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July 2010

DNF’ing the Tahoe Rim 100 miler – Reports from Two Racer’s Perspectives

Victoria ultrarunners Rob MacKay and Donald Peterson recently travelled south to race in the Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Mile Endurance Race. The race is legendary and takes place on high elevation alpine and sub-alpine forest trails and dirt roads in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Unfortunately Rob and Donald both dropped at 80 miles but their [...]

Fat Dog 100 Photos & Results

The inaugural Fat Dog 100 ultramarathon was held last weekend in Southern BC. Congratulations to everyone who gutted it out to the finish. Even those who had to drop faced incredible adversity in one of the toughest ultras ever held on BC soil.
Trainharder’s crew took part in the race. We manned the Heather aid station and made sure [...]

Victoria’s Ryder Hesjedal 7th at Tour de France

From the Victoria Times Colonist -
In the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe came personal triumph on Sunday for Canadian Ryder Hesjedal.
The 29-year-old cyclist placed seventh overall and delivered the best result by a Canadian in the Tour de France since Steve Bauer of Fenwick, Ont., finished fourth in 1988.
After 3,641.9-kilometres of heavy spinning over [...]

A Race Report from Canada’s Largest Open Water Swim: Kelowna’s Across the Lake Swim

The following report is comes courtesy of Trainharder’s official interior reporter Dirk “IKE” Handke. Thanks again as aways Dirk!
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What is the ACROSS THE LAKE SWIM all about ?  2010 was the 62nd year of this longest continuously running open water swim event in BC, which got started 1949 as part of the KELOWNA REGATTA. With [...]

Victoria Track Series – Tarrant, Phillips take Canadian Records

VICTORIA, BC – Maurice Tarrant of Victoria and Herb Phillips from Vancouver competed in the 5th meet of the 2010 Q’s Victoria Track Series each racing the mile. Both broke the Canadian record. Tarrant ran a time of 7:14.7, bettering the 80 – 89 record of 7:16.9. Phillips ran 5:48.6 for the Canadian 70 – [...]

Jul 18, 2010 – Peach Classic Triathlon Results

Olympic Distance – http://raceheadquarters.com/results/2010/multi/PeachClassic2010Olympic.html
Sprint Distance – http://raceheadquarters.com/results/2010/multi/PeachClassicSprintTri2010.html

Victoria International Track Classic Results

[From Victoria News]

Diane Cummins shines at the 22nd Victoria International Track Classic.
Even though Diane Cummins 800m performance at the Victoria International Track Classic was electric, no one can blame her for being a little conflicted.
Cummins won the 800m event, a race she chose to compete in despite her concentrating on the 1500m distance. Not only [...]

Test of Metal and Pendrel Give Back to the Kids

[From the Test of Metal website] SQUAMISH—Test of Metal Inc. and 2010  women’s champion, Catharine Pendrel,  have teamed up to help some of Squamish’s up-and-coming mountain bikers in their efforts to get to the Mountain Bike National Championships in Canmore, Alberta on July 17-18.
Pendrel, a three-time Test of Metal winner, got things started when she [...]

Greenwood smashes Knee Knacker Women’s Course Record and newcomer Campbell takes Men’s title

West Vancouver, British Columbia – Saturday, July 10th marked the twenty-second annual running of the Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run (a.k.a. “Knee Knacker”). Good weather greeted the runners and volunteers on this occasion with clear skies in the morning and warm temperatures throughout the day. Course conditions were excellent, with minimal snow in the high country [...]

Jul 11, 2010 – Desert Half Iron Triathlon Results

Professional Men – http://raceheadquarters.com/results/2010/multi/DesertHalf2010ProM.html
Professional Women – http://raceheadquarters.com/results/2010/multi/DesertHalf2010ProF.html
Overall – http://raceheadquarters.com/results/2010/multi/DesertHalf2010.html
Relay Teams – http://raceheadquarters.com/results/2010/multi/DesertHalf2010Relay.html