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Bigfoot Fall 2009 CONTRIBUTE TO THE NEWSLETTER! WE WELCOME: - EVENT INFORMATION, RESULTS, AND REPORTS F ALL 2009 B IGFOOT R UNNING Bigfoot Prints C LUB A DDRESS : B OX 131 C RANBROOK BC V1C 4H7 www.bigfootrunning.ca WelcomeBigfoot Members Our New to thePresident! Rescue! [email protected] Submitted by Sheila McDonald INSIDE THIS ISSUE: In the heat of August, our to get help. Leaving his dog plywood. Leaving a note two sons, Grant and Steve was an emotional and diffi- in the dust on the rear Enduro Run 2 along with their friend and cult moment for him. gate of the truck: “Took Ironman 2009 3 Bigfoot stalwart, Herb At the parking lot Don your plywood. Dog in- Weller, set out to hike from tried to phone for help, but jured. Thanks!”, they the Mause Creek trailhead, his cell was out of the ser- lugged the heavy ply- Book Review 4 Racer Highlights through to Cliff Lake. vice area. He hopped into wood back up the hill. My husband, Don, was to the truck and drove down (see photos) World International 5 drive the three hikers to the the hill until he could get When Don arrived back, Triathlon trailhead, return to Cran- through to me with instruc- Teke’s new friends had brook and then, at 4:00 pm, tions. Back at the trailhead, him strapped to the board Random News 6/7 pick them up at the foot of he raced up the hill to Teke. and were beginning the the Cliff Lake trail on Van He cannot adequately de- struggle of carrying him Creek. All would have scribe his feeling of grati- down the hill. With Don gone well, except … Don, tude when he arrived to find taking over one end of the avid hiker, could not Teke safe and sound in the the plywood, Barb and okay. Thanks.” resist starting up the trail care of two hikers: Bigfoot Nadja on the other end, Don later admitted that with “the boys”. His inten- member, Barb Fode, and and Teke calmly letting by the time he had ar- tion was to turn back after her friend, Nadja Baron. them do what they had to rived back to be with ½ hour as his companion, Barb and Nadja had found do, they managed to Teke, he was drained; he Teke (our 13 yr old Shep- Teke alone on the trail. As reach the parking lot. was beyond thinking. herd) has a hip weakness Barb put it, “…and your Upon replacing the ply- Although only a young and on hills that is his limit. dog just gave us the big ol’ wood, Barb added to her 80 years of age, the emo- Unfortunately, life felt so puppy eyes...we knew we original note in the dust. tion and extra exertion good up in dem dar hills had to help him” and, help “Returning wood. Dog continued on page 2... and Don and Teke were so they did. enjoying every minute of They could their hike that an hour had not budge passed before they turned Teke and so, as back. with Don, this Ten minutes into the re- meant a rush turn trip, Teke’s rear end trip down to began to give out. Don their vehicle to managed to coax him a find something little further but twenty with which to minutes from the truck, transport an Teke could go no further. injured dog. Don tried everything in- Nothing. How- cluding an attempt to carry ever, in the his ninety pound buddy. truck parked Finally, in desperation he next to them, left Teke on the trail and they spied a ran down to the parking lot large piece of Nadja and Don resting before taking Teke across a bridge. P AGE 2 F ALL 2009 Enduro Run Submitted by Daryl Calder Upon lining up for the Enduro start wasn't even mad at me in the end. Kimberley area. Thanks again to line photo, I'm sure some of us were Congrats to Chris and Tanis who JoEllen, Rocke and Dave for thor- chuckling at the sight of backlit must have 'endured' a breakneck ough course layout and muffins. cycle shorts being displayed by our pace. Also re-assuring to attract Bigfoot... tough to beat! intrepid photographer and web dil- some powerful runners from the ettante. Luckily for us, the good Dr. RR had unwittingly yet effec- tively scattered all bears and forest critters from the community forest on his pre-race ride to ensure Big- foot runner safety. Our tour guide, Dave, thoughtfully posi- tioned himself mid-pack, but there wasn't much to see. A lot of trees went flying by; panting runners could only concentrate on the nar- row, sinuous trail ahead. Ms. 'speedy' Sleik set a stubborn pace, climbing hills like a true 'Iron per- son'. I tried desperately to keep Joanna in sight for the final 3000m. Had to pull out all the stops and slip into 'now or never' top gear for the final downhill mogul field. Speedy Bigfoot to the Rescue continued... had exhausted him. His admiration rence of this for Nadja and Barb – their complete experience, control of the situation, their physi- Don never cal fitness, their gung ho attitude takes his best and their total commitment to Teke friend beyond and the task at hand was above and where he can beyond admiration; it was truly quickly reach heartwarming and reminded us both him by car. that this is still a very beautiful, Oh, yes. One caring world. more thing… Barb’s modest response to our the three hik- thanking her and Nadja? “No wor- ers? Well, ries... It (the experience) added to they had a making our day a little adventur- great day! ous!” How is Teke today? Well, amaz- ingly, with a daily dose of glu- cosomine and a daily dose aspirin, Barb borrowing some plywood he has stretched his strength so that he can now hike further than ½ hour up a hill, but to avoid a reoccur- B IGFOOT P RINTS P AGE 3 IRONMAN 2009 This was a busy year for Bigfoot my knee warned me to be cautious. The including Olympic distance races in members to complete Ironman events. climb to Yellow Lake tops out at just Lethbridge and Wasa and a Half Iron- In June local athletes Tim Fix, Rob above 2500 ft at 155k before another man in Osoyoos. These races helped us Veg, AJ Brekke, John Nielsen and Jen fast and furious descent into Penticton hone our skills and also help test our Beswick completed Ironman Coeur at 180km. Whaddya mean I still have fitness levels each month. In June we d’Alene and in August Malcolm Sar- to run 42.2 km???? went to Penticton to ride the bike course gent, Paul Grayhurst, and Ryan and 5:27:25 This flat out and back run and really had a chance to feel what Joanna Sleik completed Ironman Can- course was made for speed, just not 180km with almost 2000m of elevation ada. Paul Grayhurst raised $3800 for from me on that night. The knee pain gain feels like. Needless to say it was a the Alberta Children’s Hospital Founda- plus very smoky evening air combined little unnerving. tion in memory of his Nephew Josh and to slow me way down. You know As the summer went on we had some Ryan and Joanna raised $2800 for the what…. I was also having too much fun great runs along Kootenay Lake and Canadian Cancer Society in memory of kibitzing with the volunteers and talking around the Cranbrook area as well as a Joanna’s mother. We all have our own to other runners to really push myself couple memorable training rides, in- reasons for completing the event and hard. There were just too many amus- cluding riding both sides of the Creston below are some snippets of some of our ing, interesting people to enjoy. I’d Salmo Pass in 35 degree heat! thoughts and experiences. have to ignore them to really concen- Race day came quickly and the excite- Paul Grayhurst trate on this run. Once I realized I was- ment and nerves hit us hard. All of our n’t going to come close to my earlier In the final days before the race there training was about to come to fruition goal of 14 hours I just focused on hav- and the hardest part was waiting to start. were times of such nervousness that I ing a good time. Besides a guy has to wondered why I was doing this. This save enough for that final sprint through We woke at 4:30am to calm waters nervousness would alternate with cocky the downtown crowds towards the and clear skies. The swim start was enthusiasm but would eventually swing finish. amazing as 2600 of us took the plunge. back to “scared.” However from the We even managed to run into each other moment that starter’s blast went off at on the return leg! The bike was an ar- 7:00 a.m., there was nowhere else I duous task but we paced ourselves well wanted to be and nothing else I wanted and ate and drank as much as we could to do. I was blessed to be “in the mo- tolerate along the way. This was where ment” for the next 14 hours and 42 min- I finally felt in my element and Joanna utes and three seconds just tried to keep on spinning! The run 1:30:05 That was how long it took me was where things got really interesting.
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