This was an interesting race. I convinced a couple of my friends to join me, one from my training club Vancity OCR (who is really awesome at encouraging me), and one of my friends that I had been doing lots of trail running with on the weekends (who is super fast and doesn’t care about
I was pretty excited about this race. I had yet to run this course. Despite running a lot of the trails at UBC, I had not yet been to this side. Since starting my 10K running plan, I have gotten faster. I know this because I have started using Strava, and my training plan is
First race of the year, and I convinced a friend to do it with me. They wanted to train for the BMO half marathon in May, and hadn’t been running in a long time. I said “How about you do this 5K with me?” So they did! The weather this time was much better than
I have most of my races already chosen and signed up for, because I wanted to keep with my 1 race per month frequency (which I started in August 2016 by accident). I wanted to select my races well in advance because a) I love being hyper-organized and b) I needed to know that races
It was such a gorgeous day. A little cold and crisp but clear and bright and sunny. Oh, and windy. Very very windy. Here is a video of me talking about the wind before the race: I had managed to rope one of my coworkers into joining me, as he had been expressing frustration that
I wanted to make sure I kept up my monthly races, as I have been keeping up with my training always having a goal in mind. This race was only $10 (normally $15) because I got a discount from doing Rugged Maniac. I look forward to doing more of the MEC races because of the
This was my first obstacle course race (OCR), ever. I had not heard about the Rugged Maniac before this year. I found out about in my email, as I subscribe to Living Social deals. They were offering a discounted entry. I had already set out at the beginning of 2016 that I would complete my
This was the first run of 2016, for me. It also was the first race I had done in probably 6 years – the last race I can remember was the 2010 Sun Run (one of the biggest 10K races in North America!) I started training for it back in April, because I hadn’t been