Unofficial results from this past weekend’s Dirty Duo are now posted. Race organizers are asking participants to send am email to info@dirtyduo.com if your time is missing or is out of order according to your watch.

• Results by Gender – Excel
• Results by Gender – PDF

The first race reports are now being posted by participants. More will be added as they become available..

• Katie Drechsel (Female relay category)
• Rob Mackay (50k ultra category)
• Nicola Gildersleeve (25k trail run category)
• Heather Vestergaard (50k ultra category)
• Darin Bentley (25k trail run category)

The lottery for this year’s Knee Knacker trail ultra was held yesterday at North Shore Athletics and out of the original 375 applications 262 were selected (and 113 were not) to participate as runners in the 2010 North Shore race.

• Here’s a list of the lucky ones
• And here’s a list of the unlucky ones

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.

Results from today’s Lifemark Health Esquimalt 5k run and walk are now posted on RaceDay.

• 5k Run Results
• 5k Walk Results

Here’s a good report from the event by BC Athletics.

Results from this morning’s Bazan Bay 5k, the 5th race in the Frontrunners Island Race Series, are now posted here.

Reports:

• BC Athletics has a nice race report here
• A race report from Erin (West Coast Runner)
• Some photos courtesy of Kamal Rae

Results from the World Snowshoe Invitational are posted here. Reports to follow shortly.

Results from last weekend’s Fort Langley Historic Half Marathon, 10k & 5K are now posted here. We will add race reports to this posting as they become available.

Update: Alison has posted a report from the race on her blog Tri’n Fool, and here’s another one by Jeff Symonds.

Kenyans Nixon Kiprotich and Willy Langat, currently training in Victoria, came in 1st and 2nd at the Hatley Castle 8k in Victoria. Eric Findlay of Victoria finished in third place.

On the women’s side Victoria’s Melanie McQuaid continued her dominance of the 2010 Frontrunners Island Race Series, winning her second race with a time of 30:54. Care Wakely and Karen Laberee rounded out the top three.

Close to 500 runners took part in the event under sunny skies and warm temperatures.

Full results here.

Results from today’s Cedar 12K are now posted here. Stay tuned for race reports…

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:

• Matt Hart – Orcas Island 50km Race Report 2010 – Flying as Close to the Sun as Possible
• Shane Ruljancich – Orcas Island 25K
• Tom Craik – The Meta Cognitive Runner
• The Lazy Trail Runner – Orcas Island 50 or so K ….. take two
• Ellie Greenwood – Orca’s Island 50km Race Report
• Tom Craik – Orcas Island

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…

The first Yeti of 2010 happened this past weekend at Vancouver Island’s Mt. Washington. It looks like it was a great time!

Check out the results, now posted on RaceDay: 5K Results, 10K Results. Photos from the event can been seen on Dave Silver’s website here. Several reports from the event has been written. One by Lina Augaitis here, and another by Nick Best here.

The next Yeti race is taking place this February at Mt.Seymour. It is an invitational, with elite athletes from around the world having been invited. Check back here for more information on the event soon.

Results from this morning’s race in Cobble Hill are now available on the Prairie Inn Harriers website here.

Participant race reports will also be added here within the next few days, for now here’s the first one:

• Triing in Victoria – It was hard!!! Haha. It was actually pretty funny, on the way up we were discussing the course, and were saying we remembered it as a flat course. We were so wrong!!!
• Jeff Hunt – I had no idea what to expect this race day. The past two weeks have been intense for me…

Results from this morning’s Steveston Ice-Breaker 8k are now posted here. Race reports will be added as they become available.

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.”

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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.

Full results here.

Race reports:

• Shane Ruljancich – Pioneer is the very popular first race of the Island Race Series. I’m quite surprised at the level of competition that shows up for this local race.
• Triing in Victoria - Prairie Inn 8k Race – report SO I hit up the Prairie Inn 8km road race on Sunday for the first race of the year.
• Kirsten Sweetland – Yesterday we raced the Pioneer 8k…my first running race in years!
• Kyle Jones – 8k Results & Pictures – Here’s a link to the results from the 8k and a few pictures from the race (taken by Tony Austin)
• Steve Osaduik – WE MAY AHVE BIT OFF MORE THAN WE COULD CHEW! But that was the point; Richard and I raced the Pioneer 8km in Saanich this Sunday and took it out quick…
• Derek – The Sparse Race Report (Pioneer 8km) – In lieu of an actual race report, I decided to do something kinda fun. I will describe each km of the race in 5 words. 5 words ONLY…
• Donald Peterson – Pioneer weekend – This morning I was looking at running the Prairie Inn Pioneer 8K…
• Adam Campbell -1st Post: Squeezing out speed – I raced the 31st Prairie Inn Pioneer 8km this am. It was a perfect day for running, 8 degrees, no wind and a dry course. A nice respite from the wet and soggy runs that I have been doing… AND 2nd Post: 4.5 km in…
• Jeff Hunt – Pioneer 8k – It was surprising to me how excited and nervous I was for this race…
• Kamal Rae - Pioneer 8km – It sucked. Signed up day-of and just felt off, wanting to walk after a couple of km, and stop at 4k, but finished…

Results from yesterday’s Club Fat Ass 50K Run and Freeze Your Fat Ass Swim are now posted here. Congratulations to all to started 2010 with a bang!

Just over 150 runners took part in the third and toughest event of the Thetis Lake Series. Conditions were dry but cold with ice being the biggest obstacle to racers. It was especially tricky on the decents.

Results are now posted here:
http://www.racedaytiming.ca/stewart2009.html

…and photos here.

Race reports and photos will be added here as they become available.

…. are now posted  on the LGRR website here and photos are posted on Picasa here.

Race reports (more will be added as they become available):

• Shane Ruljancich – A big thanks to Bob Reid, who again organized a large group of Harriers to head over to the race at Jericho Beach. I’m going to keep this report somewhat short so you can read some background on the race from my report last year if you are interested.
• Tom Craik – The Cinnamon Bunner Shaw 10k – He’s back. The “not-so -Lazy Trail runner” has redeemed his title as a runner rather than a wine and tequila connoisseur.
• Nick Best – This race is somewhat less chaotic than BC X, and the 2×5km loop format is easier to manage…
• Kamal Rae – Saturday morning I headed over to Vancouver (for the Gunner Shaw 10k at Jericho Beach) with Tyler on the 7am ferry…