Race day at Mount Seymour

3:40am wake up call this morning…gotta love race mornings! It doesn’t matter if I am getting up at that time to go on vacation or go to set up for a race, it never feels quite right until I am well into my second cup of kick ass coffee. It could have been worse (and it has been), it was warm and most importantly, it was dry! It also felt weird to be applying sunscreen and bug spray at 4:15am, but that was the kind of day it was going to be. With the truck loaded with the last minute things, we hit the road at 4:33am.

We arrived on top of Mount Seymour just after 5:30am, as promised the sun was shining and the bugs weren’t all that bad after all (as long as you were standing in the sun). Set-up went extremely smoothly and the music or noise pollution as an extremely grumpy (I am being very nice here) hiker called it, was pumping by 7:00am. I would like to give a dumbass shout out to the boneheads who thought that it would be funny to mess with the route markers…thank you to our pre-runners Kevin and Linda for pre-running the race routes and fixing it all up.

With no other hiccups, I got through my race director briefing without hacking up a lung and started the race on time. Congratulations to the 416 racers who came out to play this morning, a special congratulations to Stephanie Hamilton who broke her own Enduro course record, which she set last year! A huge thank-you to all of todays fabulous volunteers, we couldn’t have done it without you.

So who is up for a road trip? Next race is at Whistler on August 21st.