My first race ever. I was taking the Sportmed BC "In Training" clinic in Mission -- to train for the Sun Run. All the clinic leaders kept talking about this race, which happened to be a couple of weeks before the Sun Run. So I signed up and did it as a practice. I never realized at the time that this would trump the Sun Run and become race #1 for me.

I started WAY too fast, and then crashed and burned. On the bright side, I learned my lesson and shaved a couple of minutes off my time at the Sun Run.