Getting dirty for a good cause

On Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Yellowknife Ski Club, the 2025 CIBC Run for Our Lives Mud Run will be held.

It should be fun, and all the money raised goes to cancer care in the North. So it’s for a good cause. It’s a family event that you can either watch or participate in, if you get yourself or your team registered. The YK Mud Run has been going on since 2018.

As the name implies, a mud run involves some running with some mud to run in. Basically, it’s an obstacle course for people to make their way through.

I thought I would investigate the history of these sorts of events a little. Setting up obstacle courses for people to manoeuvre through goes back eons. It is just something people like to do, and often kids playing will spontaneously set up their own obstacle courses. This goes wa