Swamp Donkey 2009

Check out some "photo action" of the Swamp Donkey Adventure Race 2009, thanks to Kelly Morton Photograpy. Please click HERE for the slideshow!

Swamp Donkey 2009 Race Results

Congratulations to all racers and thanks to all volunteers and sponsors! The 2009 Swamp Donkey race was a huge success! It was a very challenging race this year with lots of trekking and lots of paddling. It was so exciting for us to watch everyone pushing through and enjoying what we threw at them! The terrain certainly was very beautiful out there and this years race covered lots of new ground (over 50 km for the advanced course!)

The official results have been posted online. Want to know exactly how you compared, or where you can improve next year? Take a look at all the times HERE.

The Legend of the "Donkelope"... Race Report 2009

by John Ford

(Cue Music -"Hinterlands Who's Who")..... The Legend of the "Donkelope" has existed for hundreds of years, dating back to early tribes and explorers that roamed the most remote regions of the Precambrian Canadian Shield. The Donkelope was known to run freely under the cover of dense bush, eluding capture, fortunately, until collapsing hours later only to be revived by drinking fermented barley water! To find out more about the "Donkelope" contact the Canadian Wildlife Assoc.

Which brings us to later day's "Adventurer's " wandering the same nomadic areas for ultimate supremacy that is The Swamp Donkey Adventure Race? For some, the race began months ago nowhere near Falcon Lake MB. For others it may have started as they arrived at Falcon Trails Resort, but for most of the near 220 participants of The Swamp Donkey Adventure Race, the reality that lay before them would not become apparent until the morning of the event.....(more)

(READ JOHN'S ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE)

Swamp Donkey 2009 Race in Review

by Rick Shone

Congratulations to all racers! It was incredible to see so many people challenging themselves to this years course. The most exciting thing from a race organizer's perspective is to watch racers moving from discipline to discipline with smiles on their faces. Thank you to all the racers who gave me high fives, smiles and "thank-you's" when you passed me along the race course.

Planning a race is a funny thing. We spend hundreds of hours exploring the bush, creating paperwork, finding volunteers and sponsors, promoting the race and testing the different courses options for timings, creativeness and feasibility. Sunday after the race always feels a bit anti-climatic for organizers as we wander the grounds, with only a few stragglers from the party the night before slowly emerging from their tents, tearing down for another year. This was our third year. The course and the level of racers, beginners and experienced, just seems to get better every year. If it weren't for you and the positive attitudes that you bring to the entire race experience, we just simply wouldn't do it!....(more)