![2007-02-17 Mardigras Night Run 001](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/394236558_5be779d1b4_b.jpg)
17 February 2007
33 Starters - 33 Finishers
The weather forecast was for 100% probability of heavy rain. The trails were still a mess from the wind and rain storms in December and early January. It didn't look good for the Mardi Gras version of the Capilano Night Run! Frantic plans were made to come up with an alternative course cutting out the mudslides but still providing a challenge.
32 hardy runners weren't deterred by the obstacles and toed the line for the 5th annual Mardigras Capilano Canyon Night Run. Nobody took me up on the offer of a safer, alternative route.
Ean took of with the competitive, long course group. The group run folks were stuck with me and a very gentle pace. Amazingly, everybody stayed together until we reached the canyon. The rain that briefly pounded down on us at the start stopped and the temperatures were mild. Mist in the air reflected the beams of our headlamps and made for a spooky atmosphere.
My group split into two pace groups, the faster ones doing their own creative interpretation of the course descriptions once they were out of the canyon...they did miss aid station Adams and made us wonder if the bears had eaten them. The slower folks kept trusting my directions and the assurance that the nasty parts were almost over. We navigated over washed out trail and under fallen trees. I pointed out that they didn't take me up on the easy route.
Once refuelled and refreshed at aidstation Adams, the pace picked up and followed Bowser Trail back to the last 2km climb along Mosquito Creek. Perfect timing, as the slower competitive runners trickled in shortly after us.
At Club Fat Ass events we don't recognize the fastest runners, rather we acknowledge those who come from the furthest away, those who get lost, injured or who pick up the most trash along the trails. Carlos showed off his war wounds from a tumble he took. (Luckily, he is close to the ground to begin with ;-) Word leaked that Troy was the other contender of the Purple Heart Award (the best injury), but when we learned that he fell when trying to take a leak, nobody at the roaring potluck party had sympathy with him... but all had a good chuckle. Maybe it was good that Troy had to leave the party early?
I missed the hot tub (aka sauna) and dodge ball party at Harry Jerome Rec Centre, where everybody cleaned of the mud and had some fun. Pat, Michele and I headed to my house to prepare for the potluck. Thanks guys for keeping me company and helping to set everything up. And what a spread it was!
The potluck was in full swing at 10:00pm (I usually leave parties around that time) and the potluck table featured savoury food from chilie, soup, sushi, empanadas, pakoras, quinoa salad, chicken, green salads, sprout/cabbage/nut salad, spicy green beans and a yummy noodle dish. The deserts ranged from pies, homemade ginger snaps, poppy seed squares, fruits and cheese, nut- and banana breads to croissants filled with apricots and much more.
Thanks to NSA, Kinesys and Trailrunner we had a few prizes to give away. Farthest travelled went to Victoria's Carolyn Goluzza, although Craig was a close contender living around the corner but having driven to the airport and back (and missing the start) only to find out that his parents are arriving the next day...The Alberta boys didn't show...would have been a sweep for them. Pat won the prize for most Night Runs under her belt (4). We threw the last guest out around 1:30am and tucked the out-of-towner's into their sleeping bags in the guest room.
Thanks everybody for making this yet again a successful run and great party. Please add your own memories and comments below. If you have photos of the event, upload them to http://www.flickr.com, add them to the Club Fat Ass group and tag them with "CapilanoCanyonNightRunMardigras2007". They will automatically be added to the revolving photos below.
Please email corrections to the results to your Event Host:
First Name |
Last Name |
Event |
P |
Time |
Bill |
Dagg |
18km |
2 |
1:34 |
Ran |
Katzman |
18km |
2 |
1:34 |
Gary |
Robbins |
18km |
3* |
1:34 |
Ryan |
Conroy |
18km |
2 |
1:50 |
Carolyn |
Goluza |
18km |
2 |
1:50 |
Ellie |
Greenwood |
18km |
2 |
1:50 |
Ean |
Jackson |
18km |
2* |
1:50 |
Mike |
Rhodes |
18km |
1 |
1:50 |
susan |
seager |
18km |
2 |
1:50 |
Eric |
Stacey |
18km |
2 |
1:50 |
carlos |
castillo |
18km |
2 |
1:51 |
Doug |
MacKay |
18km |
2 |
1:51 |
John |
Machray |
18km |
2 |
1:52 |
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Troy |
Angrignon |
13km |
1 |
1:30 |
Kathy |
Banks |
13km |
2 |
1:30 |
Philippa |
May |
13km |
2 |
1:30 |
Craig |
Moore |
13km |
2 |
1:30 |
Steven |
Lamothe |
13km |
2 |
1:31 |
Karine |
Lavoie |
13km |
2 |
1:31 |
Donna |
MacIntosh |
13km |
2 |
1:31 |
Mikel |
Segal |
13km |
2 |
1:31 |
Arlene |
MacAulay |
13km |
2 |
1:37 |
Carl |
May |
13km |
2 |
1:42 |
Kathy |
Nomura |
13km |
2 |
1:42 |
Michele |
Sherstan |
13km |
2 |
1:42 |
Lara |
Taylor |
13km |
2 |
1:42 |
Patricia |
Barry |
13km |
2 |
1:43 |
Sibylle |
Tinsel |
13km |
3** |
1:43 |
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Baldwin |
Lee |
Custom |
2 |
1:30 |
Carl |
May Jr |
custom |
2 |
1:42 |
Ron |
Adams |
Crew |
1 |
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Luke |
Cooper |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Daniel |
Probst |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Andy |
Nicol |
|
-1 |
DNS |
David |
Crerar |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Michelle |
Fredette |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Andrew |
Hooker |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Tammy |
Lang |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Shona |
Miko Musgrave |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Kevin |
Rostek |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Rhonda |
Schuller |
|
0 |
DNS |
Theresa |
Snow |
|
-1 |
DNS |
Christy |
Tisdale |
|
-1 |
DNS |
* bonus point for garbage pick-up on the trails
** event host point
Comments
Thanks!
A great big "Thank you!" to Ron Adams for once again hosting a fine aid station at about the 1-hour point in the run.
Also, thanks to Stephen, Karin, Troy, Mike and Baldwin for a *fantastic* game of murder ball in the pool. My ears are still ringing from that direct hit you got on my head, Karin!
Troy's REAL version of the event
4030 of us gathered at the William Griffin Rec Center tonight to do the run.Sibylle threw me out of the short distance group, so Blue and I joined the tail end of the long course team. Thankfully Doug was at the end doing sweep. Then I stopped to wait for Doug...and lost the group entirely. So I joined up with Ryan and Ellie...and we got lost. We backtracked and found Craig who led us....onto the short course.
Finally we intercepted the Long Coursers, lost Ryan and Ellie to the LC team and Craig, Blue and I ran on through the night in relative solitude enveloped in fog. When Craig and I were almost done the course, I was attacked by a pack of coyotes that ripped at my flesh. One by one, I beat them off me, and ran to catch up with Craig. [Update: Apparently somebody at the party spread rumours that there were no coyotes and that in fact I tripped into a prickle bush that tore up my leg and hands after doing my business in the bush - the nerve of some people!]
The run ended about 1h 30 min later back at William Griffin, and was followed by a quick trip to soak in the hot tub at Harry Jerome. Lo and behold, the hot tub was out of order. Or they saw us coming all covered in mud and decided to put the sign up to stop us from muddying up their hot tub!
So, never a group to be daunted by such a thing, we created a game of six person, four ball murderball in the pool, much to the dismay of the lone swimmer in Lane 1 who we seemed to graze more often than he wanted.
Murderball was followed by a fantastic potluck at Ean and Sibylle's place. Unfortunately it looked like it was full swing when I had to hoof it back to get to bed so that I could get up early for a ride with a buddy.
Thanks for the great evening everybody!
Coyotes, eh!
Sounds like quite the adventure...where were your course instructions? BTW, you shared the award for most phone calls to the host with Michael P. No prize for that category.