Last week saw Victoria’s Melanie McQuaid, already a three-time XTERRA world champion, win the first-ever ITU (International Triathlon Union) world championship in cross triathlon in Extremadura, Spain.
This amazing feat was accomplished despite a missing bike and questionable health in the week leading up to the race. Melanie ended up borrowing a bike which fit her less [...]
(Photo courtesy of Grant Mattice) Athlete race reports from the March 12 Dirty Duo in North Vancouver:
Steed Cycles – Dirty Duo 2011 :: Deja-vu! – This past Saturday March 12th was the 10th year of the Dirty Duo! I have done 9 in a row and loved them all. Well, I shouldn’t say that as [...]
3x XTERRA World Champion Melanie McQuaid from Vancouver Island won the XTERRA National Championships in Whistler last weekend and in her latest blog post recounts the event.
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Dear Canadian Triathletes: After a decade’s hiatus, the most challenging, spectacular and exhilarating triathlon event is back to rock your world and better than ever!
It has been a full [...]
The final results for the Squamish Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race are now posted here.
Three race reports have been posted thus far:
Gary Robbins – The Monday before the race was exactly seventeen days since I’d realized that I neededg some serious down time…
Sarah Seads – I just arrived home from another fantastic MOMAR race experience [...]
The following list will be updated throughout the day as new reports are posted…
Times Colonist 10K
2010 Results
A few Times Colonist article’s: “Hard” race won by international contenders and People turn out in record numbers for Times Colonist 10K
J. D. MacDonald’s (Running Gay) race report – I love racing! This weekend I made a voyage to [...]
The following comprehensive race report for the Ski2Sea Race held last Sunday, April 11 in Kelowna was put together by Dirk Handke, Trainharder’s official Interior reporter.
In this report, the biggest and most compehensive report that Dirk has EVER put together, Dirk was a SUPPORT DRIVER for one team start to finish.
The SKI2SEA is one of Kelowna’s and the [...]
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, [...]
The 2009 edition of the Rock and Ice Ultra is over and Phil and Jen have both posted final reports on their blogs:
Life Behind the Scences – Battered and Bruised - Wow, what a race! It’s 0C today in Yellowknife – abnormally warm for this time of the year…but a great day to enjoy the Caribou Festival [...]
Here are the latest reports from two athletes competing in the Rock and Ice Ultra in the North West Territories:
Jen Segger-Gigg – Last Night, 1 day to go – Here I am, at Trout Lake Lodge, the last stage camp of the race! YEAH!!! I gotta say, I am suffering like crazy. My achilles is [...]
The Rock and Ice Ultra (March 21-26) consists of a number of different events including the Cold Foot Classic, a 44.5km continuous foot/snowshoe/xc ski race, the K-Rock Ultra, a 135km foot/snowshoe/xc ski race, and finally the grand daddy of them all, the Diamond Ultra, a 225km foot and snowshoe or XC ski race. The Diamond Ultra is [...]
…”there was a flat tire at about 11pm and then some sort of freezing outdoor crazy chilean lamb bar-b-q (for a veggy girl a little frightening but an experience nevertheless)…”
North Vancouver adventure athlete Lina Augaitis has just completed an adventure race in Chile called the Wenger Patagonia Expedition Race. The 10 day expedition style event [...]
Dirty Duo Trail Run/Mountain Bike Race, March 7, North Vancouver
Gary Robbins – Gettin Dirty At The Duo (An Epic Race Experience) – Dirty Duo 2009 however will forever go down as one of my personal breakout races! I have NEVER been pushed like I was at this past weekends race…
Steed Cycles – Dirty Duo 2009 [...]
This past Saturday saw the first snowshoe race of the season on the slopes of Vancouver Island’s Mt. Washington. A total of 140 racers toed the line under beautiful, sunny conditions. Shawnigan Lake’s Jason Terauchi-Loutitt was the first male across the line, while Syl Corbett was the first female. Full results can be viewed [...]
BC adventure racer Lina Augatis, who has recently completed the IGWA adventure race in the Guadeloupe Islands, has now posted a race report from the 6 day event. Following is a short preview from her report, to read it in its entirety please visit her blog .
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"IGWA a 6 day stage ecologically focused adventure race [...]
Results from this past weekend’s Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race in Cumberland are now posted – click here . Congratulations to Todd and Gary who came in first overall on by many accounts was a tough course.
NEW! Shane Ruljancich – Cumberland MOMAR Race Report – I partly credit the Mind Over Mountain adventure race [...]
Victoria Times Colonist 10k
Race winners and results – congratulations to Erik Kiauka (30:31) and Lisa Harvey (34:14) for their winning performances. Official race results are available [...]
Results are now posted for the Reach the Peak trail event held last Saturday in North Vancouver. The event entailed running from sea level in Deep Cover straight up (4500 feet elevation gain) 14km to the top of Mount Seymour. As there is still quite a bit of snow on Mount Seymour, participants had to [...]
