Just do it: turf the Nikes and find our ancestral ‘soles’
When I first signed up to run the Victoria Marathon as part of Raincoast’s “salmon run” team, I just had two tasks: get fit and raise 1,000 dollars. Yeah, just two tasks…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love to run
By Peter Ross
For me, setting sights on the 8K Road Race at the Victoria Marathon as part of Raincoast’s ‘Salmon Run’ team was an opportunity to get into shape…
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It was only 8K
By Andrew Rosenberger
It was only 8K. When I registered for the race, that was what I kept thinking. I wasn’t worried about the other 2,681 runners and walkers in the 8K race, or about the fact that I had only been running once in the last month…
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Salmon team makes a splash at the Victoria Marathon
Together with 14,000 other runners, members of Raincoast’s salmon team took part in the kid’s run, 8 km, half marathon and full marathon events at the GoodLife Fitness Marathon on October 10th, 2010. Standing at the starting line amidst a sea of runners, I felt both excited and nervous. Many of us, including my friend,…
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The death cults among us
By Chris Genovali and Camilla Fox
Montana’s request to hunt endangered gray wolves has been turned down by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; not that the federal agency is opposed to wolf hunting, but because they believe the Montana proposal would not survive a legal challenge…
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Marathon Training: The ‘Fin’al Run
For several months now, members of the Raincoast ‘Salmon Run’ team have been scattered in various places running the trails and roads of Calgary, California, Vancouver and Victoria as they train for the upcoming Victoria Marathon. For me, I’ve been hitting the logging roads of the Broughton Archipelago on the BC coast. Despite some drawbacks…
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The Bear Necessities
by Nick Garbutt, Geographical Magazine BC’s bear populations are intimately connected to the salmon on which they feed. But according to recent research, that connection goes all the way to the forest itself. Read more….. Geographic Magazine_Bears and Salmon.pdf
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Help Kyle and the Raincoast Team in our Run for Salmon!
Race day is fast approaching. I’m inching closer and closer to running 21k (not a full marathon, but a half-marathon’s still not bad for someone who smoked a pack a day for 9 of his 27 years on earth). I’m feeling more and more like a “runner” by the day. Evidence to support this includes…
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See you at the ‘fin’ish line!
Raincoast’s Salmon Team is training hard for the Good Life Marathon.
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Achiever at rest and at work
Check out these images of Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever ‘at rest and at work’ recently taken by our Field Station manager Doug Brown. The ‘at rest’ shot is the boat tied up at the Raincoast Field Station.
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Raincoast at the World Seabird Conference
By Caroline Fox
The first ever World Seabird Conference was held last week in Victoria (September 7-11, 2010). Over 800 participants from over 40 countries gathered… -
Humpback Out Back
Raincoast’s Doug Brown, photographer extraordinaire, recently took this amazing shot of a humpback whale within sight of our British Columbia central coast field station.
