouver Island Outdoor Event Calendar in Google Calendar. You can peruse this one or add it to your own using the icon in the bottom right corner. If you don’t like this one try the regular version of the Event Calendar. There is also the 2010 Vancouver [...]

The muscles are sore. The gear is dirty. The pictures are taking a while to upload. My mind is still buzzing from all the activities. All signs of a good weekend.

** The 2012 list of outdoor events is up now. 2011 will be, as every year has been, full of awesome events all over Vancouver Island. Make sure you check back to this page as it will get better and better every month! I’ll be adding to it whenever I hear about a new awesome [...]

There’s only one more day to go until we hit the trail for the first annual PureOutside Juan De Fuca run. 47km of sweet ocean-side single track awaits us tomorrow on the trail near Sooke. The nearly 50km Juan De Fuca Marine Trail is hiked by hundreds every hear and provides a moderate way to [...]

The guys at RaceDay Timing are getting faster and faster at putting the Gutbuster results online. You can see the Mount Doug Gutbuster results from today here: http://www.racedaytiming.ca/gb004long2010.html Today was definitely an off day for me. I’ve been nursing an injury from Ultimate all week and wasn’t sure I was going to run today. I [...]

Earlier this year, I took part in the Gutbuster trail run race at Mount Tzouhalem in Duncan. The first of the Gutbuster series on Vancouver Island for 2010, it was a grueling race. After a winter severely lacking in trail running, the track the Gutbuster crew put together quickly showed me I had some training [...]

This is a guest post from Karl Woll from OutdoorVancouver. He posts an incredible amount of juicy, outdoor goodness at OutdoorVancouver and just recently ran the Vancouver Marathon. If you’re not aware of the 5 Peaks Trail Running Series and are looking to get your trail running shoes a little (ok, a lot) dirty it’s something [...]