Hometown: Duncan, BC
Nickname: Seegs
Staple Foods: Massive salads & Triple Americano Coffee's
Vice in Life: Being outside 24/7
Favorite Weekend Play Destination: Bellingham, WA and Chilcotin's, BC
Favorite Winter Training Ground: Southern California
Greatest Challenge: Finding free time
Newest Challenge: 1000+km running expeditions in Fall 2012
Top picks for Trail Runners: Salomon S-Lab
If I had time, I would ... spend a few months in Nepal running
Almost every morning I .....drink my coffee, check in on my athletes, head to the Challenge by Choice studio and tackle my training!
I know I have improved... my mental discipline in all aspects of life
Jen's Story...
Ever since discovering the multi-sport world several years ago, Jen has dedicated her life to becoming a top endurance competitor. Racing professionally has enabled her to travel the world, meet incredible people and most of all, challenge and push her body in ways she hadn't thought possible. Over the years, she has worked hard and is now racing with and against the best endurance athletes in the world.
In 2011, Jen finally opened the doors to her own High Performance Training Studio in Squamish (www.challengebychoice.ca) She now maintains a very busy schedule striving to train full time, coach at the studio and work a full roster of global endurance athletes.
Over 9 years ago, Jen joined the Salomon family just before heading to her first solo ultra, the Marathon des Sables, a 250km stage race in Morocco. Ever since then, Salomon has supported her dream of trail running, adventure racing and expeditioning around the globe. Today, Jen is fortunate to continue to race for Salomon at both the National and International level. She also races for USA adventure racing team, nuun-SportMulti and for With races springing up around the globe, Jen is constantly on the road, moving from airport to airport in search of adventure, challenge and new experiences.
Over the past few years, Jen has become involved with Impossible2possible, an organization committed to using global adventures to inspire youth to protect the environment. She is proud to be a mentor and role model for the younger generation and in particular, young woman. Jen is a certified ACE personal trainer, specializing in endurance. She has spent the last several years coaching athletes around North America to assist them with achieving personal goals. Alongside coaching, she is a race director for the Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race – Squamish event and more recently, Loop the Lakes Trail Race, also in Squamish. Jen is the co-founder of PaddleFit, a combination workout of Stand Up Paddleboarding and dry land conditioning. Jen is an editor at large for Breathe Multi-sport Magazine and has had features appear in Canadian Running Magazine, Trail Runner and Impact.
When not training, Jen enjoys spending time at the local coffee shop in Brackendale catching up with friends and planning for her next adventure. Jen see’s the glass of life as half full and the things to do on her “bucket list” continue to grow daily.
