whose race?

whose story?

It has been often said that small minds amuse easily.

Well dear reader, my brain must the the size of the arse hair on an ant if my last week was any indication.

I spent days watching a dot on a map move very very slowly.

Sure it was about as graphically exciting as an early game of Combat on an Atari 2600, but the narratives unfurling in my mind were more epic than Tolkien’s.

Sean was competing in the Tip to Tip. It’s an annual ultra endurance race in Nova Scotia. Every year, a group of riders leave The Hawk - the southern most tip of Nova Scotia on Cape Sable Island and race to the northern most tip of the province in Meat Cove on Cape Breton Island.

In between? They have to hit checkpoints. It’s not a strictly linear race.

Once of the years that Chachi won they raced to the end of a chain of islands to Briar Island. That segment included three ferries. For some? It was totally demoralizing seeing people heading back and onward while you were still on the way out.

It’s a race that you on…