This past weekend I raced on a 5-women team in the 24 Hours of Adrenalin at the Canmore Nordic Centre. The registration for this event sold out in two days last year! I was honored to be asked to be a part of this team, as the other four girls are phenomenal athletes and I didn’t want to be the weakest link.

The race started at 12 noon on Saturday and ended at 12 noon on Sunday. My focus was to recover properly between each leg, and also to make sure I wasn’t going to dig myself into a hole for ski training, especially coming off a big volume week a week before.

The weather was great until about 4:30pm and after that I think we had 3 or 4 Thunderstorms which left the course super wet and muddy. So the night laps were more of a run then a ride. It was pretty awesome to stand in the exchange area and watch all the bike lights wind around the nordic centre, they kind of looked like jurassic park fireflys. After I came in from my lap I was told that a bear cub had found the gel wrappers at check point 2 and was licking them.

Our team won! Yay! and we managed to sneak away with only one flat, and a fall (me of course).

It was a great event, definetly football tailgating meets spandex clad enduro nerds!

Special thanks to Danelle and Luna Bar for organizing the team and providing us with tasty bars, gels, drink mix and some sweet skin suits.

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