BC Marathon Series # 2
This was one of the races I was excited about for this year. It’s the only one where the race is in the trails that are out my back door that I know very well and has some great fun technical riding!!
After days and days of rain – the weather gods were looking out for us and brought in some great sunshine just for this one day! We all gathered at the start line. I saw a couple of girls I had not seen before, all decked out in Trek gear with bikes I never knew could come as light as they were!
The start proved a surprise for everyone where we had to drop our bikes and run in the other direction. About a 400m run back to the bikes, then straight onto the newly built bmx track for some fun on the burms and jumps to a tough little climb – the pack was getting spread out already and heart rate was up to 181 already!
We went into Richard Juryne Trail for a tough climb. A trail that can be mostly ridable on a fresh day on your own. But with a line up of riders, made it tough, so it was mostly a hike a bike. This race was going to prove to be no time for recoveries. We moved into Circuit 8 trail and dropped down to the river over to Bridle. Was a clean good start and the pack spread out really well. Worked hard through bridle and the new trail and over to old buck 20min climb to Severed. My back was killing me and didn’t climb so well.
Severed downhill was in a pretty wet and tough state but managed to have a clean run down and was stoked with how I was going. This lead into a tough hike-a-bike. I felt like I needed an extra lung!! Heart Rate still over 178. I was coming into bottle top, knowing Richard was going to be waiting at the bottom for me to come out. Another clean run. I hit fishermans trail, and found out I was in third with the 2 girls ahead being the Trek Girls, with one only 30 secs ahead. Richard climbs homestead with me – a tough steep climb. I was hurting but could see her ahead. I pushed hard knowing the finish was almost here. She saw me coming and was pushing hard too. At the top of the climb we both took off, she enters the last trail still in sight. I work hard back up Richard Juryn trail, for the last decent ….. 12 seconds behind her in the finish line with a time of 2hr 25mins …. So close!!
The girl that won, was 6 mins ahead, to find out she came 2nd at the last Canada Cup and is on the Canadian National Team! So was all good with that …. Lol! Was impressed with both of their technical riding considering they were not locals and probably not familiar with these trails. I was happy with my 3rd place finish.
2 weeks until Test of Metal – the next big one.
Top 3 Results:
Mical Dyck 02:22:04 (Trek Canada) Victoria
Joanna Harrinaton 02:28:24 Whistler
Megan Rose 02:28:36 (John Henry Bikes) North Vancouver
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