(Men's winner Dylan Wykes)
Here are a few athlete race reports from the “First Half” Half Marathon held last weekend in Vancouver. If you know of any others please let us know!
Lost in Transition – PB doesn’t stand for Peanut Butter – When I finished Ironman Canada last year, my coach gave me a very cute [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Several race reports from the Thetis Lake Relay have appeared on the blogosphere:
NTC – Last Wednesday NTC rocked the 4x5k Thetis Lake relays!
Myke LaBelle – Kamal, myself, tyler and new found Lief put together a team for the thetis lake relay today…
Chris Callendar – It was awesome to get out racing again!
Shane Ruljancich – I [...]
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.
Juvenile, Junior, Open & Masters
Junior Development
Junior Development Team
Athlete Writeups
The Running Diva – BC XC Championships! 20:32 (56:52) – We were lucky again this year with the weather for BCs…
Nick Best – BC X – If RVM was [...]
The 30 kilometer trail race around Chiliwack’s Cultus Lake drew a small but determined crowd last weekend, despite the torrential rain. Results are posted here, as well as photos here.
We’ve found three write-ups so far: Nicola Gildersleeve (who was first female and 4th overall), Darin Bentley (who was first male, 1st overall), and Heather Vestergaard [...]
A collection of write-ups gathered from around the world-wide-web. Any more? Let us know…
Woman on the Run – Race report: Excitement+pain=endorphins – “Endorphins” – (definition) – Endogenous opioid polypeptide compounds produced by the pituary gland during strenuous exercise, excitment, pain and orgasm.” I won’t say today’s race was better than sex – but oooh baby, [...]
Last month a number of BC runners took part in the TransRockies Run, a 113 mile, 6 day stage race through the Colorado Rockies. a It has taken a little time to compile these reports but here are the ones we’re aware of:
Adam Campbell (3rd along with partner Aaron Heidt in the Open Men category):
Quickie [...]
Following is a small sample of other great race reports from a variety of recent events…. all experienced and written by local athletes. Enjoy!
Jeff Hunt – 56K Great Lake Ultramarathon – Leading up to this run, I was a little uncertain of what exactly would transpire on race day…
Cheak Challenge – This weekend was a [...]
Loreen Pindera – Conquering the Ironman: Never so tired, never felt so good – “Loreen Pindera, you are an Ironman.” As I was struggling to find it in me to make it up one more hill in the back half of the 42.2-kilometre marathon, I imagined that to be the sweetest line in the world…
Triathlete [...]
Victoria runners Jeff Hunt and Bob have recently become the first people to run all four major coastal trails on Vancouver Island – the North Coast Trail, the West Coast Trail, the Juan de Fuca Trail and the Nootka Trail.
The pair completed their quest with the Nootka Trail, completing the 40km distance along the west [...]
Lifesport Westcoast Vancouver Sprint Triathlon
Heather Hollman – The First Half Ironman Experience – Well, here I am, sitting on my couch and sipping on my hot almond milk, recovering from one of the most intense weekends of my life…
Runninggunner – Lifesport Westcoast Vancouver Sprint Triathlon – Sunday was my first race of the season and [...]
Squamish Triathlon (Olympic distance triathlon held on July 5th in Squamish)
FCH Life & Triathlon – SQUAMISH TRIATHLON Race Report – Olympic Distance – 05.07.09
Tri’n Fool – Squamish Tri (Relay)
Whistler Running – Squamish Tri 2009
Triathlon of Compassion (Sprint Triathlon held on July 5th in Esquimalt)
Mj’s Tri Blog – Tri of Compassion – Race Report
Road to Worlds [...]
The BC Bike Race is over with participants finishing the 7th and last stage in Whistler this morning. Results are posted here.
So far two participants have posted regular updates from the race. Kim Steed on his blog here, and Selene Yeager on her blog here. If you are at all interested in the race and [...]
Following up from last weekend’s Hy-Vee ITU Triathlon Elite Cup, here are links to write-ups from Canada’s athletes which have been published so far:
Simon Whitfield (winner of the men’s race) – and then that happened – well I’m home. and seeing Pippa launch herself at me for a hug when I arrived with “daddy daddy” [...]
Writeups (more to be added as we become aware of them):
Madly Running Around – Scotiahalf – This is going to be short, but not because of anger or frustration, but just that time is seeping away from me…
Running Gay - Goal Accomplished! I ran the Scotia Bank Half Marathon today and had a wonderful result. I was [...]
The Kusam Klimb trail running race took place this past weekend at Sayward, located on the north end of Vancouver Island. The Kusam Klimb is an epic endurance event and includes over 1500 meters of elevation gain over very challenging terrain. This year saw Shane Ruljancich, men’s winner from the past two years, head up [...]
The Great Walk was this past weekend and two Victoria ultra runners, Jeff Hunt and Myke LaBelle, have written great reviews of the event on thier blogs: The Adventure Runs of Jeff Hunt & Myke LaBelle – It doesn’t get any better than this. The Great Walk is a 63.5 kilometer point to point foot race between [...]
Finally a writeup from someone who rode the marathon XC! Kim Steed has just wrote about the event on his blog, the first part is included below:
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Finally, a bike race on the North Shore for the first time in years!!! With all the amazing trails we have, it took James Wilson’s passion and organizing skills [...]
