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If you missed the Gunner Shaw in Victoria two weeks ago then here’s your chance to make that up with the 28th Annual Gunner Shaw Memorial Cross Country in Vancouver on Saturday December 3rd.
Vancouver’s Gunner Shaw is just as muddy as its Victoria counterpart. In fact this year looks like it might [...]
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Are you having trouble finding the perfect gift for the athlete on your Christmas list? Below are a 6 ideas, and if you have any other ideas please share them with us in the comment section below.
1. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis ($20)
Wade Davis’s newest [...]
An outstanding panel of speakers will discuss contemporary endurance training theory and practice from a range of perspectives. This conference aims to analyze and debate various endurance training systems, programs and approaches to help coaches better understand how to plan and develop successful endurance performances. Click on the flyer below for more information and to [...]
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Following is a collection of some of our recent favorite links to news, blog posts and race reports.
The New York City Marathon course record was recently broken by an astounding 2:37 by Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai. This continues a trend of record-setting marathons at big marathons in Boston, London, Berlin and Frankfurt. After years of little [...]
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Norm Hann, who standup paddleboarded along a proposed north coast BC oil tanker route, will be screening his Standup4Greatbear film at Granville Island’s Ecomarine Kayak in Vancouver on November 25th, 2011 at 7:00PM.
Norm paddled 400 kilometers on his standup paddleboard from Kitimat to Bella Bella to raise awareness of the dangers the proposed oil tanker route would [...]
This upcoming Sunday, November 20th sees the New Balance Fall Classic return to the scenic wide boulevards of UBC campus. The race is the last large road running event of the year in the Lower Mainland.
The 10k and half marathon courses are flat and fast with both starting at East Mall and finishing in the plaza of [...]
The GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon has announced its charity fundraising totals from the 2011 event. The combined total from the Times Colonist Charity Pledge Program, donations from the Victoria Marathon Society and participant donations totaled $319,500. The 2011 event was held on Sunday, October 9th.
The Marathon has four Official Charities: KidSport Victoria, Postmedia Raise-a-Reader, GoodLife [...]
The BC High School Cross Country Championships took place Saturday, November 5th on the local trails of West Kelowna’s Telemark Cross Country Ski Area.
A total of 566 students from across the province took part in the annual event. This year’s course was especially difficult with many steep climbs, grinding descents and icy, snowy trails.
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Video from the 2011 Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon Speaker Series are now available thanks to CHEK NEWS. The 2011 Speaker Series includes Tara Whitten, Lucy Smith, Kathrine Switzer, Bart Yasso and Trainharder blogger Marilyn Arsenault.
Although Yasso and Switzer are perhaps the most well known of those presenting, the Speaker Series featured the 2011 Track World Cycling Champion Tara Whitten, Canadian distance runner and [...]
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Check out this recently released trailer for the 2012 TransRockies Challenge! The Challenge takes place next July 28 to August 3, for more information on this epic event visit http://www.transrockies.com/trc/.
Below is a list of race reports from the inaugural Whistler 50 Relay and Ultra. More will be added as they become available.
Darin Bentley – Whistler 50 Mile - See, what did I tell you about who would win?? The last post I predicted Chris Downie would beat me. I can see into the future and it [...]
