Christopher Kelsall is back at it again with another fantasic interview, this time with BC athlete Jason Loutitt. This article was originally published on Flotrack and has be reproduced here with permission from Christopher.
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© Copyright – Christopher Kelsall – 2009
Jason Loutitt has lived just about everywhere in western Canada. He was born in Trail, British [...]
From CBC Sports:
Another 150,000 tickets for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler will go on sale on June 6, the Vancouver Organizing Committee announced on Friday.
Tickets for every sporting event, as well as the Opening, Closing and nightly Victory Ceremonies, will be available on a first-come, first-served basis online starting at 10 [...]
Race #2 of the Frontrunners GutBuster Trail Running Series presented by The North Face takes to the trails of Colliery Dam this Sunday.
Details are as follows:
GB002::Colliery Dam, Nanaimo by Mark Nelson
We are really excited to present a new course to you this year in Nanaimo. Dan Brady and the Runners of Compassion group have been [...]
PROJECT TRACK 21 (renovation of Parkland’s Track) – “Kick-Off Fund-Raising BBQ” – bring your family!!
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009 from 4:30 pm until 7:00 pm
Place: Parkland High School Track, 10640 McDonald Park Road, Sidney BC, V8L 5S7
Entertainment: – the Parkland Jazz Band; the marimba band MUFARO http://mufaro.ca/index.html ; roaming news media; information [...]
Following are some of the athletes write ups that have become available over the past few days. Results are available here.
Simon Whitfield – a solid weekend done and done – I love the intervals, long rides with the boys are fun, long runs in the woods are brilliant, swimming is….. meh. I really like the [...]
Results from the 2009 Oak Bay Half Marathon are now posted:
Individual
Relay
A number of athlete writeups are also available:
Yan Lyesin – Running portraits from the May 24, 2009 Oak Bay Half-Marathon.
Woman on the Run - Race Day – Too fast=long race - If there’s one piece of race-day advice I’ve retained since my first 10K clinic six years [...]
This is a final plea for a few more volunteers for the much needed marshal and Aid Station positions. In return for your time you will receive a free entry to any RTNS 2009 event and, for this event only, we are offering vollies in for a draw to win a pair of MONTRAIL trail [...]
New Westminster, BC – May 25, 2009. Perfect spring conditions prevailed for the record number of racers who participated in the Coast Mountain Sports Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race (MOMAR), held this past Saturday in Squamish. Bart Jarmula of Revelstoke was crowned the new MOMAR champion, coming in just ahead of current MOMAR Cumberland champ, [...]
May 24, 2009 – MOMAR 001, Squamish, BC
May 24, 2009 - Subaru Shawnigan Lake International Triathlon, Shawnigan Lake, BC
May 24, 2009 - Oliver Sprint Triathlon, Oliver, BC
May 24, 2009 - Rhythm of Life Run, Burnaby, BC
All athlete writeups from these events will be added to the site as they become available.
From Runner’s Web – OTTAWA – The 2009 Canadian Marathon Championships will be contested this Sunday in the nation’s capital as part of the Ottawa Race Weekend. The marathon also serves as the final qualifying meet for the 2009 Marathon World Cup team which will compete at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in [...]
John Ramsden over at the Steed Cycles blog has just posted a photo essay on his latest adventure mountain biking in Peru. The first part of his post has been included below…
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I am starting to think that this trip might be more tiring than a seven day stage race. Those 0500 hr wake up calls [...]
Results from the event can be viewed here.
NEW! Heather Hollman – North Shore Triathlon - Thankfully, lack of sleep and leg stiffness (from the 10 x 1km Run WO on Saturday morning and Crazy Doctor Dancing), didn’t seem to affect my race too much…
NTC Development Squad - 2009 North Shore Triathlon Results – Congratulations to our [...]
Results from this past weekened’s first Gutbuster trail race at Duncan’s Mt Tzouhalem are now available:
12K Long Course
6K Short Course
Want to get fit? Really fit? Following is some information on boot camps currently being offered by Access Boot Camp at David Lam Park in Vancouver. Class are held every Monday to Friday at 6am, 7am, 5pm and 6pm. If this sounds like something you’d be interested visit the company’s website at www.accessbootcamp.com or call 604.638.6996 for more [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY, U.S.A—Canada’s next generation of Olympic triathlon heroes stormed the podium by winning four medals in men’s and women’s races at the PATCO Triathlon Pan American Championships in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Saturday.
Victoria’s Kyla Coates set the pace early in the junior race consisting of the 750-metre swim, 20-kilometre bike and five-kilometre run, to post one of [...]
By Christopher Kelsall
The first Black Press 5000 (5 kilometre) race took place at the Jack Wallace Memorial Track (Oak Bay Track) May 15, under sunny skies and mild temperatures.
The main event featured one of Canada’s top runners, Langford’s Ryan McKenzie who runs for Pacific Athletics.
Ryan owns an impressive 5000m personal best time of 13:35. He [...]
The May 2009 Club Fat Ass Newsletter is now available on the Club Fat Ass website. Click here to view it. Highlights from this month include:
Listing of upcoming events
Recent club news
Past event results and reports
Information on upcoming contests
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Club Fat Ass is a grassroots sports club with a worldwide vision. Our members host running, triathlon, cycling [...]
[ July 27, 2009 to July 31, 2009. ] The Intermontane Challenge is a 5 day “cloverleaf” staged mountain bike race with the best singletrack of any race on the planet! The inaugural event will be held in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada on July 27-31, 2009 and is a “Must” for anyone who loves to ride!
For more information please visit the race website: http://www.intermontanechallenge.com/race_info.html
[ September 6, 2009; ] Run or Bike Solo or Team, 54Km in two laps, 95% single track, described by former participants as fast, fun, gnarly, scary, no climbing, no descents, rocky, many logs, muddy, wet, dry, tough climbing, steep descents, long, and the hardest event with the best trails anywhere. This may or may not be true, but we [...]
Last week Gary Robbins and Ryne Melcher ran the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, 47kilometers of knarly, mud-caked single track running between Bamfield’s Botanical Beach and China Beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island. His report from the run can be read here, and below is a video he put together. Be sure to check [...]
