Steven Cannon's Blog: In Search of Yukon Cornelius
January 22, 2019
The 2019 Fat Pursuit 200 Mile Winter Ultra - "A Winter Hell"
November 18, 2018
The Gift of Mortality
A contradiction.
Not large in stature.
Enormous in presence.
Five feet 8 inches tall, perhaps five feet 10 but I suspect the larger assessment to be a product of the energy he put off than in actuality. A lengthy white beard, a bit of dark hair within, but not much. A horseshoe balding pattern but still enough hair that a small pony tail perched just off the back crown of his head. How old? I could only guess, and there was a sense that whatever my guess, that it would fall short of...
Not large in stature.
Enormous in presence.
Five feet 8 inches tall, perhaps five feet 10 but I suspect the larger assessment to be a product of the energy he put off than in actuality. A lengthy white beard, a bit of dark hair within, but not much. A horseshoe balding pattern but still enough hair that a small pony tail perched just off the back crown of his head. How old? I could only guess, and there was a sense that whatever my guess, that it would fall short of...
June 26, 2018
The Conclusion - 207 Miles and Out of my Mind
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June 21, 2018
207 Miles and Out of My MInd (Part 2 of 3)
Part two....
8 days. 8 days since I’d set off from the sun baked asphalt behind Gravel City Adventure in Emporia Kansas.
350 miles laid ahead. The task? The Dirty Kanza XL. A gravel bike race/adventure who’s idea was to be the first version of the Dirty Kanza but was seen as perhaps too foreboding and had been shelved for a only slightly more tame 200 mile version traversing the Flint Hills region of Kansas.
Dirty Kanza has become, from it’s first year start list of 34 hearty souls,...
8 days. 8 days since I’d set off from the sun baked asphalt behind Gravel City Adventure in Emporia Kansas.
350 miles laid ahead. The task? The Dirty Kanza XL. A gravel bike race/adventure who’s idea was to be the first version of the Dirty Kanza but was seen as perhaps too foreboding and had been shelved for a only slightly more tame 200 mile version traversing the Flint Hills region of Kansas.
Dirty Kanza has become, from it’s first year start list of 34 hearty souls,...
June 18, 2018
207 Miles and Out of My Mind in the Black Hills
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March 14, 2018
All Alone Atop Rainy Pass - The 2018 Iditarod Trail Invitational
“You had an easy time on the Ice Shelf. I gave you good weather; a flat, firm surface and mountains to guage your progress by. You took advantage of the conditions and made good distance. On the Beardmore Glacier I tested you and you were found wanting. But you were resourceful and persistent. I rewarded you again with fine weather. But now on this high plateau I want to know how much you want to claim your prize. You will have to earn every inch you claim off me. For I shall resist you...
February 18, 2018
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February 9, 2018
33 Below and On Your Own - The 2018 Arrowhead 135
“Yes!!! A shelter! Damn it—it’s an outhouse.”
Nose, toes, and fingers are items I hold in higher regard than overall standings. There is a certain amount of inherent discomfort I accept in these races, but I’d crossed that line. My feet needed some love.
Frostbite is a sneaky, diabolical, and—given enough procrastination as fuel—vicious predator. It stalks our little piggies all the way home. Where a match, placed under the foot, initiates an immediate response, frostbite lurks. Like the wolve...
