Mutha's Nature Trail Run - 2010

 

3 October 2010 - 11 Starters

Report: This year's running of Mutha's Nature saw overcast conditions, but luckily despite there being not a sky in the cloud, the rain held off.  Perfect running conditions, especially at these low elevations, while for those who skipped it to go bagging, not so much.  A good day for a 'shit-bag' I guesss though.

Unfortunately life happened, and aside from working until 3 in the morning the previous night, I had to go move some large heavy stuff immediately afterwards, so I had to switch from the 50 k to the 10k, and draw prizes were given away at the start.  Turned out my ankle was giving me some grief so doing the shorter course was not a bad idea after all as it was pretty sore after as it is.

Everyone started off together in the short run through New Brighton Park, and out through the tunnel to the Trans-Canada Trail.  Shortly after that people began to settle into their pace and broke off into small groups.  I had stopped at my car and came up from behind.

On the way past I talked to Reagan, who was out for his second Mutha's Nature after completing the 10K last year as his first Club Fat Ass Event after he had just recently started running.  Turns out this year he was doing the 25K, maybe by next year we'll have officially turned the poor guy into an ultra runner!

I pulled ahead, and Eric settled in behind.  We headed under the Second Narrows Bridge together and then up the side trail that adds a bit of elevation and a tiny bit of extra singletrack into the course.  As we came down the other side, a group of four runners lead by Sibylle came up from behind.  I guess they had missed the turn, naughty, naughty, fat-asses!  Oh well, it is a bit unnecessary anyway, maybe next year I will remove it to simplify things a bit.

Anyway we continued along the Trans-Canada Trail, and shortly after I lost everyone.  When I got to Confederation Park, I was suprised to see that one of the sketchy downhills I had worked so hard to put into the course was sporting a new staircase.  I ran through the lower loop, and along the railroad track and back up, and when I arrived at the intersection, I could see a large group of runners looking at the staircase quite puzzled.  Sorry guys, news to me too!  It doesn't look nearly as much like a sketchy hill when its got a fancy brand new staircase I know.

At the top of the Confederation Park Loop was where my turnaround was, but I was pleased to see so many 25K runners.  The run back was uneventful but fast, the out section is flat to uphill, and the back section is flat to downhill so you can really get going if you still have some juice left.

I arrived back at Confederation Park after 46 minutes of running, and Sibylle was waiting there.  She had turned back after 20 minutes because she was nursing an injury.  We shared ankle injury stories and waited to see if any of the 10K runners would show up.  Unfortunately time started ticking by too close to when I had to be on my way to Surrey, and we both had to leave before anyone got back. 

Anyway, sorry to all participants I was not able to stick around after, but I have recently moved from a house into a 1 bedroom condo, and a friend who is letting me store some outside stuff at a property they own was available only at that time to load the stuff there as they work days and I am in the middle of 10 late night shifts straight.

I hope all had a good time, and if there are any comments/concerns about the course directions (especially if you notice anything that is unclear or unnecessary) please let me know.  When I created the course it was an attempt to run through a part of town where there are very few trails, on trails as much as possible.  So there are many short stretches of varying terrain and it is hard to make sure there is enough info to follow the course, but at the same time so that the directions are not 10 pages long.

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Results: coming soon

First Name	Last Name	Event	Points	Time
Jim	Swadling	50km (53.8k)	2	6:35
Chris	La Rose	25km	2	3:21
Eric	Rannaud	25km	2	3h39m
Dana	Samis	25km	2
deavah	yerxa	25km	1
Reagan	White	25km	2+1	4hrs 11min
Jessica	Glowacki	custom	2	2:07
Pamela	Keck	custom	2	2:07.
Ryan	Conroy	10km	2+2	0:46
Jess	Dagg	10km + detour	2+1	1:15
Sibylle	Tinsel	custom	2+1	0:40
reza	ghazizadeh		-1	No Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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