“The 2015 NACAC Mountain Running Championships will take place at Cypress Mountain, http://cypressmountain.com/ located just north of Vancouver, BC, Canada, on Saturday, July 18.&nbsp,
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, 2010, (at Canmore, Alberta), and 2012 at Cypress Mountain. “
“The course will be an up-and-down course 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 route will include loops at the top of the ski hill, rather than running from Horseshoe Bay to the top &ndash, the route in 2012. The proposed course can be viewed at this link.
http://5peaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Cypress-Enduro.pdf
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 three finishers scoring for their respective country.&nbsp, There will be a prize purse of $3000 distributed to the top five men and women with $500 for first, $400 for second, $300 for third, $200 for fourth and $100 for fifth.
The Canadian team was announced earlier this month: http://mountainrunning.ca/news.php?id=81 (there is one substitution with Marianne Hogan replacing Megan Franks), and Team USA is listed here: http://trailrunner.com/trail-news/team-usa-announced-for-nacac-mountain-champs/.
Nancy Hobbs will represent the WMRA on site at the event.

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on front page:
– view of Cypress Mountain.

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