CTVNews.ca Staff Date: Tuesday May. 1, 2012 2:37 PM ET Anyone wishing to lasso the moon for their sweetheart will have no better opportunity than Saturday night, when the lunar planet provides a larger and closer target than normal. The moon will be closer to the Earth than it will be at any other time of the year, a phenomenon known as a lunar perigee. And coincidentally the moon will become full just two minutes after it reaches its closest point at 11:35 p.m. … Continue reading
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Apr 16, 2012
Brain or GPS?
Train your brain to work faster than a GPS Darryl Leniuk From Thursday’s Globe and Mail What’s the deal? Get fit while finding your way through the forest. Where’s it at? Developed decades ago as a military discipline to train officers in navigating complex terrain, the modern sport of orienteering involves using a map and compass to move as quickly as possible through a racecourse, reaching set markers and making decisions on the most efficient route along the way. Orienteering … Continue reading
Jan 10, 2012
Registration location and Participant Notes
Registration for all teams on Saturday May 5th will be held at St. Luke’s United Church, Tantallon. The church is located on Hwy #3 at 5374 St. Margaret’s Bay Road, approximately 1/2 km west of the intersection with Hwy #333 (to Peggy’s Cove) and directly across the road from the Bike & Bean coffee shop/bike shop which used to be the old train station. Continue reading
Dec 07, 2011
Some upcoming changes for 2012…
So we listened to your feedback, and we’ve decided to make some changes in 2012. As/when/if we make any further changes, they’ll be posted here to give competitors maximum notice (unless they’re course changes, in which case we want to keep you in suspense!). If all goes well, we’ll keep these changes for future years – so bear with us if things are a little different this time around. We want to try and keep the E2C up there with the big guys in terms of exciting events 
Changes for 2012 are… Continue reading
Nov 23, 2011
Thanks for the feedback…
Thanks to everyone who filled in the survey that we recently sent to last year’s competitors – we had 124 responses! We’ve discussed some of the results at E2C planning meetings and soon we’ll be publishing a summary of the points that seemed to be raised most often among the participants. We’re going to be incorporating some of your suggestions into next year’s E2C, so we’ll also post any rule/format decisions as soon as they are agreed upon. One good suggestion … Continue reading
Nov 02, 2011
E2C makes the Adventure Race “Bucket List”!
Breathe Magazine has listed the E2C as one of their top “Bucket List” choices of adventure races across North America! You can read the article online here: http://www.breathemag.ca/news/general/the-adventure-running-bucket-list-part-1-north-american-races. The word is spreading… let’s move it up the list in 2012!!
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