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North Shore Athletics Fall Trail Running Clinic

September 1, 2015 by Jeff Pelletier No Comments

Join me for the Fall edition of North Shore Athletic’s trail clinic, running every Saturday for 10 weeks starting September 12th. We’ll be covering everything from shoes, gear, nutrition and hydration, to race strategy, trail etiquette, and backcountry safety, with shoe demos, nutrition samples, prizes, guest speakers, and more.

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Fat Dog 120 (+10) Mile Race Report: Just a Day, a Night, and Another Day

August 28, 2015 by Jeff Pelletier 2 Comments

My goal for the 2015 Mountain Madness Fat Dog 120 mile had been to finish strong within 32-35 hours. The race is said to be Canada’s most scenic ultra, starting in Cathedral Lakes and continuing through Manning Park on an almost point-to-point course with 8,673 metres (28,455 feet) of climbing through the Cascade Mountains. It’s also considered Canada’s Hardrock 100, and is one of the few races in the world tough enough to be a Hardrock qualifier.

It was to be my longest run ever, both in mileage and time on feet. If I could just pace myself properly through the first day, then make it through the night, I’d only have one more day of running. Just three shifts.

While I consider my race a success, things didn’t go entirely as planned.

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Here Goes Nothing at Fat Dog 120: Summer Training Recap

June 2, 2015 by Jeff Pelletier No Comments

It’s been a few months since I’ve posted a training update, but it’s certainly not for lack of having any training to talk about.

I had a successful run at the Sun Mountain 50 miler in May, where I nailed my goal of placing top 10, finishing in 7:47 for 6th place overall. This represented an hour improvement over my time from my first 50 miler there two years earlier, despite struggling with an ankle sprain.

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Sun Mountain 50 Mile 2015 Race Report

May 20, 2015 by Jeff Pelletier 1 Comment

My training was a little rocky leading up to the 2015 Sun Mountain 50 miler. The week after my first race of the year, the Diez Vista 50k in April, I managed to strain my left hamstring. A couple of weeks after that, I rolled my ankle pretty bad while running on some technical trail at night, resulting in a grade 2 sprain.

Rainshadow Running’s Sun Mountain was my first 50 miler back in 2013, and I’d always wanted to go back to see by how much I could improve my time. After getting injured at the 2014 Diez Vista 50k, I had to skip last year’s race, so there was no way I was going to miss out on toeing the line this year. I just wasn’t sure if I’d be able to finish. But if I was gonna run, I would aim for about 7:45 and top 10 overall.

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April Recap: VO2Max Results, and Dealing with Injuries

May 13, 2015 by Jeff Pelletier No Comments

The Diez Vista 50k in mid-April which was my first race of the season went pretty well, where I finished in 5th place. More importantly, I did so without getting injured like last year. But that didn’t last long!

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I’m a trail runner and filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC Canada.

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Our third day on the Tour du Mont Blanc would be o Our third day on the Tour du Mont Blanc would be our longest so far but would also be the most scenic. We began the morning by dropping down into Courmayeur, the site of the start and finish of Tor Des Geants. From there we actually followed the final 10k of the race route, all of which I’d run in the dark when I ran the race back in 2018. I had no idea this leg of the race was so beautiful!

The panoramic views continued throughout the day as we traversed the valley before dropping down into Switzerland and our refuge in La Fouly. We covered just over 40k with close to 2,100m of elevation gain in another 9 hours on feet.
Our second day on the Tour du Mont Blanc started w Our second day on the Tour du Mont Blanc started with a climb to Col du Bonhomme - a beautiful start to the morning. From there, we dropped down to Les Chapieux where we grabbed some food for the road. We then had a long, steady climb to Col de la Seigne with stunning views of glaciers the entire way. We stopped to eat at the summit before descending into Italy, passing by the famous Rifugio Elisabetta on our way to our own rifugio on a hilltop above the city of Courmayeur. We covered just over 38k with 2,200m of elevation gain in another 9 hours on feet.
We started the Tour Du Mont Blanc last week from C We started the Tour Du Mont Blanc last week from Chamonix, right at the future location of the UTMB starting line. Our route over the next 5 days would mostly follow the UTMB course, although we decided to skip the diversion to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in favour of climbing up and over Col du Tricot.

Our first day ended with a steep climb up to Refuge des prés where we settled in with a warm shower, a beer, and big meal. We covered 37k with 2,400m of elevation gain in just under 9 hours on feet.
Voilà, c’est fini! We arrived back in Chamonix Voilà, c’est fini! We arrived back in Chamonix on Monday after setting out on the Tour du Mont Blanc four days prior.

We covered more than 175k with close to 10,000m of elevation gain, as we travelled through Italy & Switzerland before returning to France where our journey around the Mont Blanc Massif began.

This trail was simply incredible. It was certainly busier and less remote than many of the long distance routes I’ve done in the past. But it’s pretty amazing to be able to move so fast and light through the mountains with the comfort of a shower and a warm bed each night, along with great food to fuel you along the way.

Can’t wait to put the film together from this one! Now to recover in Annecy as we begin our taper for UTMB. #tmb #tourdumontblanc
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Monte Bianco and the Rifugio Elisabetta during the Monte Bianco and the Rifugio Elisabetta during the Tour du Mont Blanc.
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