Events

Meet your local snowsports clubs, get a great deal on your ski pass, learn to wax your skis!

MEC Ottawa brings its no frills approach to racing to Triathlon! Join us at this stunning location for the best value race around! Sprint ($40)

It's back! Presented in association with The Parks of the St Lawrence, this value packed weekend will provide everything a triathlete needs, ideal as your first event, a training race or as your goal for the season. Welcome to the second edition of the MEC Island Hop Sprint Triathlon. - Situated just over an hour south of Ottawa, and 1hr 30minutes west of Montreal, beautiful Mille Roches Island Beach on the Long Sault Parkway provides a stunning, unique race location. - Event entry allows triathletes to take part in just the race; or you can race, camp, and enjoy our delicious carbo loading pasta dinner the evening before. -

With the start/finish situated in Carp (west of Ottawa), enjoy these fully featured rides throughout the stunning Ontario countryside in Lanark County - the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario.

For a charge of only $45*, you can choose between three ride options: 50km, 100km, and new this year - an 80km* adventure gravel grind (Please note that the gravel ride is unsupported, and more of an adventure ride on backcountry roads, access roads, gravel, with a dash of asphalt). All rides end with a tasty feast and cold beer courtesy of Alice's Village Cafe and Covered Bridge Brewing.

Want to ride for a great cause? MEC Ottawa is very excited to partner up The Foundation Fighting Blindness as the official fundraising event for Cycle For Sight Ottawa 2018. This is a unique opportunity to ride alongside low-vision and non-sighted riders on tandem bikes.

A new race for MEC Ottawa in 2018 and set to become a fan favourite! Join us to run 5 or 14kms on the fantastic trails at Mont Ste. Marie! -

Join MEC Ottawa for the first race in our epic trail series: The Fortune Fell is back again! - Cette course est un mélange hybride de course dans les collines et montagnes d’Angleterre, d’où vient le directeur de la course, et de course en sentier nord-américaine plus traditionnelle. Le parcours de la course Fortune Fell est constitué de formidables sentiers qui relient les pistes de ski des collines (les fells) de Camp Fortune ! Le meilleur des deux mondes ! - This race is a hybrid mash-up of the Fell running of our English race director's homeland, and a more traditional North American style trail running race. The Fortune Fell race connects the ski hills ("fells") of Camp Fortune with sections of amazing flowing single track! -

A new race for MEC Ottawa in 2018 and set to become a fan favourite! Choose between a 5k ($15) and a 13k ($30) then join us on September 9th to race on ski hills and an incredible mix of technical single track and double track. This race will also be the host event of the inaugural Athletics Ontario Provincial Trail Running Championships. -

Bienvenue à la deuxième édition des courses MEC sur sentier du parc de la Gatineau, un événement d'une journée comprenant des parcours de 11, 20, 30 et 50 km, et maintenant un trajet de 3km pour les enfants ! - Listed in Canada's "15 'Must Run' Trail Races" in 2017, the MEC Gatineau Park Ultra is back in 2018! A one day event featuring races of 11, 20, 30 and 50km, and now a kids 3km too! - Each of the courses offers a complete experience of running in Gatineau Park fully supported with stocked aid stations, course marshals and the care of Ottawa Volunteer Search and Rescue Team. -

Come along to MEC for this community inspired day of group rides and clinics. Meet your local bike clubs!

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A meeting for the Ottawa paddling community; try out anything that floats, learn paddling skills, demo boats and SUPs – see you at the beach!

A women’s only event designed to introduce runners to the joy of trails, or to hone the skills of experienced trail runners.

Welcome to the last race of the in the MEC Halifax Race Series. All your training has been for this race, Come out and run this beloved trail system and enjoy the many lakes and variety of trees, and challenge yourself with a few hill climbs and the occasional dog hurdle. -

Cancelled for 2011 :-( - 2010 Lineup:

Jack Johnson, Weezer, Dave Matthews Band. Steve Miller Band, Slightly Stoopid, My Morning Jacket, Phoenix, Nas, Atmosphere, Cypress Hill, Bass Nectar, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Amos Lee, Tim Reynolds and TR3, Keller Williams, and many more! -

2011 Line-Up:

Moe., Ween, Levon Helm with Bob Weir, TV on the Radio, Slightly Stoopid - Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, Railroad Earth, Ozomatli, The New Mastersounds, The Brew, Empire Sound, The Ragbirds, Rubblebucket, Dangermuffin, Gary Clar, and many more!

moe. is playing a 3 night run at the House of Blues in Chicago. 7/2 - 7/4. These are the after party shows for the Grateful Dead 50th "Fare Thee Well" 

This Halloween massive is a produced by GoVentures (Love Festival LA, Hawaii and LV) and draws in over 25,000 people every Halloween who want to shake it in costumes at one of the biggest spookfests in LA.

2011 Line-Up:

Moby, TV on the Radio, Flying Lotus, Chromeo, The Antlers, The Flaming Lips, STS9, Umphrey's McGee, Passion Pit, Ghostland Observatory, Neon Indian, Twin Shadow, Childish Gambino, Mathgames, and many more!

This purposeful weekend is designed for you to strengthen the bonds, connection and communication with the girls and women in your family, and to support you within your sacred female circle in an authentic and connective way. You can come together with your daughter, mama, grandma and spend the weekend having fun together, laughing, listening, bonding. Or you can come by yourself for inner work and healing, meditate and focus on the role and archetypal qualities of being a mother, daughter, grandmother, heal the “motherwound” and generational trauma, and work with power animals of the women in your family to strengthen the connection through spiritual work. ? Throughout the weekend we will have family and group circles and solo and group practices focusing on our sacred journeys. We will discuss, vision, journey, meditate, eye-gaze, communicate in peaceful ways and have fun together. We will sing, dance, hike, work with plants, make candles, paint, make a fire, cook together.