Canada Goose Ultra

|CANADA GOOSE ULTRA 2025 - RACE REPORT|

After 12 hours of delay due to extreme reports on the Air Quality Index (AQI) we were unable to get our acceptable (AQI) at 9 and under. The race was unable to start and the 2025 Canada Goose Ultra was cancelled at 600PM.

After waiting and watching Air Quality Index numbers all day and calling the event - we decided to celebrate our runners with a post race gathering. Thank you to everyone for your patience and working with us to keep this event safe and responsible for everyone's health.

In exchange for your bib, we gave out a celebratory mug. In exchange for giving up your morning, a token of our thanks in a medal for the event.

With the option to take off your bib during the delayed wait, some runners walked and ran throughout the day, after we called the event - everyone managed at least a lap or other runners returned to socialize after completing their distances elsewhere.

Congrats to all and from the bottom of our hearts we are so grateful for our runners and hope that everyone had a positive experience.

This run community is special, I probably wandered the race site and socialized with everyone at least 50 times in the 12 hour wait. I broke bad new 4-6 times individually to the clusters of runners every 30 minutes to 2 hours at a time.  I know people were annoyed, but very thankful we were watching for their safety.

8 hours before we started the event we decided:

-(0-6 AQI) was acceptable

-(7-9 AQI) was cautious, but we will monitor your loops and your day closer than usual.

-(10+ AQI) We will suspend the event for 2 hours and reassess at that point.

Watching the trend of a doable AQI of 9 at 4AM, at high as AQI of 38 at 11AM, to a 13-14 consistently from 2-4PM - We were hopeful of a consistently lowering index that was less risk for strenuous activity.

Thank you to everyone who was pivotal to this event. RunRegina, Culligan Water, Wanda, The Weimers, Heidi, Ryan and all you lovely runners who I hope we all know each other better after a long eventful morning of conversations, sharing food and bonding.

While it was stressful watching a pile of resources and months of planning sit and wait, this was a great test run - as race directors we made the hard decisions and unintentionally established/tested some guidelines to managing a safe race during high (AQI) during  an event. If its a 5k or a multi-day backyard ultra I hope we have data and experience to make sure our events are safer now.

As a race director I hope our experience can help establish rule and a playbook for extreme heat, cold, smoke and all the fun stuff Saskatchewan weather throws at us.

|Director of Silly and Safe Goose Operations|

|Michael Dahlman|

The Canada Goose Ultra is a self supported and timed event that welcomes everyone looking to expand past that 3 - 6 hour comfort zone of running distances.

New ultra runners and seasoned runners are welcome to push their personal limits and see what they can complete in 6, 12 and 24 hour time frames around a 4 km loop of a lake.

-Choose the 6 hour event for a no-pressure introduction to ultra running.

-Choose the 12 hour event if you have a distance goal or have never pushed that time on your feet before.

-Choose the 24 hour event for runners trying their own personal limits. All finishers earn a custom medal. If you beat your own personal longest distance in a race, you win a custom swag item. If you complete at least 100 km, you'll earn a belt buckle!

All events are run on a certified 4 km loop and have a short finishing out-and-back section of 1km.

The course is a flat, paved route through a beautiful urban park.

Sorry, no refunds or transfers

Marathon Matters members get $10 off.

Route will be as followed, route in front of the legislative building may change due to construction on the lake front, but closer to the race we will confirm the route as 4 km.