Chuckanut 7-mile Race

Thanks, Rainy, for the reminder about this year's Chuckanut Drive race. It's on July 9. The route is 7 miles (12k) and flat. And reports are that the food is really good!

People interested should talk to Rainy about entry forms, or you can enter on-line here (and get more information):

http://www.gbrc.net/chuckanut_footrace.html

Wind sprints

The Wednesday workout is often a battle of mind over matter - your body usually can do the work, but often the mind is whining "this is hard, I don't want to do this" and generally trying to get you to stop.

But this Wednesday, while a challenge, was just plain fun. (Or, as Rainy called it, Sports Day.) Teams of 3 basically running a relay race 200 metres at a time. Only the "race" went on for 20 minutes, and everyone won because it was such a great workout!

One more long run before Scotiabank - at Rainy's suggestion we won't be going 20k, but 15. ALL Sunday runners have two choices: meet at Eileen Dailly at 8 a.m. Or meet in the Seymour Demonstration Forest parking lot at 8 a.m. Whether or not you're running 15k, consider coming to Seymour. you can do whatever distance you like on the dam road. There are markers every kilometre so you know where you are (and so if the GPS technician screws up, it won't matter!).

I know it's nearly summer, but let's keep our fingers crossed for cool, cloudy Sundays until the end of the month!

June 12 - Seymour run

We have a 20k run left, and the plan is to run the Seymour Demonstration Forest Dam route. It won't matter if the hopeless GPS technician screws up, because there's a 10 k marker! (It's 11k if you decide you might as well finish the thing...)

We'll be meeting AT THE SEYMOUR LOT at 8 a.m. To get there, take exit 22 - Mt Seymour Parkway. Keeping left, follow the signs toward Lillooet Road / Capilano College. Go straight through the intersection, past the Holiday Inn on the left. Continue up Lillooet Road to the cemetery, located at the top of the hill. Then follow the signs - it's at the end of Lillooet. It's gravel once you get past the cemetery, as far as I remember.

18k????

This is getting to be a habit. Today about a dozen of us headed across 2nd Narrows for an 18k run. We ended up doing about 20. We don't know for sure, because the idiot GPS technician forgot to restart her Forerunner at 10.5k when we were regrouping. We probably ran about 2-3 k before she noticed. After that, we did another 6.6k which took us back to Eileen Dailly. (Oh well, at least I recharged the battery after last week's technical issue!) We ran along Dollarton and then up Mt Seymour Parkway and back. We were able to avoid that steep section at Dollarton because one of the male Bushtits asked for directions for a shortcut (who says men never ask for diretions?).

The rain held off until we were on the return across the bridge, and didn't start seriously until we were dong the last 2k or so. We weren't too wet to go to Tim Horton's after...

Another 10-15 people headed down to the PNE lake and from there to New Brighton and back - guess they missed the rain!

A lesson today about sticking together and paying attention to route discussion. Three people left the group to go to the bathroom, but didn't continue on the further 1/2k to Dollarton Plaza, where the rest of us waited for them. Three people looped back to see if they were OK, but they'd apparently forgotten that we weren't going back the way we came, and headed home. If you're going to head back, or leave the group - TELL THE REST OF THE GROUP!!!