Golden Ears 5 Peaks Trail Running Series

I know what you are thinking because even I had no clue what I got myself into. This race was SO technical that I almost bailed out. I will tell you what I meant by that. Trail running is supposed to be nice and good for your legs BUT not at Golden Ears. After the race, I was told that this year's course was different than the previous years. Talk about giving you heads up...gee! We had to run through raging water from waterfalls, mud, more mud and more water with rocks underneath where you have to be so careful not to slip and be sucked by the strong flowing-like river! I am not kidding you!!! Of course, I was wet running in soggy shoes. This race would be the last for me until I try the last 2 series which are Whistler and Buntzen Lake. By then, the weather is drier and less WATER. But even then, I will try to see how I feel. You probably are thinking that I didn't have a good time at this race but overall, I wouldn't say it that way. Despite the fact that I went through the water and mud, the weather was magnificent! No complaints there. I always think without a nice sunny weather, no matter how good the race is, I still wouldn't enjoy it. I guess doing this race after all wasn't that bad if you know what I mean :) Here are the results which I'm not that proud of but I guess I have to tell you because I have been putting up the results on the other races I have done. So here it is, I came 190th overall out of 255 with a time of 1hr 05mins (96th/154 for females and 36th/52 for my age group). Now, the next result that I'm telling you is the best. Ray did extremely marvellous for his 3rd year with 5 Peaks and came in 3rd overall out of 255 at a unbelievable time of 42:13mins (3rd/101 for males and 2nd/41 for his age group). This was my first time that I ever raced Golden Ears. If I do this race next year, I'll be better prepared and maybe get a better time. Getting wet and stuff wasn't that fun. Oh well, until then, maybe I'll stick with road races.

Vancouver Sun Run

Does anyone know why Vancouver has been voted to be one of the best livable cities in the world? Well, the answer is simple and I'm sure everyone knows the answer. It is because we have a very beautiful city with mountains and water with easy access and wonderful sunny weather just like today. Definitely, another amazing year for the Vancouver Sun Run. Two years in a row, we had nice sunny weather and what more can we ask for than that. I am sure proud to participate in this highly popular race again for the second year. Another successful year with a record of 54,317 registered runners. It was incredible. I couldn't believe the number of people inside BC Place. It was so crowded that you really don't want to be losing each other now. But I sure had a good race, better than last year. I was so glad that I was in the yellow section which basically started at 9:05am instead of 10:15am last year!!! I had a PB at about 56:08mins and Ray had his PB too at about 40:30mins!! Fast, eh? My brother, William and Ray's niece, Alexis and her friend, Jasmine came out too and did the race. My sis-in-law, Yun also came out and supported and cheered us on. We all had fun. I will post the results soon. Check back here later.

Update(Apr 17/07): Here are the race results that was just posted online on the Vancouver Sun Run website. I came in 8984 overall out of 42650, 366 out of 2860 in my age group and 2381 out of 24103 for females. As for Ray, he came in 489 out of 42650 overall, 65 out of 2313 in his age group and 429 out of 18547 for males. Keep up the good work, Ray!! I am pretty happy with my performance considering that there were more than 40,000 participants. I think I did pretty darn good, don't you think so??? :)

Harrison Hot Springs

I had the privilege to do a little getaway from the city on this Easter long weekend. In fact, Ray and I went to Harrison Hot Springs on Thursday night and stay there a night. This was our second time there. We really love it there. It sure was an awesome stay at Harrison Hot Springs Resort and Spa. They have their own pools inside the hotel to help you relax after a stressful week at work. It did help me for sure because I was really looking forward to dipping myself in the mineral hot spring pool. The hotel itself is also very appealing because of the friendly staff and the affordable rooms. We are thinking of going back this summer and hopefully my family will stay over this time. There were about 20 people including my family that came up to meet us on Friday and we did the picnic thing at Sasquatch Provincial Park which was located about 10km north of Harrison Hot Springs. The weather turned out to be sunny and warm at about 22degC. What a big change of temperature from a week ago!! Everyone was so tired after a long day of countless activities like hiking, running, playing frisbee, swimming/dipping in the pool, etc. Wow...I was just tuckered out but I had so much fun. Now, I can't wait for summer to come and to do more things. :)