Saturday, July 12, 2025
“What goes through the mind of a runner after a very tough 45k of effort, concentration and sometimes rough weather like last year, and with only three more kilometres to go? Exhaustion, yes, but also the adrenaline that gives you the confidence that your legs will manage the final descent...
I don’t want to jinx the upcoming training runs, so I will not mention how amazingly lucky we’ve been with the weather so far. So…we managed to get everyone to the start of this week’s run at the Cypress Mountain X-country ski area. It is not quite 3/4 of the...
Karen Chow’s first attempt recording training run videos. The faint repetitive clicking noise is the camera lens focusing on speedy runners. Oops, chalk this up to a learning experience. 😛 This album contains 14 videos showing runners nimbly scampered down Hollyburn Chute with a dash of humor. ? Note: The proceeds of all photo and video purchases are donated...
Below are Salvador Miranda’s two photo albums from Sunday training run. First album: Start of the training run at Cypress Cross Country Ticket Booth. Second album: Running across Cleveland Dam. On race day, this is the midpoint of the race. Note: The proceeds of all photo purchase are donated to North Shore...
Today was Shuttle Day! The first training run of the year where we meet at the finish area, and shuttle to the beginning (in this case, Cleveland Dam to run the last 1/2 of the BP). Many were initiated into the ways of coordinating nearly 70 runners into a variety...
I am not sure exactly how many years we’ve been doing the Knee Knacker Trail Day, but I still remember my first one back in ’03. We carried two large logs from Skyline Road to build a “bridge” across Mackay Creek…it was eventually washed out by the floods a couple...
