Ryan Conroy's blog

Anyone interested in joining me for a trip out to Penticton this Sunday for the Campbell Mountain X-Country Race, which is a 6.5 km trail race? We could go for a longer run after if it is too short for you. The race starts at 10:00 so it would involve leaving before 6:00 AM Sunday morning. I can drive if anyone wants to join me post a reply. Ryan

After missing the club run on Saturday due to being sick, Sunday I was feeling quite a bit better and decided to head out for a run.

Sunday morning I arrived at Lynn Canyon to find nobody waiting by the Baden-Powell trailhead. I thought I had gotten off easy, having gone down to injury in the Royal Victoria 1/2 marathon the weekend before and having been barely able to walk since then. I went and parked figuring I would just go for a hike along the route with my dog Shazam when Mel, a new Club Fat Ass member from Kelowna pulled up beside me.

We discussed the route and decided not to do the full 32 km as she only had 3 hours and with my hip injury we weren't going to be moving very quickly. She did mention how she could always 'cut back' if she was running out of time but that would be somewhat difficult from the top of the Hanes Valley. It was too bad our situations did not allow us to do the whole course because the weather was perfect, clear skies but not too cold for a fall day.

Does anybody know what the trail bars were at the turnaround of the Fat Ass 50K from the table run by Gottfried?  They were in a blue foil package which I stuffed into my pocket meaning to hang on to so I would know what they were,  but I must have thrown it out with my gel wrappers.  They were some kind of a mashed fruit product, maybe with seeds and nut mashed in there too.  I got a great amount of energy out of one bar and it seemed to sit really well in my stomach.