Sunday Runners (Left to Right): Rick, Steve, Carlos, Tim, Rea, Bill and Dave
Saturday Runners (Left to Right): Melody, Jamie, JP, Rea, Carlos, Baldwin, Julie, Sukhi, Bill, Dave and Steve.
Well, I volunteered to host my first CFA event, and got off to a great start by not showing up! An inflamed tendon, (probably something to do with completing two 100 km races last month) meant I was happy to accept Bill Dagg’s offer to lead the Stormy training run Saturday. Thanks Bill! Eleven showed up including Carlos from Victoria, and Julie all the way from Seattle. Julie ended her run a bit early after a fall required her to visit a clinic for some stitches. Baldwin and Carlos decided to run a bit extra, after missing a couple of key turnoffs, and managed to find other parts of the course to deviate from. They ran 6:33. The rest ran 38 km, with the first runner coming in at 4:11.
I showed up Sunday for part two of the Brick, a 28 km run taking in the rest of the Stormy course minus the Nine Mile Hill loop. Bill Dagg and Rick Arikado finished first at 3:23, with the rest of us not too far behind. I ran about half this with the six runners who did the run, missing out on the bear sighting. The tendon flared up and I discovered that hopping on one leg down technical trails doesn’t work too well. Rea, a nurse, was kind enough to provide an ice pack at the finish which was greatly appreciated. By the end, the sun had come out, which made for a pleasant drive back to Vancouver after the usual post-event party at the Howe Sound Brew Pub.
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Great day of running on Saturday - thanks for making that happen Bill. Good fortune running into each other downtown.
Good group of people out today, and had a good pace with my running mates. Sukhi had an impressive day after a 50 miler last weekend. Jaime will kill his Stormy fifty no doubt.
Sorry to hear about the injury Tim, but thanks for putting this together.
Cheers to all!
JP
Thanks to everyone for a great weekend at "The Brick." Yea my toyota key is still out there for somebody to find.
I wrote up a small story on my thoughts pertaining to the weekend feel free to give me some more entertaining input on ultra marathoners dos and donts.
Submitted by Homer W Holmes on 23 June, 2008 - 08:22.
Nice camera job !Your getting better with that camera ! I ran or should I say crawl the Kusam Klimb on Sat, saw the Juan de fuca gang there , training run for me. I going threw a detox and flushing of my system right now dealing with low energy!! Time for 23km .. 4700ft of elevation ..4hr 17min , beautiful views, lots of snow, run across rivers, great weather, old growth forest, good friends ,awesome Carlos, off to Sinister 7 in 2an ahalf weeks
Cheers Brad
So Baldwin and yours truly did our extra bit for "The Sport". After an eventful but interesting first day of the "Brick" W/E up here in Squamish BC.With the little error mid-run, and a major fall with blood for one of our party. I had to donate my bandanna for the leg dressing.Hopefully our friend got it looked at.(I have pictures ) all will be chronicled at a future date. Put us down for "Custom" distance @ 6:33:02. Oh yes and we also picked up a whole whack off trail trash. Roll on tomorrow... I still love this sport!
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Good times!
Thanks for a great weekend!
Thanks to everyone for a great weekend at "The Brick." Yea my toyota key is still out there for somebody to find.
I wrote up a small story on my thoughts pertaining to the weekend feel free to give me some more entertaining input on ultra marathoners dos and donts.
dave
http://daveelger.blogspot.com/2008/06/squamish-brick-ultra-experience.html
Nice Blog there Dave
How was it !!
A comment after the first day by Carlos