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Seymour Super Fun Run - 2005 - Year 4


The third annual Mike and Melissa's Fun Run was a complete success! A fun, hilly, rocky run through the trails of lower and upper Seymour Mountain.
Jim and I drove up Mount Seymour to drop off the van to act as our un-manned aid station. We were welcomed with a glorious clear, crisp day of about 2C with a little ice on the road and crunchy trails underfoot, promising to be a spectacular day for a run!
Melissa and I welcomed 21 runners into our home (one soon to be Fat Ass) to get signed up, organized for the run, drop off food for the pot luck and most importantly use the facilities! It's great having a run like this it really connects us to our friends that we haven't seen for a while and gives us a great opportunity to visit. What sport can you participate in that you can actually catch up on someone's life while participating?! Not many I'm sure.
The race briefing was 'brief' as everyone brings their own set of printed instructions and course map only if they think they need it. The only real item of note was that we now had a 'manned' aid station as our good friend Peter 'Popular' would make his way up Seymour to hand out hot chocolate, water, pretzels, Santa jube-jubes, brownies, bananas, oranges and baklava to runners who wanted to partake in the goodies! Some runners arrived before Peter was set-up and were content to keep hammering as they didn't want to linger even though Pete would be ready shortly. I think Patrica, Bill and Glenn were there in about 1:20-1:30.
Pete also took a picture of our motley threesome of Jim, myself and Rob as we did a modified route. Heads up for next year: we will probably run the trail that starts where the van was and traverses parallel and downhill to Mt Seymour road. You take a right down perimeter trail to Mt. Seymour road, cross the road head up the road a bit and take a left down Upper Old Buck.
I have to say that personally that was probably one of the best runs in terms of connecting with my friends that I have had in a while. I admit however that I'm not in the best of shape and that running that far (or long) was a challenge for me. Lots of work to do before the big runs this summer! Some people didn't show the strain and came in really fast with times of 2:42 for Patricia and Bill, 2:47 for Glenn (with some question as to a 'short cut' ) and 2:59 for Desmond. To give credit for the ladies that had the most fun and stayed out there the longest was Sibylle, Michelle and Cheryl with a time of 5:10. For full results scroll down (will be posted ASAP)
The after party was absolutely awesome! I get back to the house and there is a casserole from Cheryl in a crock pot plugged into our outlet outside in the carport ... awesome! We enter the house and the smell of Melissa's tortiere fills the nose! She abbreviated her run so that she could prepare the delicious dish for our guests. Everyone contributed something to the pot-luck, Baldwin even provided 2 dishes, one pot of soup and he made in our kitchen 'sweet potatoe pie'! Delicious! Thanks to all who brought something to share, it's a real testimony to the spirit of the Club FA.
Well another successful event has taken place and we had a wonderful time having our friends in our home and sharing the great outdoors and our favorite trails.
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Mike
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Points First Name Last Name City/Town Country Event Time
2 Bill Dagg Vancouver Canada 26km 2:52
2 Patricia Jensen North Vancouver Canada 26km 2:52
2 Desmond Mott North Vancouver canada 26km 2:59
3 Michael Wardas North Vancouver 26km 3:15 - Scouting next year's route
2 Rob MacDonald Burnaby Canada 26km 3:15 - Scouting next year's route!
1 Jim Mandelli North Vancouver 26km 3:15 - Scouting next year's route.
2 Baldwin Lee Burnaby Canada 26km 3:25
1 Yifat Farah Israel 26km 3:48
2 Doug MacKay North Vancouver Canada 26km 3:48
2 Geoff Palmer Coquitlam Canada 26km 3:48
2 Berglind Hafsteinsdottir Vancouver Canada 26km 3:50
1 Laddie Hannam North Vancouver Canada 26km 3:50
1 Carlos Castillo Victoria 26km 3:50
2 Karl Jensen North Vancouver Canada 26km 3:50
1 Neil Ambrose Maple Ridge 26km 4:36
1 Carolyn King Maple Ridge 26km 4:36
2 Cheryl Johnson Pitt Meadows Canada 26km 5:10
2 Michele Sherstan North Vancouver Canada 26km 5:10
2 Sibylle Tinsel North Vancouver Canada 26km 5:10
1 Glenn Pace North Vancouver *26km *2:47 - Possible short cut?
2 Craig Moore North Vancouver Canada *26km *3:37 - *Riverside short cut!
3 Melissa Pace North Vancouver 12km 1:10 - Mod. route to prepare post run!
-1 Dom Repta Vancouver Canada 0km No show - Bad Dom!

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mmmmmm good

Submitted by Craig (not verified) on 27 November, 2005 - 23:15.

Mike & Melissa ... the day was great, the friends were friendly as always and the food was mmm mmm good! thanks everyone 'cause I was very hungry when I got back (after showering and changing). I still like going up Ned's better than down and I'm looking forward to the change in route for next year. This year I decided to have a look at the old route as I returned via Riverside Drive, basking in the sun peeking through the shadows and wondering what people were thinking as they watched me run in shorts and t-shirt on a chilly nippy day (It was much warmer though down by Seymour River than it was up on Seymour Mtn) ... see you all at Pure Satisfaction on Dec 11 .. sign up now and get the last of your Fat Ass Points for the year ;)

missed it

Submitted by dom (not verified) on 29 November, 2005 - 09:26.

Hey

The pics are a bit blurry, but was there one of the Montrail team dudes at the run-I can see a Team montrail/patagonia shirt on one of the runners. Too bad I missed it.

Yes-bad Dom-I was a no show. After thinking about it, I thought 26 km was to long (that is right, I said it) when I am trying to get ready for snowshoe racing which is only 10km. So, I stayed in bed, got up, had a fruit smoothie, some pancakes and a soy latte, Read the paper under a blanket and then went out for a 1.5 hour run, then an easy bike and later into the hot tub.

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Mystery Montrail Guy

Submitted by Sibylle on 29 November, 2005 - 09:40.
What's up Dom?  Having a mid life crisis?  Since when is staying in bed an option when you could run 26km on wicked trails in the sunshine....Should have brought your smoothies and pancake along to the potluck and shared with us ;-)

BTW, I think Glenn Pace wore Montrail stuff...


Still runnin' don't worry. I

Submitted by Dom (not verified) on 30 November, 2005 - 13:44.

Still runnin' don't worry. I was up at Cypress last night and it was epic. Jackson apparently has a job now and the snowshoe crew decided his grace period was up and we left him to wallow in a work meeting while we were waist deep in face shots.

Maxing out at two hours over the winter unless it is epic snow.

Hope you can all race at the Yeti races this year-it is a blast.



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Poor Jackson

Submitted by Sibylle on 30 November, 2005 - 13:54.
Yeah, Jackson didn't get of his phone meeting until past 8:00...

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What a day!

Submitted by Carlos Castillo on 27 November, 2005 - 18:13.
Thanks Mike and Melissa and family for letting us all into your home, and hosting a great event. The trails are even more beautiful than I remembered. Going that way around, with "Nick's", up, and "Old Buck", down makes a lot of sense. I loved chatting to everyone during the run, I'm sorry, but I run alone a lot. When I get a chance to talk, I talk! Hahahahaha.... See you all soon, I hope. Carlos (from Victoria)
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Great Run!

Submitted by Sibylle on 27 November, 2005 - 19:48.
Hey Carlos, not so sure if I enjoy going up Ned's....? But I have to agree that the course and company was great.  Sorry, I missed you at the party - we enjoyed the course so much that we stayed out a long time.  Thanks for leaving some food ;-)

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