As a blast-from-the-past, Karen Chow posted her final set of 2010 race pho­tographs from the Holly­burn Chute and Deep Cove sec­tions of the race route. When view­ing the photos, you should use the ‘Slideshow’ set­ting at its fastest pos­si­ble speed for the best expe­ri­ence as the images are orga­nized in motion-capture like sequences. Enjoy!

Hello all,

Over the next 3 months as we move towards race day, we’ll keep you posted with updates along the way. I’m very pleased to announce we have 3 addi­tional com­mit­tee mem­bers for this year – Dennis Marchant, Julie Flynn and Bev McKenna. Dennis will be help­ing with a number of the plan­ning, per­mits and oper­a­tional tasks, Julie will be lead­ing our Aid Sta­tion co-ordination and Bev will be lead­ing our Ban­quet crew this year. Wel­come Dennis, Julie & Bev!

With the flurry of the lot­tery behind us, this is the time of year when our key plan­ning really starts to kick in to full gear. This includes per­mits, spon­sors, insur­ance, train­ing runs, ban­quet, run­ners and vol­un­teer shirts, posters, aid sta­tions, trail work par­ties and con­tact­ing all of our vol­un­teers. We had some great feed­back from last year’s runner & vol­un­teer survey, so you’ll see a lot of the same things as last year with some tweak­ing along the way. For those of you who asked for the Knee Knacker ele­va­tion pro­file to be back on the run­ners’ shirts this year, it will be… and for all of you who waited patiently for the single porta-pottie last year, I have the com­pany owner’s per­sonal guar­an­tee he will ensure we get all that we ordered this year.

I’ve already had ques­tions about the ‘unof­fi­cial’ Wednes­day night train­ing runs, and it looks like these may be start­ing sooner than usual. As for the ‘offi­cial’ train­ing runs, these will start the first week­end in May & you can check out the sched­ule here.

As always, please keep in touch & happy training,

Kelsy.