Midnight Moose is a race that takes place at night, in Gatineau Park. They have various lengths to join -from 25 to 50, to 100, to 160km! Remi and I joined for the second year, in the 25k race.
This is a challenging race -You get up in the morning, go to work, go home, prepare dinner, eat, get ready for the big night, in our case, drive about 45 minutes, sign in, wait around until briefing time, and then start running. This year, the race's start and finish was at Camp Fortune - a ski hill in the area. Yup, you read that correctly. A ski hill. Which mean lots of running up and down a ski hill. You see, Ray, the race organizer likes to make us suffer =). He often will choose the most difficult routes... which is partly why I love their races - you know you will have to push yourself to the limit.
10pm arrives and off we go. Up the first side of the mountain, down, through single track technical trails, up and down again, around this bend, around the next bend, until we arrive at the top of a hill. We see lots of runners at the bottom of the hill, making their way up the next hill. We also see flags - with no runners... so off we go chasing the runners. Big mistake. None of those runners were on the right track! After going down this huge hill, and halfway up the other side, we turned around and went back up the way we just came to where the flags were. It became clear that is where we were supposed to be running!
We continued on to do King, around and about other trails to end back out at Fortune. This was a tough course. It took us 4hours and 20 minutes - would've been 4 hours if it wasn't for that mistake! Funny enough, I was more tired after this race than after doing my 50k. Will I do it again? Probably! I'm a sucker for punishment! 😂
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