We would like to thank Trainharder blogger Chris Price for kindly writing this report on last weekend’s World Snowshoe Classic on Vancouver’s  Grouse Mountain. This report is titled “Seek the Peak V3.0“:

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A couple of weeks ago, I faced a bit of a dilemma.

My training goals and my race goals clashed on the last weekend of February and in order to get in the time I needed on my Saturday run, it looked like I may have had to miss out on a unique opportunity to run in the World Snowshoe Classic which also doubled as the National Championships.

The race was open to anyone, and I thought it would be neat to partake in such an event during the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.  Pondering my options on a walk into work one sunny morning, my plan came to me as I spied Grouse mountain in the horizon as I paced through the West End.

Last summer I had used the run from my apartment in English Bay in a couple of variations in order to get in some longer runs with a decent elevation gain and on remembering these runs my plan for Seek the Peak v3.0 was born.

My intention, to run to the top of Grouse Mountain, race in the Snowshoe Championships and then run home.

This is how it all went down…

Continue reading on Chris’s blog…