RCMP, search teams looking for canoeist missing since Saturday
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Posted: Mar 02, 2021 8:00 AM MT | Last Updated: March 2
Jessica Leska is dragging all of her gear behind her on a sled.(Jamie Malbeuf/CBC)
After the pandemic cancelled her ultra-marathon plans, a Fort McMurray woman is testing her physical limits with a 200-kilometre run in an effort to showcase the Wood Buffalo region.
Jessica Leska, 36, is starting the run south of Fort McMurray on Friday.
Leska initially wanted to run in the 2021 Iditarod in Alaska, a 350-mile (563 km) winter race, but it wasn t feasible for her to attend due to COVID-19.
So she started planning her own ultra-marathon.
In April, she started preparing for an ultra-marathon to Fort Smith, N.W.T., but her plans were thwarted as the winter road between Fort Chipewyan, Alta., and Fort Smith wasn t built this winter because of COVID-19.