2008 - Pure Satisfaction Results - Year 6

Starter Photo - 14 December 2008


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Pure Satisfaction 2008 - Saturday StartEvent 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:

Pure Satisfaction 2008"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!"

First Name Last Name Event Split Time Points
Barry Hopkins (Vernon) 50km    6:50 2
Lorie Alexander (Vernon) 50km   6:50 2
Gilles Barbeau 51km*   9:57 2
Karl Jensen 51km*   9:57 2
Chad Hyson (UBC run) ?     2
Mark Lesack ?     *
David Crerar ?     *
           
Tim Wiens 25km*   2:59 2
Chris Benn 25km*   3:01 2
Ran Katzman 25km   3:09 2
Colin Freeland 25km   3:15 2
Bill Codville 25km 1:39 3:19 2
Chessa Adsit-Morris 25km 1:39 3:19 2
Ellie Greenwood 25km 1:39 3:19 2
John Neels 25km 1:39  3:19 2
Susan Reynolds 25km 1:39 3:19 2
Daryl Spencer 25km   3:20 2
Desmond Mott 25km*   3:29 3**
Sukhi Pawa 25km 1:41 3:30 2
James Montgomery 25km   3:35 2
Ean Jackson 25km   3:46 2+1****
Lindy Yeates 25km*   3:48 2
Teri Brigden 25km*   3:48 2
Catherine Jensen 25km*   3:48 2
Philip Waters 25km   3:55 2
Rob Ruff 25km 1:56 4:00 2
Jess Bassil 25km*   4:04 3**
Bill Dagg 25km*   4:04 3**
Amy MacArthur 25km   4:07 1
Andrew Laing  25km   4:07 1
Don Phillips 25km   4:12 1
Laddie Hannam 25km   4:12 2**
Ray Levasseur 25km   4:14 2
Monty Watts 25km 1:56 4:30 2
Andrew Crompton 25km 2:12 4:30 2
Arthur Gee 25km   5:27 2**
Sibylle Tinsel 25km 2:50 5:40 3**
           
Adrian Rothwell 25km     1
Amber Thom 25km     2
Christine Rybak 25km     2
Jackie Muir 25km     1
Michelle Allen 24km     *
Mike Palichuk 25km     2
Sylvie Jorger 24km     *
           
Helen Tilley 12km   2:08 2
Jessie Marches 12km   2:08 1
Pamela Keck 12km   2:08 2
Jonathoan Weresch 12km   2:33 1
Ondria Needham custom     2
Cheryl Johnson custom     2
Arlene MacAulay custom     2
Baldwin Lee 10km   2:00 1
Craig Moore 4km   2:30 3***
Ethelyn David (crew) 4km     1
           
Carrie Walsh     Snow-in 0
Claudia Bullington     Snow-in 0
Kristin Ohm-Pedersen     Snow-in 0
Marla Weinheimer/Allen     Snow-in 0
Penny Jakobsen     Snow-in 0
Rhonda Schuller     Snow-in 0
Ryne Melcher     Snow-in 0
           
Jeremy Hill 24km   DNS -1
John Machray 24km   DNS -1
Kathy Nomura 24km   DNS  -1
Keith Nichol 24km   DNS  -1
Meredith Cale 24km   DNS  -1
Ryan Conroy 24km   DNS  -1
           
 *

Saturday or early Sunday start; please submit your times to get points.

 ** Picked up Garbage
 *** Event Host
 **** For rescuing Andrea and picking up stuff off the trail