12. NACAC Mountain Running Championships returns to Canada on July, 2015
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The 2015 NACAC (North American Central American Caribbean) Mountain Running Championships will take place at Cypress Mountain, http://cypressmountain.com/ located just north of Vancouver, BC, Canada, on Saturday, July 18.
Cypress Mountain Ski Area was one of the venues at the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympics.
This is the twelfth consecutive year that the NACAC Mountain Championship have been held, with the event rotating being the U.S., Mexico, and Canada http://mountainrunning.ca/ ." "This is the fourth time for Canada to serve as host, having been the venue for the championships in 2007 and 2010, at Canmore, Alberta, and 2012 at Cypress Mountain.
Race is an up and down race
This year&rsquo,s race route will consist of up-and-down terrain to mirror the format of the World Mountain Running Championships which are up and down in odd-numbered years and uphill-only in even numbered years.
The course will include loops at the top of the ski hill, rather than running from Horseshoe Bay to the top which was the route when Canada hosted the event at Cypress Mountain in 2012.
The proposed course for the men's race can be viewed at this link: http://5peaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Cypress-Enduro.pdf
Organizers suggest that the women&rsquo,s race will likely follow a similar route, but would cut off the first loop at the bottom (the Yew Lake loop).
According to race organizer Adrian Lambert, &ldquo,The course features some excellent terrain and should be a challenging course.&rdquo,
Both individual and team competition are staged, with nations competing head-to-head with one another.
Teams are comprised of up to four men and four women with the top two finishers scoring for their respective country.
Edited from Nancy Hobbs (WMRA)
Source of the pictures (LOC):
on front page:
- map of the venue.
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Cypress Mountain Ski Area was one of the venues at the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympics.
This is the twelfth consecutive year that the NACAC Mountain Championship have been held, with the event rotating being the U.S., Mexico, and Canada http://mountainrunning.ca/ ." "This is the fourth time for Canada to serve as host, having been the venue for the championships in 2007 and 2010, at Canmore, Alberta, and 2012 at Cypress Mountain.
Race is an up and down race
This year&rsquo,s race route will consist of up-and-down terrain to mirror the format of the World Mountain Running Championships which are up and down in odd-numbered years and uphill-only in even numbered years.
The course will include loops at the top of the ski hill, rather than running from Horseshoe Bay to the top which was the route when Canada hosted the event at Cypress Mountain in 2012.
The proposed course for the men's race can be viewed at this link: http://5peaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Cypress-Enduro.pdf
Organizers suggest that the women&rsquo,s race will likely follow a similar route, but would cut off the first loop at the bottom (the Yew Lake loop).
According to race organizer Adrian Lambert, &ldquo,The course features some excellent terrain and should be a challenging course.&rdquo,
Both individual and team competition are staged, with nations competing head-to-head with one another.
Teams are comprised of up to four men and four women with the top two finishers scoring for their respective country.
Edited from Nancy Hobbs (WMRA)
Source of the pictures (LOC):
on front page:
- map of the venue.
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