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MEC Trail Race 2 – Mundy Park 5K – Apr 02, 2017

By stephanie 25 Jun, 2017

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

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MEC Race 3 – Pacific Spirit Park 5K – Mar 19, 2017

By stephanie 19 Mar, 2017

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

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MEC Race 1 Stanley Park 5K – Jan 29, 2017

By stephanie 14 Mar, 2017

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

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OCR World Championships 2017
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2017 Race Schedule

By stephanie 6 Jan, 2017

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

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MEC Race 8 2016 – Garry Point Park 5K

By stephanie 10 Dec, 2016

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

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MEC Race 7 2016 – Stanley Park 5K

By stephanie 7 Nov, 2016

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

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Rugged Maniac 2016

By stephanie 17 Aug, 2016 Leave a comment

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

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Night Nation Run 2016

By stephanie 7 Aug, 2016

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

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Today was a great long #ski day! Sunday mornings Today was a great long #ski day! 

Sunday mornings, I'm one of the masters co-leaders. Usually, I'm with the same group every time, but today, I was with a different group because of available leaders/co-leaders. We skied less than my regular group but I was happy about this, because I knew I had already planned to do a long ski, after. 

I haven't been getting many long ski days in, due to various circumstances, and I was determined to crank it out today. 
I registered for the @s2s_nordic race on April 1st. My first 20km race since the Cariboo Marathon (20km) back in 2009. 

Today, I really wanted to ski up from Lars Taylor at Sovereign Lake, across Comin' Round the Mountain, to whichever next trail was going to take me to Silver Star village. 

It was not a comfortable ski day. It was foggy, then raining, and I would alternate between being comfortable and then really really cold! 
My #SkateSkiing up Lars Taylor was mostly walking. But having only done that trail twice before, and though I went slower today, I certainly didn't hate it. Though I was working hard, I didn't feel it was hard. It felt like a 5/10 RPE, rather than a 7/10 RPE (like when I last tried to do hill repeats up the first segment of Aberdeen). Perhaps I am finally at peace with going slowly being a ME problem and not a gear problem, or maybe my brain was just into it, today. 
I also didn't want to let the conditions be a reason to not head out because who knows how it would be on race day! 

Lars Taylor is high up enough that the Nordic #trails cross some snowmobile trails. Much to my surprise, some snowmobilers got lost and we're coming down the ski trail! I was so startled that I fell into a snowbank! They were already going slow but I had a brief moment of panic thinking that I missed my turn, not them. Luckily, we were at a Nordic trail/snowmobile trail intersection, so I told them to hang a left behind me and they would get somewhere that wasn't where I was. Nordic trails are usually pretty quiet! 

Crossing the downhill trails along the Paradise #CrossCountrySki trail was nerve-wracking. Especially when I saw some downhillers on the Nordic trails jump into the trees to break trail!
Yesterday was the BEST day!! Why? Not only am I Yesterday was the BEST day!!

Why? 

Not only am I having the time of my life learning to be a #Masters leader at @sovereignlake with the best group of leaders, but I finally got the coaches' jacket!! 

(The bright toque is also for the leaders)

I think I need to get my name embroidered on these...

Also finally, the self-scanning stations for our passes! 

Helped that it was a sunny day with perfect conditions!!

Setting down roots here feels good! 

#TrainToTrain #SkateSkier #TeachToLearn #GetOutside #SkateSkiing #MySovereign #OkanaganLove #VernonBC #CrossCountrySkiing
Today was the #SkateSki day I wanted yesterday! It Today was the #SkateSki day I wanted yesterday! It was a surprise! 

After I finished #SkateSkiing yesterday, I went straight to the hardware store to buy silicone spray, to spray on the underside of my ski pole baskets, so they wouldn't stick to the (wetter) snow. I also applied some warmer liquid wax to my skis. 

It really made a difference, today! The conditions also seemed better overall. 

This morning, I was coleading the Masters. We had such a great day, doing a new route and #practicing more technique drills; I LOVE watching people have their "AHA!" moments! Literally, nothing makes me happier than watching something make sense to someone, when it comes to moving their body or learning a new physical skill. 

I was so jacked from the session and conditions, that I decided to head out on the #trail I didn't do yesterday. Silver Queen, my favourite black trail at @sovereignlake ! First time doing it this season, so I didn't have any expectations. The #ski to the trail head along upper Passmore and down the Black Prince switchbacks felt FAST, despite stopping a couple of times to stretch my calves. The first half of Silver Queen felt awesome! The descent was fun and I knew I would have to #climb out of there. It was only just before the Prince of Wales intersection that I started to get tired. Stopped more often, took more photos, ate some Dextrose tablets. But I was never in a bad mood. Just tired. 

If I had started my day with this jaunt, I would have been good for energy, but the second jaunt was 10km and the Masters session was 5.5km, so how I felt was proportional to the work I did. I hadn't skied 10km yet this season, let alone 15km. I have to work my way up to 20km by the end of March for the @s2s_nordic race. I will have to practice the Montezuma climb more (I did it two days in a row this weekend) and the famous Lars Taylor climb. Which actually isn't so bad to Coming Round the Mountain.... it's much harder to go all the way up to the top of Aberdeen. 

And even though I felt tired and not the most efficient #skier today, seems like I still had some good personal best segments according to @strava . I am getting faster! Slowly! 

#t1d
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