We haven’t posted athlete race reports in a while, partly because there haven’t been a lot of races recently or a lot of people writing about them. However the Steveston Ice-Breaker 8k took place last weekend and several athletes have written reports on their blogs (see below). For full results click here.
West Coast Runner [...]
A few photos and reports from Sunday’s Goodlife Victoria Marathon. We will continue to update this list however if you know of any photos or reports that are not listed here please let us know.
Photos:
Race day photos from Brightroom – http://brightroom.com/
Great Lakes Sports Publications – Video Gallery
Times Colonist photo gallery from GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon [...]
St.Louis Ultra-Runner Jason Eads’ race report from the Squamish Stormy 100:
“What are you, a meteorologist????” It began with rain…
It’s amazing what I’ll let friends talk me in to. That’s how I think of STORMY 100 miler many months after I signed up earlier this year. My friend, Ean “Action” Jackson, exudes the [...]
The Canadian Death Race was this past weekend and we wanted to bring attention to two excellent race reports by racers Ellie Greenwood and Phil Villeneuve. Both are elite athletes but only one managed to finish the 125km race . We highly recommend checking out both…
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Ellie Greenwood – A Date with Death. 125kms of Mountain [...]
By Gary Robbins
I wasn’t supposed to be on the starting line of Western States 2010, yet I knew months in advance that I’d somehow find myself there.
I am a stern believer in fate, destiny, and serendipitous moments, almost to a flaw really. I could tell you stories of how I ended in in New Zealand [...]
© Copyright – 2010 – Christopher Kelsall
Even though Diane Cummins’s 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 did she win but she also ran [...]
Written by Dirk “IKE” Handke special to Trainharder.com -
What is the SCORCHED SOLE 50M 50K 25K Ultra / Trail Run?
2010 was the 5th year of this event, being held every year at the MYRA-BELLEVUE Provincial Park, just above the Mission area of Kelowna, BC. Like every year, the event was organized by Shirlee [...]
Our official reporter from the Interior of the Province, Dirk Handke, has done it again with a race report from last weekend’s 2010 Fresh Air Experience Women’s 5k & 10k in Kelowna. Thanks again Dirk for another great report!
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What is the FRESH AIR EXPERIENCE – WOMEN’S 10K & 5K RUN / WALK ?
2010 was [...]
Victoria, BC – Cameron Levins of Black Creek, BC – who red-shirted for NCAA Division 1 Southern Utah University this year, returned to the island with a bang. He started off his track-racing season with an under-distance event (he is a 1500m/mile specialist) racing the 800m distance at The Q’s Victoria Track Series.
He won, [...]
Saturday, May 15, 2010 - From Squamish, BC to Whistler, BC, Canada
By Dirk Handke (a.k.a IKE) – Ultra Runner Extraordinaire AND now Trainharder.com’s official news reporter… Thanks again Dirk for all your hard work!
Editor’s Note: two additional reports have been recently posted:
Bruce Grant – Last weekend was the inaugural Tenderfoot Boogie 50-mile (and 50k/25k) race, a [...]
543 runners took to the streets of Oak Bay yesterday in the 2010 Oak Bay Kool Half Marathon and Asics Relay Ediken. Following are links to the results:
Kool/Oak Bay Half-Marathon Results 2010
Asics Ekiden Relay Results 2010
Race Reports:
Denise Helm’s race report titled: Oak Bay Race report – Mistakes, motivation and getting to the finish line – [...]
Media Release
Victoria (May 7, 2010) – Future University of Victoria athlete and Oak Bay High School grad Dylan Haight won the first race in the inaugural Q’s Victoria Track Series, Saturday, May 1st 2010 at the Jack Wallace Memorial Track at Oak Bay High School.
Haight was competing against fellow Vike, Clifford Childs as well as [...]
It’s a gorgeous day to run or walk. Congratulations to all of you participating in today’s Vancouver Sun Run.
Results:
Results are now posted in full on the Race Headquarter’s website here. In addition you can look up your result on the Sun Ran Race Tracker.
Media:
BC Athletic: Kenyan wins 2010 Vancouver Sun Run – Kenyan-born Kip Kangogo, who [...]
BC Athletics has posted a great writeup on last weekend’s Elk/Beaver Ultras, which doubled as both the Association of Canadian Ultramarathoners 2010 50K and 100K Championships.
The report can be read here and full results with photos are posted here.
Congratulations to everyone who dared to attempt this race. Hats off especially to Donald Peterson (a.k.a. Trainharder.com’s Jarhead), [...]
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 [...]
Following are three race reports from the race including one from Gary Robbins where he described his course record breaking effort…
Results can be viewed here.
Race Reports:
A report from the Race Director, George Forshaw…
Gary Robbins – Confidence Boost – Diez Vista 50k CR! – I’ve told this lead in before, but I love it cause it’s [...]
The second last race in the Frontrunners Island Race Series, the Merville 15K, took place this past Sunday in Campbell River. Just under 300 runners took part in the event, which was won by Tina Connelly on the women’s side and Willy Langat on the men’s.
Full results can be viewed here. Also check out Shane [...]
Overall winners AARON HEIDT and SHANNON THOMPSON
Trainharder.com’s leading (and soon-to-be-official) interior running reporter, Dirk Handke, reports on the Kelowna Campus 2 Campus Half Marathon which was hosted this past weekend at Okanagan College.
Dirk has again done an amazing job reporting from the race. This is a fun report to read and includes lots of great [...]
This past weekend saw the running of the 2010 Dave Reed Spring Classic in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, which also doubled as this year’s BC 5K Road Running Championship.
Results can be found here.
A few reports have been posted so far:
Rain City Runner – Conditions were race-perfect this morning, cool and grey, but dry, which may have [...]
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.
