Carlos Castillo's blog

I have been doing some writing on my "other" blog. http://jackal100.blogspot.com/ please enter my survey on "feet taping"... (Ultratalk)

Hi! everybody, I have been working on the set up for this years "Celebration of Distance Running". I am introducing a new event this year. A "First Timers" Marathon. This will start at the same time as the main events and will be open to 20 newbies. I know it is the day before the Vancouver marathon, but that shouldn't be a problem. It will be 4 laps of the Lake plus the extra bit.(run at the beginning of the first lap). This would be an ideal run for your teenage kids or all those running spouses that would be over here supporting their SO's.

Long time no post! I have been running.

So the course record has now been lowered to 6:15:xx! Not by me, I hasten to add. This superhuman accomplishment was achieved by Shawn Nelson, the younger of the two Nelson boys. Both are elite athletes.

This course was very,very well flagged, thanks Wendy! The volunteers were awesome and some of the views were captivating. Notable the tantalizing Tantilus Mts.,the Chief and Howe sound.

I (Jeff Hunt) will be posting the details for our JdF Trail Run here.http://trailadventurer.blogspot.com/ If you have anything to add, or any questions, just email me at jeff.hunt@smus.bc.ca Feel free to invite anyone you want for this run. The more, the merrier. Date: August 23rd, 2008.

For those of you that haven't done the trip over before, these are the directions from the Ferry to the start of the event. http://www.usatf.org/routes/view.asp?rID=60848

This past week-end Ms.J and I, went to Squamish to take part in a training camp over two days. This kind of back-to-back session is know as a "Brick". A group of "fatassers" had planned to run. The first part one day , and the second part the next. This would be on a 50 mile course of an up coming race , the "Stormy 50 mile and 100 mile Ultra marathon". I am registered to run the 100 miler so I figured that it would be an ideal chance to familiarise myself with the terrain. That it was! I ended up running my 10 hours per week of running in two days. ILTS!