Mike and Melissa's Fun Run

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Agenda

Saturday 29 November 2008

06:00? Have breakfast. Check the weather . Print off your route instructions and this agenda so you know how to get to the start
08:00 Arrive at Bean Around the World (Have another coffee). Check-in.
08:15 Welcome and final briefing
08:25 Photo
08:30 Start
11:00 First finishers
12:30 The rest of us!

Directions to the start

  • The start is at Bean Around the World at Mt. Seymour Parkway and Mt. Seymour Road North Vancouver. Click here for a map.
  • Pre- and Post-Event at Bean Around the World
  • runners, volunteers, friends and family are encouraged to meet afterwards. We'll recognize the great accomplishments of the run, share war stories, photos, gather stats and otherwise enjoy each other and catch up.

What to Bring?

  • Aid. (Whatever food, water or electrolyte drink you need for the distance you are running and whatever clothing you need for the weather.) If you expect and are prepared for no external aid, you may be pleasantly surprised... but do not count on it!
  • printed course description in a ziplock bag
  • Your own official timing system (a watch). Please be sure to keep track of your finish time and to give it to the timekeeper.
  • A change of clothes for afterward.

Other Notes

  • please read the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  • Please, please, please do not drop litter on the trail. (Consider picking it up if you find any.)
  • It's a race if you want it to be, so we will keep track of your times so you have something to compare to next year. Please be sure to keep track of your finish time and to give it to the timekeeper.
  • We hope everyone will run the same course, but won't disqualify folks for getting lost and running extra distance.
  • This event is not sponsored, sanctioned, permitted or anything else that would qualify it as an official event.

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Make sure to bring the course description in a plastic bag to the run. There will be no course markings! For a printer friendly version scroll down and click on the link at the very bottom of the page.

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Course Description- Mike an Melissa's Fun Run

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08:00

Reference Point (RP) #0. –Bean Around the World 3734 Mount Seymour Parkway - Start / Finish
New start location! Start and end with a coffee and a visit with friends. Bottom of Mt. Seymour road on Mt. Seymour Parkway.

 


08:30

Start. Out front of Bean Around the World.

0.0

 


1. Up Old Buck to Mt. Seymour Picnic Area



- Follow Mt. Seymour Road till you reach the Old Buck Parking lot.
- Head straight up Old Buck till you get to the Baden Powell
- Turn right at the Baden Powell and take a quick left, you are now back on Old Buck
- Carry on up Old Buck and cross under some powerlines, keep heading straight.
- Steeply climb up Old Buck till you reach the paved Mt. Seymour road
- Cross Mt. Seymour road and look right to regain Old Buck
- Keep going up Old Buck looking for your first left.
- Head left and traverse this beautiful wooded trail till you reach the Vancouver picnic area.


09:15

RP #1. Mount Seymour Picnic Area (between kilometer markers 5 and 6)

 


 


2. The descent! Mt. Seymour Picnic Area to Twin Bridge

 



- Head out of the Mt. Seymour Picnic Area via the paved road that heads to Mt. Seymour road
- Cross the road, turn right and head up Mt. Seymour Road, staying behind the cement barrier.


09:20

- The entrance to Mushroom trail is on your left.

 



- Head down this loose rocky descent staying to your right, ignore any forks or trails to the left.
- Soon you'll pass through the historic Mushroom Parking lot on your right denoted by a white picket fence
- Stay right and take Ned's Atomic dust Bin trail. This is a steep mountain bike trail down so keep an eye open for mountain bikers!
- Keep descending Ned's and stay on the main trail. Look for a big GAP jump and other stunts!
- Once past the GAP jump and come across a few more stunts you are at the end of Ned's. Stay right and head downhill to 'Bottle Top'
- There is no obvious start to the new trail so just keep heading down!
- When you come to an intersection with another 'skidder road' look up at the sign that says '18' and turn right.
- Head up this trail and take the first left, this takes you up to a pretty plateau
- At the top of the plateau stay right on Bottle Top
- Head down Bottle Top all the way to Fishermans trail. This is a wide trail that follows Seymour river
- Turn right on Fishermans trail and cross over Twin Bridge on your left.


10:00

RP #2. Twin Bridge at Seymour River

 

 


3. LSCR Loop. This section is almost a complete loop utilizing some of the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve Trails

 



- Head West over Twin Bridge and turn right onto Fishermans trail (do not go uphill yet!)
- Follow Fisherman's trail keeping Seymour river on your right, go through the wodden gate at the bottom of Homestead Trail
- Still continuing up Fisherman's look for a small trail on your left that ascends quickly. This trail takes you up to Figure Eight trail.
- Head up this steep trail till you reach a plateau. Stay left and follow this wider trail.
- Following the wider trail for about 3 minutes stay right and cross a paved road.
- regain the trail on the other side of this paved road.
- This short trail will take you to a small gravel road, head right.
- You will reack another paved road, head left and follow this road for 1.2 kms. This is the paved Seymour Valley road.
- Nearing the end of this road there are outhouses on the right and a water tap near the 'Gazebo'
- This section is tricky. You want to follow the trail to the right of the round-about, but do not head steeply downhill.
- Take this wide trail following signs to the Suspension Bridge. DO NOT GO OVER THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE!


  - Get onto the Baden Powell and follow this trail down and across the 'board walks'
- Cross the board walks and climb steeply up the Baden Powell
- At the top of this climb the Baden Powell turns left, stay on the BP
- The BP will start to flatten out and then climb up to a gravel road. This is Lillooet Road. Cross the gravel road.
- Regain the BP on the other side of the gravel road.
- Follow the BP until it starts descending all the way down to a 'pipe bridge' that crosses Seymour river
- Head up the BP and turn left at the opening staying on the BP
- Follow a wide gravel path through a few wooden gates and stay left. You have left the BP and are now on Fishermans
  
  - Follow Fishermans with Seymour river on your left.
- Look for the sign post that indicates Bridle Path via Hyannis and turn right		  
  RP #3 - Final Stretch! Fishermans trail back for coffee at Bean Around the World  
  - Head up this wide well kept gravel trail until you reach a plateau
- Turn left and follow this rocky trail staying left for about 3 minutes
- Look for a trail 90 degrees to your right, this is Bridle Path (there is a sign post opposite the trail that is a bit confusing)
- Follow Bridle Path ignoring any minor trails until you cross a creek are in a clearing. Stay left at this junction.
- Travel a short distance and then turn right to regain Bridle Path
- Follow Bridle Path staying left as you start a small descent.
- Keep following Bridle Path until it turns into Horse Loop (this change will be transparent to you!) Basically you want to get to Old Buck.
- Turn right and head down Old Buck.
- Exit the OB parking lot and head down Mt. Seymour road.
- At the bottom of Mt. Seymour look to your left for the small mall that has that delicious Bean Around the Worls Coffee!!		  
10:00 RP #0 – Finish. Have a coffee, or drink and some food! 27

 

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M & M Fun Run - 2007 Results

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I think we had 19 people meet out front of Bean Around the World coffee shop just before we started the run. We have a photo to be posted soon in which we can count everyone! I kept saying to Melissa as we drove to the start that it was a 'grey day' but she thought I was saying it was a GREAT day with a quizical look on her face. As it turned out it was in fact a Great day and a Grey day!

The usual suspects toed the line and suffice it to say I only saw most of them at the start and at the finish! I have a quick story to tell about our friend Karl who only a short time ago was off for 5 months with a serious back injury. We has always been a great ultra runner but now he seems to have a very 'lively' spark in him. As if Karl wasn't positive enough about life already he's back and running at full force. I'm afraid he will not only be finishing the long 100 milers but I predict he will be finishing them very competitively. Keep up the good work Karl!

Nevee the wonderdog was back running her 2nd M&M in her life and had a fantastic time out there. She truly loves playing with all the people on the trail and is at this moment lying spread out on the floor exhausted from the run Saturday and subsequent hike today!

The rain held off and there were rays of sunshine at times on the course. The temps were in the 3-4 C range and quite enjoyable for running. Personally I was happy to be out running and enjoying the commraderie that these FA runs embody. Even though i haven't run with our friends for a while seeing them seemed like we haven't missed a beat.

Thanks for all who came out to do the Mike and Melissa's fun run. We really appreciate you coming year after year. Thanks to Sibylle and Trail runner for the 2 free yearly subscriptions that we have away as draw prizes. They were very well received!

Till neext year take care and we'll see you at the next Fat Ass event.

Michael Wardas and Melissa Pace

Group picture!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21683470@N06/2096288215/

Results
Colin tracked the route on his GPS checkout the link: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/dashboard.mb?episodePk.pkValue=4499158#

Sadly Colin recorded 24km where I was sure it was closer to 27km. I measured the whole route with my mountain bike 2 weeks before and got 27. So if there is anyone out there that can make a case for either one I'd love to hear it! If there are any errors with the times posted please let me know and I'll correct them.

First Name Last Name Event Time Points
Bill Dagg 27km 2:36 2
Tim Wiens 27km 2:36 2
Ran Katzman 27km 2:41 2
Carolyn Goluza 27km 2:41 1
David
 Crerar 27km 2:41
 2
Ean Jackson 27km 2:47 1
Colin Freeland 27km 2:48 2
Glenn Pace 27km 2:48 1
desmond mott 27km 2:53 3
Ann Taylor 27km 3:11 2
Michael Wardas 27km 3:19 3
Penny  Jacobsen
 27km  3:19
  3
Karl Jensen 27km 3:19 2
Rob Ruff 27km 3:20 2
laddie hannam 27km 3:32 1
Kim Taylor 27km 3:37 2
John Machray 27km 3:37 2
Amy MacArthur 27km ? 1
Baldwin Lee 27km 3:50
 1
Lorraine Suomi custom 2:00 2
Melissa Pace custom 2:00  
Berglind Hafsteinsdottir custom 2:08 2
Sarah Goring custom 2:08 1
Craig Moore custom 2:45
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Mike and Melissa's Fun Run - Results 2006

Well we were blessed with a break in the weather with temperatures around the freezing mark and partly cloudy skies. 
 
Mike and Melissa's Fun Run 2006 - Nevee in SnowThe snow on the ground was to vary from a few inches at the start to 6-12 inches in the higher elevations depending on whether you were 'on' or 'off trail'.  Here's a picture of Nevee the wonder dog strutting her stuff in the new snow that fell days before.
 
We had 17 Fat Asses toe the line with a number of members doing 'custom routes' either by choice or by circumstance.  We had one individual end up running down Mt. Seymour and get picked up by a Knee Knacker committee member and got a ride to our house!
 
One of the things that we love about these runs is that they are not competative and always bring everyone closer together.  Well maybe the fornt runners were competetive but the rest of us had a great time.  The conditions warranted some 'alternative foot gear' to accomodate the snowy conditions. Check out photos here!
 
Off to the Aid Station a short climb later.  We were greeted by Berglind (who was injured but wanted to help anyway) and her good friend Deborah.  These little angles supplied us with hot chocolate, water, York peppermint patties, Santa Jube-jubes, Christmas coloured M & M's and chips.  What a menu!
 
The post run is always the highlight of the Melissa and Mike's Fun Run!  Melissa ran a short distance with us so she could be home to prepare the fertada and other goodies that were to be consumed by our running friends.  this year's run added about 40 minutes on average to the finishing times.  Tim wore a GPS and officially pegged the distance at 30km!  Well so much for a 26km trail run!  30 sounds so much better anyway.
 
Thanks to all the runners who came, and the volunteers that perservered the cold.  We also like to thank North Shore Athletics, Kinesys and TrailRunner for the prizes and Sibylle for obtaining the Body Worlds passes.
 
Until next year thanks a lot and see you out on the trails...
Melissa and Michael - M & M Fun Run 2006

Thanks to Tim Wiens who measured the course with his GPS.  He writes:

"Hi Mike & Sibylle.  I have attached a map and elevation chart of today’s run in case you are interested.  The GPS distance was 29km.  From the map it looked like the GPS lost lock for about 15 minutes, a half hour from the finish.  So It’s possible that the distance was around 30km. 

In case you didn’t get the times, Bill, Chris, Ran and I finished together at 3:25.  Des finished at 3:34. 

Thanks for a great event!

Tim

First Name Last Name 1/2 way time final time Course Points
Berglind Hafsteinsdottir Volunteer!   2
Desmond Mott 1:45 3:25 30km 2
Bill Dagg 1:45 3:25 30km 2
Tim Wiens 1:45 3:25 30km 2
Ran Katzman 1:45 3:25 30km 2
Chris Benn 1:45 3:25 30km 1
Doug Keir 1:50 3:41 30km 1
Michael Wardas 1:50 3:41 30km 3
Stephen Keeley 1:50 3:48 30km 1
Jim Mandelli 1:50 3:48 30km 1
Karl Jensen 2:22 4:31 30km 3*
Gilles Barbeau 2:22 4:40 30km 2
John Machray 2:22 4:40 30km 1
Lorraine Suomi - 1:55 Custom! 2
craig moore ? 3:25 Custom! 1
Patricia Jensen 1:50 3:27 Custom! 1
Baldwin Lee 3:15 4:50 Custom! 2




 

2005 - Year 4


The third annual Mike and Melissa's Fun Run was a complete success! A fun, hilly, rocky run through the trails of lower and upper Seymour Mountain.
Jim and I drove up Mount Seymour to drop off the van to act as our un-manned aid station. We were welcomed with a glorious clear, crisp day of about 2C with a little ice on the road and crunchy trails underfoot, promising to be a spectacular day for a run!
Melissa and I welcomed 21 runners into our home (one soon to be Fat Ass) to get signed up, organized for the run, drop off food for the pot luck and most importantly use the facilities! It's great having a run like this it really connects us to our friends that we haven't seen for a while and gives us a great opportunity to visit. What sport can you participate in that you can actually catch up on someone's life while participating?! Not many I'm sure.
The race briefing was 'brief' as everyone brings their own set of printed instructions and course map only if they think they need it. The only real item of note was that we now had a 'manned' aid station as our good friend Peter 'Popular' would make his way up Seymour to hand out hot chocolate, water, pretzels, Santa jube-jubes, brownies, bananas, oranges and baklava to runners who wanted to partake in the goodies! Some runners arrived before Peter was set-up and were content to keep hammering as they didn't want to linger even though Pete would be ready shortly. I think Patrica, Bill and Glenn were there in about 1:20-1:30.
Pete also took a picture of our motley threesome of Jim, myself and Rob as we did a modified route. Heads up for next year: we will probably run the trail that starts where the van was and traverses parallel and downhill to Mt Seymour road. You take a right down perimeter trail to Mt. Seymour road, cross the road head up the road a bit and take a left down Upper Old Buck.
I have to say that personally that was probably one of the best runs in terms of connecting with my friends that I have had in a while. I admit however that I'm not in the best of shape and that running that far (or long) was a challenge for me. Lots of work to do before the big runs this summer! Some people didn't show the strain and came in really fast with times of 2:42 for Patricia and Bill, 2:47 for Glenn (with some question as to a 'short cut' ) and 2:59 for Desmond. To give credit for the ladies that had the most fun and stayed out there the longest was Sibylle, Michelle and Cheryl with a time of 5:10. For full results scroll down (will be posted ASAP)
The after party was absolutely awesome! I get back to the house and there is a casserole from Cheryl in a crock pot plugged into our outlet outside in the carport ... awesome! We enter the house and the smell of Melissa's tortiere fills the nose! She abbreviated her run so that she could prepare the delicious dish for our guests. Everyone contributed something to the pot-luck, Baldwin even provided 2 dishes, one pot of soup and he made in our kitchen 'sweet potatoe pie'! Delicious! Thanks to all who brought something to share, it's a real testimony to the spirit of the Club FA.
Well another successful event has taken place and we had a wonderful time having our friends in our home and sharing the great outdoors and our favorite trails.
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Cheers,
Mike
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Points First Name Last Name City/Town Country Event Time
2 Bill Dagg Vancouver Canada 26km 2:52
2 Patricia Jensen North Vancouver Canada 26km 2:52
2 Desmond Mott North Vancouver canada 26km 2:59
3 Michael Wardas North Vancouver 26km 3:15 - Scouting next year's route
2 Rob MacDonald Burnaby Canada 26km 3:15 - Scouting next year's route!
1 Jim Mandelli North Vancouver 26km 3:15 - Scouting next year's route.
2 Baldwin Lee Burnaby Canada 26km 3:25
1 Yifat Farah Israel 26km 3:48
2 Doug MacKay North Vancouver Canada 26km 3:48
2 Geoff Palmer Coquitlam Canada 26km 3:48
2 Berglind Hafsteinsdottir Vancouver Canada 26km 3:50
1 Laddie Hannam North Vancouver Canada 26km 3:50
1 Carlos Castillo Victoria 26km 3:50
2 Karl Jensen North Vancouver Canada 26km 3:50
1 Neil Ambrose Maple Ridge 26km 4:36
1 Carolyn King Maple Ridge 26km 4:36
2 Cheryl Johnson Pitt Meadows Canada 26km 5:10
2 Michele Sherstan North Vancouver Canada 26km 5:10
2 Sibylle Tinsel North Vancouver Canada 26km 5:10
1 Glenn Pace North Vancouver *26km *2:47 - Possible short cut?
2 Craig Moore North Vancouver Canada *26km *3:37 - *Riverside short cut!
3 Melissa Pace North Vancouver 12km 1:10 - Mod. route to prepare post run!
-1 Dom Repta Vancouver Canada 0km No show - Bad Dom!

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2004 - Year 3

Finisher List

Name Hometown Loop 1 Time Loop 2 Time
1 Bill Dagg Vancouver, BC 2:52
2

Desmond Mott

 North Vancouver, BC 3:09
3 Ann Taylor North Vancouver, BC 3:11
4

Melissa Pace

 North Vancouver, BC

3:39
4 Berglind Hafsteinsdottir North Vancouver, BC 3:39
4 Peter Poburan North Vancouver, BC 3:39
4 Glenn Pace North Vancouver, BC 3:39
4 Kevin Hatfield Georgia, USA 3:39
9

Ken Hardinge-Rooney

 New Westminster, BC 4:42

Name Hometown Custom Distance
Mary Betts Surrey, BC 6:10 got lost
Jennifer Winiarski Maple Ridge, BC 6:10 got lost
Allan McMordie North Vancouver, BC 3:00 shorter loop
Colin Freeland North Vancouver, BC 1:48 shorter loop
Dom Repta Vancouver, BC 1:30 got lost
Terry Lewis North Vancouver, BC 1:30 got lost
Laddie Hannam North Vancouver, BC 1:20 shorter loop
Ean Jackson North Vancouver, BC 1:19 shorter loop

17 starters
17 finishers


Photo: Melissa at pre run briefing

2003 - Year 2

This event was first hosted in 1999.  We did it again in 2000, took a breather, and revived it as a Club Fat Ass event 29 November 2003.

  Name Loop 1 Time Loop 2 Time
1 Matt Sessions 3:27 dnf (6:27)
1 Ron Swirid 3:23  
2 Bill Dagg 3:23  
3 Colin Freeland 3:23  
4 Jacquie Trudeau 3:25  
5 Desmond Mott 3:25  
6 Michael Wardas 3:27  
7 Melissa Pacé 3:27  
8 Mary Leliveld 3:27  
9 Doug Kier 3:27  
10 Glenn Pacé 3:27  
11 Derrick Johnson 3:27  
12 Ean Jackson 3:27  
13 Kathy Nomura 3:28  
14 Craig Moore 3:35  
15 Julie Matteau 3:43  
16 Mike Palethorpe 3:43  
17 Keith Nichol 3:43  

18 starters
18 finishers

note:  Matt Sessions was the only person to attempt 2 loops.  He got in a good run, but didn't complete the second loop
 


2000 - Year 1

  Name Loop 1 Time Loop 2 Time
1 Randy Hunter 2:44 5:29
2 Ted Russo 2:50  
3 Chris Paterson 2:55  
4 Mathew Sessions 2:57 6:23
5 Curb Ivanic 3:02  
6 Duncan Coo 3:02  
7 Greg Ambriac 3:03  
8 Melissa Gillard 3:03  
9 Michael Wardas 3:03 6:56
10 Jeff Austin 3:12  
11 Dave Beckley 3:13  
12 Craig Moore 3:14  
13 Terry Sayyari 3:40  
14 Don Prince 3:40  
15 Harvey Nelson 3:40  
16 Calla Romses 2:28  

16 starters
16 finishers
 

Background

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This event was first hosted in 1999. We had 6 people. We did it again in 2000, took a breather to develop the Dirty Duo and revived it as a Club Fat Ass event in 2003.

Thanks!

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Our hope is to make this event totally self-supporting. In other words, do all of the organization beforehand and also participate. This would be an impossible dream without a lot of behind the scenes help. Many thanks to:

TrailRunner: Thank you for the 2 gift subscriptions to your popular magazine as draw prize. Also for offering members of Club Fat Ass a special discounted subscription price

Sibylle Tinsel - Club Fat Ass www.ClubFatAss.com: Club Fat Ass helps the race with web hosting, online registration and coaches us on how to host a safe, fun, environmentally-friendly event.  

Please contact us with your thoughts.

 

FAQ

Q: I don't want to run, but I'd like to help. What might I do?
A: You're a hero! If you can make the time, we can find you something to do as part of the event crew. Some thoughts at crew tasks.
   
Q: It's the weekend. Responsibility or work of any ilk does not appeal to me any more than having a root canal would. Is there any other reason why I would want to participate in this event?
A: Sure. The whole objective of the day is get to the potluck party. You can always start there.
   
Q: If I decide to run, what should I bring?
A: Whatever you'd normally wear for a run of the distance you select to run given the conditions of the day. You can expect winter conditions! Don't forget to print out the run route directions, directions to the start and to bring a bathing suit if you plan to use the hot tub or sauna at the Ron Andrews rec center
   
Q: Are there aid stations? Can I have a beer en route?
A: We recommend you come prepared to run without external aid. There may be aid stations, but only if your family and friends step forward and offer to organize them. (See aid.) Since this is an 'unofficial' event, there are no rules as to what you may or may not eat or drink en route. Best to bring 'special needs' in a plastic bag with your name on it just in case there are aid stations. =;-)
   
Q: What can I win?
A: Nothin. Fastest man and woman TO FINISH THE COURSE get bragging rights. All participants and times go up on the web for posterity sake.
   
Q: I've never done a trail run before. Is this a good place to start?
A: Probably not. Theses routes were designed for the seasoned trail runner. If you are determined to participate and don't have the recommended background, we suggest you do one loop with a buddy this year, and come back to do the whole enchilada next year.
   
Q: How tough is the course?
A: Tough question to answer! How far are you running? How fast? How well are you trained?

The long course has been carefully crafted to challenge the elite ultrarunner. We recommend you have a few 50 km trail runs under your belt before you try to tackle the ultra (2 loop) distance.

A single, 26K loop also requires more than dexterity with the remote control. It's not as far, but it's still 26 km of