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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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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
Another solo #SkateSki day where I had set out to Another solo #SkateSki day where I had set out to do much more than I did. 

I was getting myself psyched to do Silver Queen, my favourite #trail at @sovereignlake but alas, the trail was closed when I arrived! It wasn't going to be groomed until the afternoon. 

It wasn't raining, but the conditions were wet, and I felt like I needed a warmer wax on my skis. My baskets kept sticking into the snow! I remembered the wise words of the leader of the Masters' leaders telling us to spray the bottom of our boots and our pole baskets with a silicone spray to assist with such conditions. I promptly went to the hardware store after I was finished #skiing. 

I feel behind the ball in my training, yet I did a 2nd fastest climb up Montezuma today. It legit LOOKED less steep than I remembered it. 

Every hour on #snow is slowly building my #training. I just wish I would do whatever it was that I had set out to do that day!

Tomorrow, more Masters co-leading, then hopefully, snowshoeing right after! 

#GetOutside #SkateSkier #SkateSkiing #TrainForLife #NotALongSki #TrainingGoals #MySovereign
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