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the same time. Can’t we go back to grade school when there was an allotted time for recess where it was required to go outside and run around for at least 20 minutes a day? No one tells you that disappears in your adult life, no fair!Then he did something that blew my mind completely, instructing me to the Seek the Peak training schedule that was posted on Grouse Mountain's website, I noticed the

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countdown is rallying local communities across Canada and the world to celebrate the spirit of the Games. The 24-hour event revisits the mountain’s momentous decision to remain open 24 hours per day for the duration of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games (17 days), showcasing the finest in snow sports and alpine recreation to international visitors and media from all time zones. Grouse Mountain was also the

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Station, 3,700 feet above sea level. Breathtaking panoramic views of the city, sea and surrounding mountains unfold, culminating with a summit altitude of 4,100 feet. Grouse Mountain was named by a visiting hiking party in 1894, after they encountered a blue grouse bird on the alpine slopes. Today, Grouse Mountain enjoys the status of Vancouver’s most visited attraction receiving over 1.2 million

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– RestTuesday – 10KMWednesday – RestThursday – 6KMFriday – RestSaturday – 4KMSunday – Race Day! Always keep that ever so important pace in the back of your mind. You don’t want to be running these shorter runs too fast or even worse too slow and have it throw you off come game time. Days of resting truly mean exactly that, take a load off and let your body recuperate. This schedule mixed with a wide variety

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dived into. There’s no better place to sit down, cone in hand and take in the sites around you. In fact it was the first time Kaylyn our youngest (11 months) sampled the cold yummy stuff. We stopped to watch the bears twice while we were up, Grinder and Coola were taking a cool dip. After some time watching them in their refuge one of the bears wandered up out of the water and sat sniffing the air

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, I still found myself grinning from ear to ear. Coming in six minutes and fifteen seconds faster than my 2011 time and achieving my own personal best time of 1:32 was and is an amazing high, especially for a kid who two years ago was setting out to beat cheeseburger eating records.If it wasn’t memorable enough to see that clock time as I crossed the finish line, I realized another sensation while

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Meet the Ambassadors Round Two... With the help of Columbia Sportswear we have launched our first year of the Grouse Grind Ambassadors program. We asked out to the Grind community, "Why do you Grind?" and were sent responses of every kind. Inspirational, recreational, charitable, you name it. With all these great responses, we were tasked to select only ten Ambassadors. Our new Grind Ambassadors

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quite a collection present. This stream of water over the course of the next half hour effectively cleared them all off and I obligingly stooped down and picked them all up. When it was over I had about $14 in change. It was truly an odd feeling standing there in the pounding rain hearing the plop plop plop of coins as they hit the grass. My knees are rebelling and I am now unable to spend as much

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Grouse Mountain Moment Contest Winners Read the winning entries in our Grouse Mountain Moment Contest. Congratulations to our Joshua Manuel from Vancouver - The Grand Prize-Winning Moment! Joshua Best Grouse MomentIn 2008, my 7-year-old niece was not feeling very well, and had recently returned home from the hospital. Earlier that week, I visited her in the hospital and I had given her a bracelet

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