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.
We would like to thank Trainharder blogger Chris Price for kindly writing this report on last weekend’s World Snowshoe Classic on Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain. This report is titled “Seek the Peak V3.0“:
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A couple of weeks ago, I faced a bit of a dilemma.
My training goals and my race goals clashed on the last weekend of February and in order to get in the time I needed on my Saturday run, it looked like I may have had to miss out on a unique opportunity to run in the World Snowshoe Classic which also doubled as the National Championships.
The race was open to anyone, and I thought it would be neat to partake in such an event during the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver. Pondering my options on a walk into work one sunny morning, my plan came to me as I spied Grouse mountain in the horizon as I paced through the West End.
Last summer I had used the run from my apartment in English Bay in a couple of variations in order to get in some longer runs with a decent elevation gain and on remembering these runs my plan for Seek the Peak v3.0 was born.
My intention, to run to the top of Grouse Mountain, race in the Snowshoe Championships and then run home.
This is how it all went down…
Continue reading on Chris’s blog…
The Orcas Island 25k & 50k is one of the first trail ultras of the year and as such always gets a good turnout. This year’s race was no different and as usual a large number of BC runners headed south of the border to sample the trails.
So far we’ve found three race reports from the event:
Preliminary results for both the 25k and 50k are also posted on the event blog. Click here for 25k results and here for 50k results.
Results from today’s Cedar 12K are now posted – http://pih.bc.ca/results/Series.php?race=172.
Nick Best has posted his race report here. Check it out…
Gary Robbins’ long awaited race report from the Hawaii HURT Trail 100-mile Endurance Run is now done! Many thanks to Gary for allowing us to post on Trainharder…
By the way be sure to check out Gary’s blog here.
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Alright, so where to begin, where to end, how to recap it all so that people actually want to read about running 100 damn miles…
Hawaii. I’d never been before. I simply can not wait to go back again! It goes without saying that the place is amazing, but couple that with an incredible racing experience and a wonderful group of individuals associated with the race on all sides, directing, volunteering, and racing, and before the event even began, I knew I’d be longing to return again soon.
Quick background with my 100 mile experience. This was my 3rd 100 miler. In my three attempts at the distance I have now won two races, set two course records, and had one colossal melt down in the sauna that was Western States. HURT was by far the best race I’ve EVER HAD! I feel like I’ve finally learned from most of my ‘rookie’ mistakes and put forth my best possible effort in Hawaii. From training, to tapering, to fueling, things were almost flawless with this one.
Written by By Katie DeRosa and published Jan 11th in the Victoria Times Colonist. Click here for original article.
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As Maurice Tarrant shattered the Canadian record in his 80-plus age group during Sunday’s Prairie Inn Pioneer 8K race, he proved that competitive running knows no age barrier.
The Victoria resident beat the previous record by a whopping eight minutes with a time of 38 minutes, 15 seconds.
“That’s one minute per kilometre,” said Bob Reid, director of the Vancouver Island Runners Association and president of the Royal Victoria Marathon. “On the track, if you shave a tenth of a second off a record you’ve done well. But by minutes, that’s incredible.”
Results from today’s first event of the 2010 Frontrunners Island Race Series are now posted on the Praire Inn Harriers website. Steve Osaduik was the first male in the 8K with a time of 23:35 and Natasha Wodak was the first female with a time of 27:51, coming in just three seconds in front of long time Island Race fixture Lucy Smith. The men’s race was equally as close with Richard Mosley and Scott Simpson finishing just behind Steve.
Congratulations to everyone who came out to enjoy the first race of the series. The next race is the Cobble Hill 10K which will take place on January 24. To register click here.
Race reports:
Registration for the Times Colonist 10K Run Clinics is now open. The clinics will begin January 16th and will be held weekly at various recreation centre across Victoria. Clinic locations, times and start dates are as follows (click on table to enlarge):
To find out more about the clinics and to register visit the TC 10K clinics page here.
Registration is also open for the event with early bird fees in effect until February 14th ($30 for individuals). To view all fees and to register click here.
(Victoria, BC – Monday, December 14, 2009). The 21st Annual TC10K has been chosen by BC Athletics to host the 2010 BC 10K Road Running Championships for junior, senior and masters runners, for both men and women. The TC10K will take place on Sunday, April 25, 2010.
“The TC10K has a proven record of attracting the best road runners in BC, and producing some of the quickest 10K times in Canada, for all age groups,” said Maurice Wilson, Technical Manager, Road and Cross Country Running at BC Athletics. “For twenty years the Victoria International Running Society, organizers of the TC10K, has staged a first class event, making it a natural partner to host the provincial championship. The Championship is open to all junior, senior and masters members of BC Athletics.”
The TC10K consistently attracts an elite field of runners – during the last five years Steve Osaduik, Ryan Hayden, Lucy Smith and Lisa Harvey have competed. In 2009 the men’s race was won by Willy Kimosop in 29:29, with Kathy Butler winning the women’s race in 34:01. The course records, however, still stand from the last decade – Simon Chenowya (1995) in 28:47, and Angela Chalmers (1994) in 33:03.
The BC Provincial Cyclocross Championships took place last weekend in North Vancouver at Mahon Park. It was cold, clear and dry but the course was muddy and slippery. Congratulations to everyone who competed!
Results can be found here.
An amazing photo slideshow from the race by John Irvine can be viewed here.
Dave Shishkoff has posted a great report from the race including pictures on his blog here.
(Photo courtesy of Dave Shishkoff)
Several race reports from the Thetis Lake Relay have appeared on the blogosphere:
UPDATE: Results are now posted here.
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The 13th Annual Thetis Lake 20Km Relay takes place tomorrow, Remembrance Day, at Victoria’s Thetis Lake Park.
This popular trail race can be run either as a member of a four person relay team, with each member running 5K, or solo, with competitors running the 5K loop around the lake 4 times.
For more information visit the Prairie Inn Harriers’ website. Stay tuned also for results and race reports which will be posted here in the days following the event.
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Results from last weekend’s Shawnigan Lake 1/2 Marathon are now posted on the RaceDay website:
http://www.racedaytiming.ca/shawnigan2009.html
Also check out Jeff Hunt’s write-up from the race here.
Results are now posted for the BC Athletics Cross Country Championships race, held on Halloween at Vancouver’s Jericho Park.
Athlete Writeups
For nearly a decade, elite racers have come here to cheat Death in one of the world’s toughest adventure races. The 125 km course begins and ends on a 4200 foot plateau, passes over three mountain summits and includes 17,000 feet of elevation change and a major river crossing at the spectacular Hell’s Gate canyon at the confluence of the Smoky and Sulphur Rivers.
The 2009 North Face® Canadian Death Race was run from August 1st to 3rd and for the first time was won by a non-Canadian.
Mega-endurance athlete and bestselling author Dean Karnazes was there (finished second!) and has a great write up of his experiences…
Uncle. Enough already. The Canadian Death Race definitely lived up to its name. Absolutely murderous. Completely awesome!
I’ve long wanted to do the Canadian Death Race, but it always falls less than two weeks after the Badwater Ultramarathon, and I’ve been concerned that I wouldn’t have ample time to recover. This year I came to the realization that my schedule isn’t going to get any less busy, so I might as well attempt both.
Going into the Death Race, I had three goals in mind. In priority, they were…
The following race report from Gary Robbins recounts his experience racing in the legendary Western States Endurance Run, which is 100 miles of off-road torture through California’s backcountry. Gary is one of Canada’s premier endurance runners and gives an entertaining account of his adventure.
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Here it is, finally, my 2009 Tour De France race report…err, umm, oh yeah, Western States race report…has it really been almost two weeks already!
The Drive Down took us almost two full days, including one stop in ummm, I can’t even remember where we spent the first night? Somewhere south of Portland. We smuggled Melcher into the hotel room to save on the additional $3 charge for a third person, which would of course be added to the post race beer fund!
Continue reading on Gary’s Blog…
VeloNews.com – Seamus McGrath and Chris Sheppard left no doubt as to who owned the strongest set of legs at the 2009 BC Bike Race, winning the final day into Whistler to clinch the race’s overall prize. The two Canadians attacked the field on the day’s opening fire road climb and never looked back, finishing clear of the second-place Monavie-Cannondale squad of Matt Shriver and Ben Sonntag to take their fourth stage of the 2009 race.
“We wanted to do it up in style,” McGrath told VeloNews. “Me and (Sheppard) are the grizzly old veterans at this race. We wanted to put it to the young guys.”
Elite Victoria runner and Trainharder blogger Marilyn Arsenault has schooled the Scottmen on their own turf, winning the 10k road race championships in Balloch, Scotland with a time of 35:39.
Following is the first part of her race writeup:
As usual, Juice and I had a restless pre-race night. It was more to do with a warm room than anything. The windows only opened a crack and the temperature outside was not exactly cool anyway. Regardless, I felt fine because the sleep I had the night before was stellar. Breakfast was included with our room and was delivered to our door. I brought my Bodum so we had coffee, croissant and cereal. My belly wasn’t feeling all that great…travel seems to screw around with my plumbing. We walked over to the race start and grabbed our timing chips. We were so close we were able to go back to our room, change into our gear, attend to last minute bathroom needs and get to the race start with no probs.
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