2012 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 10

Starter Photo - 9 December 2012 (29 Starters)

Report:

It was drizzling at the start in Deep Cove, our favourite starting point, sorry Craig! There were 28 starters and one retriever, Dynasty, who was working the crowd for pats like a professional. Mind you once she got on the trail her nose went into overtime and poor Craig had to slow down, you cannot rush a sniffing dog. We were chased on the first section by Gottfried's dog desperately tracking him down, what a reunion it was. The group soon spread out and as we climbed the slopes of Seymour the snow began. Luckily it wasn't really sticking, so we only had to contend with lots of mud and a little ice on some of the wood walk ways on the top of Seymour. Even the Lynn boardwalks were not icy after having been warned they might be.

Randy was doing the loop twice for 50kms, so we saw him three times, crazy man. In the process he set a new course record of 6:05, well done Randy. Of course we now have an up and a down route, so what's it going to be next year? By the time we came back over Seymour it was really getting it's winter wonderland look with the trees drooping under the snow, what a treat. Deep Cove was soon reached and Honeys beckoned for eggs benedict and coffee. there were still a few runners finishing off lunch so there were two lucky winners of Trail Runner magazine subscriptions, thank you Sibylle and Club Fatass.

The only oops moment of the run for us was when we got back to Vancouver and realized we had left the sign in clipboard on the rear wheel of the car, so back we went to Deep Cove to retrieve it, we didn't want to disappoint everyone by losing their results. Luckily for us it was lying forlornly in the parking lot, safe in it's plastic bag.

Thanks for coming out everyone, it was fun and maybe next year we can do a dual start to satisfy everyone. See you at the Fatass 50.

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*   Bonus Point (Garbage Pick-Up)
** Event Host Points

2013 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 11

Starter Photo - 15 December 2013

Report:  As usual it was drizzling in Deep Cove but it didn't last long and was relatively warm and dry for the whole run! There were 18 starters and Bella representing the canine Fatass contingent. The climb out of Deep Cove rapidly spread the group out and, apart from a few mountain bikers, the trails were pretty quiet. The stretch up Seymour was mud central and the trail maintenance folk were having a hard time keeping everyone on the 'green carpet'. As I turned off the main Seymour trail one of the mountain bikers landed on their head, two feet are better than two wheels sometimes! At least there was no snow and ice this year, just mud! I bumped into Phil just before Hyannis Drive and we caught up on life, the universe and everything. He started early as he wanted to be off the trail before 1:30.  

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2011 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 9

Starter Photo - 11 December 2011 (missing a few late comers,  a couple of dogs and their owners and Craig, our host)

Report:

Year number 9!  And the weather was perfect. It was our second start from the Lynn Canyon end and I'm thinking I like it better that way although Pure Satisfaction stalwart Keith Nichol and his running companion Corinne preferred the traditional Deep Cove start along with some others. Thankfully the Event Host doesn't have to have a reason but at least one of them is that it took me less than 4 minutes to drive to the Lynn Canyon start ... guess I coulda walked I suppose. But then I wouldn't have had a place to store piggy while we all went for a stroll. 

Karl and Chad showed up well on time after starting in Deep Cove earlier on their planned 50km event. Karl squeezed it out in the end and Chad was done after 30km. We had a couple of stragglers and a couple of newbies and about the finest weather you could have hoped for. Crisp, clear, cool, almost no ice and slippery bits except for the boardwalks here and there. 

Prizes were given out at the beginning although a bunch of us floculated at Delany's after the run for coffee (two members of Bagger Team Dodgy were in attendance along with piggy). 

After coffee and treats we slowly departed and began thinking of our next Vancouver event ... the Fat Ass 50 run and dip. Hope to see you there on January 1 and thanks for attending Pure Satisfaction once again.

Craig

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2010 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 8

Starter Photo - 12 December 2010 - 38 Starters

Report: It was wet, it was mild, it was wonderful! The overwhelming feeling of the run this year from feedback received so far is that the temperature and the water combined to make this event totally fun and enjoyable. In past years I've had runners shivering at the start line hoping the run would start very quickly. This year we were cool but mostly wet and the rain didn't even come down that hard once the run began.

It was a great turnout of 38 starters and lots of variety with custom runs and dogs leading runners astray. The speedsters were out and the newbies were in full force. I'm sorry if you got lost - I updated the course instructions though so I'm not too sorry. I'm sorry if you got wet - I put in a special call for sunshine but all we got was the liquid kind. And I'm sorry if you missed out on the warmth of Delany's Coffee House at the end, along with a few prizes for those lucky enough to turn up there for a run review and previews of what each of us has in store for the next one.

A shout out to all those that stayed in bed under the covers ... you missed a fun one. A reminder to sign up for the New Year's Day Fat Ass 50 and Freeze Some Crazy Parts of Your Sore Body Swim. And thanks very much to everyone, especially the multi-year participants of Pure Satisfaction, for coming to join us for a swim on the trails today.

By the way, was that a new 25km course record by Mike Palichuk??? In fact, I think the first three finishers scored big time over the previous record of 2:47 by Ryan Conroy. Nice!

Thanks to Kintec, Sugoi, TrailRunner Mag and Gottfried Grosser for the draw prizes

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2009 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 7

What a great day it was.  Near perfect conditions for this time of the year - not counting the black ice, of course ;-)  If you haven't submitted your times yet, please send us an email or post a comment below.

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Pure Satisfaction has always been a popular run: right from day one seven years ago. I’ve enjoyed every year of it even in the slippery cold and sometimes rainy and the sometimes dark starts. And I figure people keep coming back year after year so others must like it too. Like our dedicated Chief Fat Ass, Sibylle, who has participated more than anyone else now (6 times).

And there are enough finishers since 2003 to enable me to collect some pretty serious statistics. We’ve had 213 finishers, an average of 30 finishers each year, and we’ve max’d out at 52 starters (2008) before we changed a few rules about getting CFA points. This year we had 33 starters matching the 2007 total of 33 as well.  And it’s nice to see so many people running the distance they want to do. Everything from a gentle hour or two custom length to one leg of 12.5km and up to 50km. 

We’ve also had all kinds of weather over the years but a few of us agree this was the best year yet. At the start line I didn’t even hear teeth chattering, like last year. And on the course, even though there was a bit too much ice in spots (Lynn Canyon board walks in particular and outrageously brutal I might add), it wasn’t wet and it did snow just enough to cover everything in a couple centimeters of white stuff to keep a bit of traction in some difficult places. 

And let’s talk about records for a minute … this year we had Ryan Conroy setting the second fastest time ever for 25km at 2:47. And along with two other 50km runners doing a very notable 8:44 on a tough course, (Karl Jensen and Kirsten Ramage, woohoo!), David Crerar now holds the course record at this distance in a speedy 6:48! Wow!!!. Nice run David. And I know that Pushpa Chandra was going for 50km as well; but, as wonderful a runner as she is, this is not an easy course. Pushpa gets to settle for a very respectable 37.5km.

Thanks to the first time Pure Satisfaction runners for coming out I hope you had as much fun as I did being out there. I stuck near the back with Reagan and had a great time. We kept finding all kinds of reasons to stop and take pictures and visit with other runners. We even saw one of my good friends Randy on his horse in Lynn Canyon.

I didn’t hear of anyone getting severely lost this year by the way. But I did catch wind of a major elbow injury from Ray and some hand gashing by Heather … slippage was a problem for all I’m sure. In fact, if you made it through without any scrapes in those conditions then you did very well. I myself drew a drop ‘o blood on my hand. And there were some lengthy patches of ice both hidden and in plain view. The granular snowfall helped to conceal many of them unfortunately.

But now another Pure Satisfaction is done and I’m looking at a change for next year … a good one I hope. Yes, the event will go on, with me … but I’m going to change the starting point. Starting in December, 2010, I will have us all begin in Lynn Canyon and (probably) run to Deep Cove, then back to get 25km … or back again and again if you’re a Fool (you know who you are). The 50k’rs like starting in Lynn Canyon anyway so I say we might as well join ‘em. I’m looking forward to it and I hope you are too. 

2008 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 6

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Event Report: Thanks to everyone that came out on a chilly day for the run. We had a record 64 people sign up and about 34 people showed up for the official start on Sunday morning in Deep Cove. All the others either ran on Saturday or earlier Sunday morning from Lynn Canyon and we had 2 people running up in Vernon. Of course, there were the expected no-shows but for today it was understandable as many of them were Snow-ins. There was a light dusting of snow on the trail but I know there were several areas around the Lower Mainland that got a whole bunch more snow.

It was quite chilly at the start but with our 9:04 am beginning time the sky was bright and everyone was ready and anxious to go. We had a few first timers and, as always, a small number that weren't familiar with the good ol' Baden Powell Trail. I asked the newbies to stick with someone experienced and not just bunch up so they could get lost together, if you know what I mean.

Unfortunately we missed the double loopers that started in Lynn Canyon earlier. I thought we would see them at Deep Cove for our start time. I hope they were all okay and I'm sure they were. No shortage of experience in that group. And I received some words from Karl about trees being down on the trail:

"The trees came down across the BP trail a few hundred metres up from where the "new" bridge crosses Canyon Creek above Riverside.  It's on the section where new gravel has been laid down recently.  Those trees were standing when Gilles and I were heading out on our first loop.  They were down when we came back.  It looks like a very large tree snapped and took out a couple of others on its way down.  Glad we weren't in the area at the time."

I must say, with this being the sixth running of Pure Satisfaction, I am so happy that lots and lots of you feel fit enough in December to join us. And for those of you that think you have to be able to run forever just to be part of a Club Fat Ass event, forget that. Walkers and hikers are welcome as well. In fact, I spent the morning walking with Ethelyn on the Trail in the Deep Cove area and we had a great time.

By the way, you'll see that some distances are set at 25km. This is because we're updating the official length of the course now that all the GPS'rs are reporting in and some convincing has been done for the event host. So if you included the section between the Deep Cove parking lot and the trailhead in your run then you can call it 25km from now on.

I'm sure you all had fun, thanks for participating. I hope to see you at my other CFA event in June, the Vancouver 100.

Craig

p.s.   I got an e-mail from our Vernon friends, Lorie and Barry, with a nice little report:

"Well we froze are fatasses off. It never warmed up at all and the wind picked up. We ran in the park [Kal Park] for 20k in knee deep snow for 3:20. It was beautiful but that was only 20k so we hit the back roads around the park with our yak tracks on and did 30K more in 3:30. Frozen and very tired we hit the hot tub to melt. We did have a blast even the insides of our gators froze. Glad to hear you guys had an easy run. Man I used muscles I forgot I had today. Put us in for 50k in 6:50. sad!!!
Back to the hot tub.
Lorie
ps We did eat candied smoked salmon each loop. Yum! Yum!"

2007 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 5

Starter Photo - 9 December 2007

What a wonderful day it was. There were lots of new faces. Welcome all! The trails were beautiful and frosted with a layer of ice crystals, the boardwalks were treacherous and the black ice deceiving... Congrats to all who finished todays run.

The post event survey is posted here and will close 13 December. We appreciate your participation.

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More than ever … Pure Satisfaction 2007

A record 33 runners took to the trail on Sunday. This was the fifth running of Club Fat Ass Pure Satisfaction on the Baden Powell Trail of North Vancouver. Most of us started in Deep Cove as usual but there were 4 hardier souls that lined themselves up to complete 48km for the first time in this event.

The four big distance people were Gilles, Karl, Chad and John. They started 2 hours ahead of the group sharp at 0700h plus the full time from the 5-minute rule. Beginning in Lynn Canyon at the traditional turn around point, they headed across the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge and made it to Deep Cove right at 9:00 am after slipping and sliding their way over the first 12km of their run. All four are experienced and capable long distance runners. Most notable though are Karl and Gilles. Karl is recently back running (and ultra training) after being off several months with a nagging back problem that has magically disappeared. And Gilles finished the Birch Bay marathon on Saturday the day before our run. Along with Gilles, Chad is training for Western States 100 mile race, and, of course, John is always in training for the next big one (and the next big conversation).

As for the rest of us, we gathered in the chilly zero degree December air to get our run briefing and have our picture taken against the backdrop of Mount Seymour. I was adamant that we watch out for one another, especially the newbies, and that we all take great care on the slippery patches. When Karl and the others arrived as I was speaking, they told us of how dangerous the route was for them. So we took their advice seriously and set off to have a whole bunch of fun.

It had ever so lightly snowed and the ground was hard. But all I heard was lots of chatter. It continued snowing the whole time but you could almost count the number of flakes falling there were so few. I was hoping for a bit more snow because it is a very pretty route with 10 or 20 cm of the fresh stuff around.

I followed along near the back and was running with Sibylle and then John for a bit. Once I got to the top of the trail where it turns down to the Seymour Grind, I chatted with Arthur to help keep him on course. As I got ready to turn around, I strongly suggested he stick with John who was close behind because this was Arthur’s first time on the course. For those of us that are familiar with the area, we know how easy it is to go astray. As it turned out, John ended his run when he got to Lynn Canyon after 24km and Arthur decided to call it a day as well. I understand that he took a cab back to Deep Cove.

For the rest of the runners, eventually they all made it back to Deep Cove before 5-1/2 hours was up. The fastest coming in was Patricia with Colin, Mel and Carolyn hot on her heels. When Patricia arrived it certainly seemed as though someone or something had been chasing her! And it seems like 3 hours is the still the time to beat. Hardly anyone has done this run in less than 3 hours. In fact the course record still stands with Casey Charleson from the first year in 2003. His time was about 2:45.

When mostly everyone was back, about a dozen of us went to the Lazy Bay Café at Parkgate and had some yummy treats and coffees. It was warm and we chatted for a nice long time while thinking of the others still on the trail.

I was happy to see a few repeaters to the event. But I was sad to see the Keith didn’t make it out due to technical difficulties with his house keys. And I’m very happy that Pure Satisfaction has been so popular. Oh and thanks very much to Colin for doing the GPS thing so we can see better what we've done.

I hope you’ll all join me again next year.

Craig

Thanks also to TrailRunner magazine for the 2 yearly subscription certificates as draw prizes. 

2006 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 4

Thanks everybody for coming out and making this 4th running of the Pure Satisfaction a great success.  21 runners toed the start line ready to brave the elements. In the end the rain and wind fore casted didn't materialize, the snow had almost completely disappeared and the blow downs were manageable.

Thank you to Berglind for weathering the cold and handing out Craig's Zone Bar's at the turnaround.  

Thanks to North Shore Athletics, TrailRunner, Kinesys and Body World 3 everybody who showed up at the Lazy Cafe got away with a draw prize.

I listed preliminary results below.  If your time is missing, be sure to email them to us. Please also feel free to add your perspective of the run as a comment below.

Craig will post the starter photo and his report soon.

Happy Trails,

Sibylle

2005 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 3

30 Starters

Pure Satisfaction December 11, 2005 Run Report

Brrrr it was chilly! … and wow it was fantastic!

We had sunshine and blue sky and remnants of the last snow fall still in place up on Mt. Seymour. And even better, we had enough people do a custom route to make sure that Pure Satisfaction was a classic Club Fat Ass event.

It was also nice to hear so many people say what a great route the Baden Powell Trail is between Deep Cove and Lynn Canyon. I’ve known that for a long time, along with lots of other people. And we’re all glad to share it with the newer club runners.

Our quickest participants today were Danilo Caron, Chris Benn and Bill Dagg, all coming in at 3:05h. They were still a fair way off the course record set by Casey Charleston a couple years back (2:45h) but 3:05h is a very respectable time for a rough and slippery 24Km course.

At our pre-run chat Sibylle singled me out for being such a big Fat Ass and winning the points series this year. I was very happy to be given a complimentary CFA membership for 2006 along with a gift from our new sponsor, North Shore Athletics. They sent along a nice and comfy NSA sweatshirt that I gladly put on after the run to stay warm. I must mention that Bill Dagg and Cheryl Johnson were pretty big Fat Asses as well in 2005, trailing me for several months in the point standings and being sure to keep me honest. We each came out for 12 events but since I hosted two and picked up garbage for extra points along the way I held the lead. I knew I had to show up for every event possible or slip behind them quite easily. Of course they were both at the event today.

I have to say it was all fun and all worth it as we got to participate in so many great and challenging events this year. Of course, the most notable and memorable has to be The Double in June. In fact, three of The Double runners came out today to participate in Pure Satisfaction (Karl Jensen and Gilles Barbeau and me). Next year you can try your hands (and feet) in the Vancouver 100 since The Double has been put to rest. Same great course but now 4 extra kilometers! I think that’s even better value for your low membership fee, is it not?

After the run today a few of us stopped in at Lazy Bay Café for lunch and prizes. Just about everyone won something, including water bottles and hats from North Shore Athletics, a subscription to Trail Runner magazine, a cool book on trail running, some gels and also a pair of tickets to the upcoming CFA sponsored event in March for Jesper Olsen on his World Run.

Lastly, thanks again to our one-person crew, Ethelyn, for braving the cold at Lynn Canyon (on the far side of that awesomely slippery suspension bridge) so that we could have a moment of rest and a Zoneperfect bar to help get us back to Deep Cove. I hope to see you all next year and also at the next CFA event on New Years Day.

2004 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 2

2004 at the turn-around

25 Starter
25 Finishers

Run Report for 11 December 2004

The second installment of the Club Fat Ass Pure Satisfaction run is now complete. There were many firsts on this crisp and calm day, not the least of which was a record turnout of 25 runners and 1 happy dog. And first let me say that this is no ordinary running group. We all chose to get out of our nice warm beds on a chilly December 12th Sunday and brave the rough, hard trails of the Baden Powell for an 8:30 am start. The sky was clear, the temperature low and the car windshields were covered in heavy frost this morning.

We got started in good time right after the run briefing and group photo. My first order of business of course was to remind everyone how important it is that they take care of themselves. I knew there would be lots of ice on the route along with slippery roots and rocks and sure enough there was. And since we had seen way too much rain the few days prior (up until Friday night), there was also lots of water and mud. Sounds like a typical late autumn North Shore running day to me.

We had several firsts today: Bill Dagg came first with a monster performance. I saw Bill on the return trip at the power lines just before Lillooet Road and knew he was having a good day as he was well ahead of the rest of the pack. We also had 19 first timers to the event with both veterans and newbies to the BP Trail. I’m sure that Ellie, Bob, Chris, Desmond, Ann and Gottfried were all chasing one another for the whole run as they finished very close together.

One of our more notable firsts for the run were the three “under 20 year olds�? that showed up for some fresh air and credits to their Kinesiology class at UBC. Nineteen year olds Mike, Mark and Nicola all did an abbreviated route up to the area past Seymour Road and around Old Buck then returned to Deep Cove. The best comment I heard from them was, “I like trail running, it’s not boring!�? You’re absolutely right. Welcome to the club guys and hope to see you out again sometime.

Another first was that we had six returning runners. Bill, Kathy, Keith, Cheryl, Sibylle, and Patricia were not daunted by the dark and dreary weather from last year’s run. In fact, they all improved on their times quite significantly.

Many thanks from each of us go to Ethelyn for hanging in there at the Lynn Canyon Café as our major volunteer. She handed out ZonePerfect bars and Hammer Gels. Her smiling face was a welcome site especially since aid stations are a luxury for Club Fat Ass runs. Of course, we also had Ean and his clan of youngsters running around Lynn Canyon to cheer us on and welcome a few of the short distance runners to their finish.

I know that everyone had a great day and I’m thankful there are no reported injuries nor lost souls. Lots of us even found our way without difficulty to Honey’s after for yummy treats and hot coffee.

Keep up the running and join us on Dec. 11, 2005, for the next heart pounding adventure called Pure Satisfaction.

2003 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 1