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ViaCyte trial for Type 1 Diabetes

By stephanie 6 May, 2019

It begins for me, tomorrow. I go into the hospital and begin my pre-surgery preparation. I will be in the hospital for 5 days, though I only need to stay overnight for 2 days. What is ViaCyte? ViaCyte is a company out of San Diego. Their business is stem cell research technology. This particular trial

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Spartan Beast – Montana 2018

By stephanie 8 May, 2018

We left Vancouver around 3:30pm Thursday to make our way to Montana. We drove to Spokane and slept in a cheap hotel, then left Friday morning for Kalispell, Montana. The drive from Spokane to Kalispell was gorgeous! We went through Lolo National Forest between Idaho and Montana to get there. The event itself was in

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Spartan Super & Sprint Weekend Seattle – April 2018

By stephanie 28 Apr, 2018

I knew going in to this weekend that it would be muddy. Really really muddy. It was really muddy last year, and this was my 4th time at this venue. Somehow, when I’m out there, I feel like I made the best and worst decision. “Why did I choose to come here again, in the

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OCR World Championships 2017

By stephanie 17 Oct, 2017

What are the Obstacle Course Racing World Championships (OCRWC)? They are an independent organization who hold a world class series of obstacle course races, for which one needs to qualify. Independent as in, they are not affiliated with any particular obstacle course racing organization, such as the Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, Warrior Dash, etc. Qualify

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How to complete a Spartan Race Trifecta – by accident

By stephanie 30 Sep, 2017

After completing my first accidental Spartan Race Super, next on my list was to deliberately race a Spartan Race Super. My race of choice: Spartan Super in Red Deer, Alberta. The first race in my life in which I had to board a plane (but not my last)! I chose this race because I had

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Spartan Sprint & Super Weekend in Vancouver – June 2017

By stephanie 13 Jul, 2017

Once upon a time in June, I declared that my club mates from Vancity OCR were crazy if they did BOTH races back-to-back on a weekend. And yet, how quickly I became one of these crazy people! It wasn’t something I had planned to do, it just sort of happened… So here I was, about

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DIY Race Medal & Bib Rack

By stephanie 30 Jun, 2017

One of the fun souvenirs that one receives upon completing a race is getting a medal, or being given a race bib. A lot of the obstacle course races give out medals and headbands, and a lot of the road and trail running races give out race bibs. Some road/trail races do give out medals

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Spartan Super & Sprint Weekend in Seattle – April 2017

By stephanie 26 Jun, 2017

Another double header weekend was happening in Seattle, and unlike the Beast & Super weekend in Seattle from 2016 that I was at, I did not volunteer on Saturday, the day before my race. I went down to visit a friend in Seattle and raced on Sunday. As much as I love volunteering, what I

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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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2016 Year in Review

By stephanie 23 Dec, 2016

A lot of my loved ones, workmates, people I meet along the way, have asked me “How did you get into obstacle course racing?” or subsequently “How can I get into obstacle course racing?” to which, the answers are quite similar. I first learned about obstacle course racing about 5 years ago. The first one

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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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