
The M2M Ottawa Virtual Trail Challenges
The leaves are falling, frost is forming, races are cancelled, but trail season is far from over. We’re keeping things going with a series of fun challenges for you all to tackle.
The Details
- One new challenge each week, for the next 3 weeks
- New Challenge posted on Friday of each week
- You can do any of the challenges at any time after they’ve been posted (as in, you could do #1 three weeks “late”)
- Submit your results via the Google Form linked below by midnight EST on November 1st
- Results must include a Strava link
- Award winners will be announced Monday November 2nd at noon EST
The Challenges
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[+] Turkeys (Week 1)
Thanksgiving and the wild turkeys are out in full force – bomb around this fun segment and get bonus points for photos of them along the way!
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[+] Harvest (Week 2)
Harvest your quads: -It’s harvest time… pumpkins, squash, and your quads (and glutes and hammies) put em to the test on this really hilly course!
- Click for Strava route (and gpx file)
- 6.6km
- 421m+
Directions:
- Up Brian’s Descent
- Down Brian’s Climb (Both mtb trails, so keep your eyes peeled)
- Around main chalet and left through parking area
- Left on Switchback
- Left on Giap
- Left down Paradis (ski run)
- Around chairlift and up North American (ski run)
- Around chairlift and left down Skyway (ski run)
- Veer right onto the connector trail as Skyway converges with Sparks
- Left on Canadian (ski run) down to the bottom
- Right around chairlift and straight, all the way up Heggdeveit
- Right around the building
- Straight down Sparks (ski run)
- Veer left off Sparks onto Humdinger Road
- Follow Humdinger all the way to the Chalet at the bottom
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[+] The Teen Screamer (Week 3)
This run has all the components of a good Teen Screamer – Leaf Zombies, scandalous trail names, the death of mans best friend and a solid chance you end up running in the the woods. Will you make make it out alive? Or will you rue (in) the day you signed up for this challenge?
- Click for Strava route (and gpx file)
- 6.8km
- 158m+
Instructions:
**WARNING** None of these trails are marked. Navigation devices necessary/strongly recommended. Several river crossing and potential slippery/spooky leaf sightings involved. Not for the faint of heart!
- Dodge the leaf zombies and their dogs to start at the trail head just past Carbide Wilson ruins.
- Like any good Teen Screamer, we’ll start with gratuitous nudity along “Multiple O”.
- Follow “multiple O”, making sure to skip right by foreplay (it’s marked with a gian FP in orange spray paint, go left at that junction), until you get to a little “Bypass” trail. If you hit a small lake you’ve gone too far. You might spot a piece of white ribbon with blue circles marking the entry.
- Follow the “Bypass” trail to Powerline for some beautiful running.
- After about 1.8 km, start looking for “Dead dog”. This ghostly trail is not only unmarked, it’s rarely used and hard to see. The trail head starts just before a small waterfall/stream crossing. You’ll see it on your left (maybe). Follow the ghostly trail through the woods, keeping to the left of the river.
- Follow the “Dead Dog” back to M.O, taking it back to the Ruins.
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[+] The Halloween KILLometre
How fast can you accumulate 1000m+? It’s halloween, you might as well do it in a costume!!
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Challenge Complete?
Submit hereAwards
- KOM/QOM – fastest times on each segment
- Stringing most routes together in one run award
- Best Photo (have to tag @mile2marathon)
- Best costume (stay tuned for our Halloween week challenge!)
Prizes
- Naak Bars
- Maurten nutrition products
- M2M winter swag (toques)
- A selection of shoes from Dylan’s size 12 shoe closet