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    ENDURO VS XC: SICK EDIT!
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Jul 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    ENDURO VS XC: SICK EDIT!

    Whistler Offroad Cycling Association's youth programs is one of the longest running and highly regarded youth programs in the Sea to Sky
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    WHY YOU NEED TO TAKE A LESSON
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Mar 25, 2017
    • 5 min

    WHY YOU NEED TO TAKE A LESSON

    I find it rather baffling, there is a very clear split in those who feel doing skills clinics and sessions is money well spent versus those
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    PRE SEASON TRAINING PLAN
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Jan 11, 2017
    • 4 min

    PRE SEASON TRAINING PLAN

    This won’t work for everyone, but I have tried to keep it as general as possible to work for as many of you who may be interested in doing i
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    MUDDBUNNIES: SILVERSTAR LADIES WEEKEND
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Sep 23, 2016
    • 2 min

    MUDDBUNNIES: SILVERSTAR LADIES WEEKEND

    For the second year in a row almost 60 ladies of all ages and ability levels descended on Silverstar Mountain to participate in the ladies o
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    TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Sep 6, 2016
    • 4 min

    TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?

    If you haven’t worked out what I’m talking about yet, maybe you have been lucky enough to never experience the feeling of being “burnt out”
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    JACVENTURE: JUNE 2016
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Jun 30, 2016
    • 1 min

    JACVENTURE: JUNE 2016

    More Coaching and more riding,  June was time to get the Muddbunnies Riding Club back over to Cypress to tackle the gnar, headed on a little
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    KEEP IT RUBBER SIDE DOWN
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • May 23, 2016
    • 3 min

    KEEP IT RUBBER SIDE DOWN

    In all honesty I’ve seen way too many friends injure themselves in the past year, and were they doing something outside of their abilities a
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    KISS: RE-EVALUATING YOUR GYM WORKOUTS
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Mar 15, 2016
    • 3 min

    KISS: RE-EVALUATING YOUR GYM WORKOUTS

    While I could go on and on about the idiocracy I’ve been seeing in the gym, I’d rather help you get the most out of your strength training w
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    IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD: A LOOK AT MENTAL TOUGHNESS
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Oct 2, 2015
    • 3 min

    IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD: A LOOK AT MENTAL TOUGHNESS

    I found out again that my body can go well beyond my mental perception of fatigue and tiredness. This is basically your brain telling you to
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    GETTING THE MOST OUT OF RACING
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Jun 3, 2015
    • 3 min

    GETTING THE MOST OUT OF RACING

    Since you’re reading this article, I’m assuming it probably is. How would you feel if I said that for the general population (i.e., the week
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    DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY, BUT MAYBE YOU NEED TO HTFU!
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Dec 2, 2014
    • 3 min

    DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY, BUT MAYBE YOU NEED TO HTFU!

    Why you need to HTFU and push yourself Yes, that’s what I said. Now let me explain a little bit more before you get offended. How did you g
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    THE BENEFITS OF STRENGTH TRAINING
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Sep 30, 2014
    • 3 min

    THE BENEFITS OF STRENGTH TRAINING

    This article originally appeared in Issue 3 of Mountain Bike for Her. Getting started is always the hardest part of any written form for me. Once you know who I am, and my generally bad sense of humor and unique writing style, we are both good, so let’s try and start from the beginning. I’m an ex-pat Aussie who moved to Canada at the end of 2007 as the final portion of my “change of life” plan. You may now wonder why this is so important. Well, put simply, this is the point i
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    SWEETLINES: GRAVITY GIRLS
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Aug 20, 2014
    • 1 min

    SWEETLINES: GRAVITY GIRLS

    Guest coaching for Kat Sweet of Sweetlines for her Gravity Girls week was a very awesome experience, these girls rip!  and here's the pr
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    THE AUSSIE DIARIES: JULY 8TH, 2014
    Jaclyn Delacroix
    • Jul 8, 2014
    • 2 min

    THE AUSSIE DIARIES: JULY 8TH, 2014

    Happily we called day two early as we had a fair drive ahead of us as the second part of our trip was to be spent at Silverstar.  Silverstar
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