MOMAR Squamish - a great weekend!

I awoke Sunday morning with just an amazing feeling of "ahhh, it's over, I can relax." This past Saturday was the 4th annual Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race here in Squamish. After 6 months of preparation (including my tasks of race course design and vetting, permits, liasing with land holders and the community) it has all come to an end for another year. Gotta say, I'm exhausted!

However, what a great weekend. I love my involvement with MOMAR each year, it's my way to give back to an amazing sport that has provided me with so much enjoyment over the past decade. There was well over 200 racers on the start line, all coming here to push themselves and experience the great Squamish playground. This year, the course featured some of the classic trails as well as the most incredible brand new trail of 1/2 Nelson. Ted and Steve (the best trail builders ever) have been working non-stop over the winter to put this 3.5km burmy, twisty, smooth and flowy trail in! It's been the talk of Squamish for the past month and I couldn't wait to have the MOMAR racers experience it. The trail got rave reviews from everyone at the after party on Saturday night as well. Steve (owner of Bean Brackendale where I spend way toooo much time each day) was my course consultant. He helped me piece everything together, including a brand new O course made up of trails that no-one had seen before. And of course, I had to put the rappel off the top of Peak #1 in once again. Thanks to Squamish Rock Guides for doing a great job of getting everyone down the ropes!

Congrats to all the racers who came out and took on a solid day of racing! The smiles that I see out there and the "stoke factor" of when you've crossed the line is what it's all about. That makes me excited to start planning for 2011 and providing you with another fun and challenging race course. Race results and pictures are now up on the MOMAR website.

Also, no MOMAR could happen without the MANY volunteers. Thank you to everyone who contributed in some way, shape or form. Deron, Mike and Jamie did an amazing job managing their sections and making sure everything ran nice and smoothly. As always, it's a pleasure for me to work with Bryan (owner and founder of MOMAR) each year!

It was amazing that 2 of my team mates from nuun-Multisport made the trip up from Seattle to race with Dan and Jill on Team Trioba. They stayed around on Sunday to play - we hit the lake for some SUP ing and salmon BBQ ing! Oh, and if you are looking for another sprint race to tackle, the boys put on a great race south of the border at the beginning of June. Check out Trioba!

See you all back for 2011 - you can bet I'm already scouting!