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July Races
Filed under: General, Races
Posted by: PRR Executive @ 1:56 pm

Seek the Peak

This is a fun one… popular to do as a four-person relay, but Monika did it solo: starting at Ambleside park, she ran up through Capilano Canyon  up Nancy Greene way, up the Grind, and up again to the top of the Grouse Mountain. 

 

Knee Knacker

Ugh, this race.  Its legend precedes it… 30 miles across the entire Baden-Powell Trail with over 8000 feet of climbing and barely runnable downhills.  Yuck!  To top things off this year, it was really hot!  Despite the adverse conditions, we had some really good times from our club members.

Also of note: Former member and friend-of-PRR Ellie Greenwood broke the female course record by over 12 minutes and finished 5th overall (and first female, obviously) with 5:06:09.  Congrats to her and everyone else crazy enough to endure this horrible race!

 

5 Peaks: Sun Peaks

Now, Grant and Laura were the smart ones here.  Instead of a 50k slog through the BP trail, they opted to slip off to the lovely Sun Peaks resort and take part in one of the (short!) 5 peaks trail races.  They both placed in their divisions:

Enduro course (15k)

Sport course (8.5k)

 

5 Peaks: Mount Seymour

Doug did the Enduro course and Rachel did the Sport course on this one, the shortest but by far the most technical race of the series.

Enduro course (11.7k)

Sport course (6.2k)

 

Fat Dog 100

Oy.  I take back everything I said about KneeKnacker.  Fat Dog, Hot Dog, Lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng Dog.  This was the inaugural running of BC’s first ever point-to-point 100 miler that stretched from Keremeos back around to Manning Park.  There was also a 100k and relay option too.  Given that this was the first year, we expected a few hiccups, but we didn’t expect a course that was almost 20% longer than advertised, and super-technical terrain that was supposed to be runnable.  Oh, and did I mention the heat?  But all in all, more fun was had than not.

100 mile relay:

It’s important to note that these 100 miles were actually closer 117 miles. This doesn’t include the extra 4 miles that Ross ran getting lost.

100 kilometer solo:

Jess got some bonus k too! Hers turned out to be closer to 120k.

Ed tried the conquer the 100 mile solo, but ran out of steam around the half way mark.  Here’s to next year, Ed!

 

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