Yeti #2 - Mt. Seymour

The 2nd Yeti of the season was held at Mt. Seymour on Saturday Jan 31st.  We were moderately unmotivated & grumbling about the 6:30 am ferry ride that morning.  After the ferry ride we made a pit stop for some breakfast snacks and then headed up to the mountain for the 11am start of the 10km Yeti race - we were wondering a bit what the heck we were doing... all feeling like a nice late saturday sleep-in would have been much more pleasant.  However, we arrived at Seymour in time to see some friends finish strong in the 5km (9:30 am start) race & they were excited about the course, telling us that the first part of the course was fast and downhill, and the snow was hard packed and pretty smooth!  The excitement started to build (as it always does) as we ran into friends and fellow racers during registration and warm-up.  The course provided an excellent challenge for all of us... with Jeff and Justin crashing into each other within the first 1km of the race (agro!), luckily they were laughing about it afterwards and enjoyed some good racing on course.  The route was up & down with many steep hills & some good twisty single track on the flats, times were fast and the conditions were great.   Carey and Justin pulled off 3rd place finishes in their categories (woot!) with the rest of us running in close behind them.

Racing for Team HHVI at Mt. Seymour were: Justin Mark, Carey Sather, Jeff Riemer, Kristenn Magnusson, Andrew Clark, Norm Barmeier and Trevor Davison.  We pulled off another team victory and also scored big on the door prizes at the awards ceremony!