Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook Point Pleasant Park is full of wide, winding paths and the potential for a new route every time you go. Why would you bother taking to the boring ol’ sidewalk or jumping on a treadmill for your cardio fix? Here, you can […]
Lake Banook
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook There’s no better feeling in the world than lacing up your running shoes and hitting Point Pleasant Park for a run, with over 75 hectares of harbourside wilderness and running trails of all inclines. In the summer, you can whiz past one […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook Point Pleasant sprints at the finish to win gold again in this category, also known as Best Place To Walk Your Human. A fierce competitor that gives 110 percent, the park has lots to appeal to runners. Hills, for example. Steep hills, […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook With its maze of trails through the woods and bordering the ocean with its spectacular views, the gold winner Point Pleasant Park is a runner’s delight—and if that’s not enough, Sue Uteck’s unleashed bullmastiff provides added incentive to keep those legs pumping. […]
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Canoes, pogos and slimy science
One hundred thousand visitors are expected to attend the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships being held this weekend on Dartmouth’s Lake Banook. On the water, participants from over 70 countries will charge neck-and-neck at full-force in 1,000- and 500-metre races. “This is huge,” says Stacey Jones-Oxner, the event’s spokesperson. “Haligonians should be excited because […]
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Outdoor swim guide
LAKE BANOOK Getting there: Turn right after crossing the Macdonald Bridge to Dartmouth, then left up Thistle Street past Dartmouth High until Maple Street. Turn right, then left onto Ochterloney, which becomes Prince Albert Road. Turn left on Hawthorn, and then make a sharp right onto Banook Avenue, which ends up behind the clubhouse. Bus […]
