Victoria, BC – The Qʼs Victoria Track Series will have each race at all 8 meets, timed and sanctioned by BC Athletics, the governing body for the sport of athletics in British Columbia.

“Having BC Athletics Officiate the series will not only provide timing services to the participants, in addition any and all records broken will count. I am expecting many agegroup records to be attempted throughout the series, BC Athletics will be there to help certify those times.” -Christopher Kelsall

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Registration for the Gore-Tex Run3 is now open. The Run3 is a three day stage race which takes place at the same time and place as its bigger cousin, the TransRockies Run (GTTRR).

The competitors in RUN3 will run the first three stages of the GTTRR, starting in Buena Vista, Colorado and ending in Camp Hale, covering the first three stages of 21, 14 and 24 miles for a total distance of 59 miles. They will move through the high desert scenery near Buena Vista and through the highest landscape in North America reaching altitudes of more than 12,000 feet above sea level before finishing at historic Camp Hale.

As a new feature this year, RUN3 registrants have the the opportunity to upgrade to the full GTTRR experience should they find a compatible teammate before the event or find that training is going well enough to put six days within reach.

Click here for more information on the event.

Vancouver Island’s first cross country mountain bike race is this weekend at Victoria’s Hartland Mountain Bike Park. Details are as follows:

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Parks Canada has recently released a series of video clips which warn hikers of the potential dangers they might face on the popular West Coast Trail.

Dangers include falling, hypothermia, ocean swells, wildlife and getting lost. Up to 100 people are evacuated off the trail each year by boat or helicopter.

The videos will soon be made available on the Parks Canada Pacific Rim National Park website. And for more information on the trail click here or here.

Here’s another great race report from Trainharder’s “unofficial” event reporter from the province’s interior, Dirk Handke. This report is, in Dirk’s words, “THE CLOSEST THING next to have been there!”

CLICK HERE to read Dirk report which includes results from the event and lots of great photos.

For results from today’s race click here.

BC Athletics has again written a great summary report from the event and although we don’t like to copy on this site the first part of that report is included below…

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Kenyan Willy Kimosop, last years Sun Run winner who claimed to have done very little training through the winter while studying in Lethbridge, followed Ontario’s Dylan Wykes for 7.8K of Harry’s Spring Run-Off 8K in Vancouver. With the finish in sight, Kimosop demonstrated that he’d lost little of his track speed as he out-gunned Wykes to come home victorious by 2 seconds in 23:43. Behind Wykes, Victoria’s Scott Simpson was an isolated third in 24:41. Local Jerry Ziak finished fourth in 25:06, ahead of another Victoria athlete David Jackson, fifth in 25:09, and first master Mark Bomba in 25:54.

To find out who placed on the women’s side and to continue reading this report click here.