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Welcome…
We are a BC Athletics affiliated running club located on the Sunshine Coast of BC. We welcome runners of all ages and abilities, from Port Mellon to Lund and everywhere in between. New members welcome: start enjoying the benefits of being part of our club!
Club News and Notices
See recent club results/reports/photos — Resolution Run
Organizing your own event? Equipment rental available.
April Fool's Run Clinic is underway! Jan 23 run is from Up the Creek B&B in Roberts Creek, 9:00am. We are still taking new registrations for the clinic for a couple more Saturdays. Full details at www.foolsrun.com/clinic.htm.
2010 club/BCA memberships are due now. Please let Teresa know you are renewing, then bring payment to the next Saturday run (Fools Run clinic Jan 9), or mail to the Nightingales (cheques payable to Sunshine Coast Athletics).
Injured? Or looking to increase your mileage without getting injured? Deep water running is a great option. The definitive book on Deep Water Exercise/Running is now available, by a friend of Teresa and Larry's. A competitive distance runner and coach for over 26 years, Mike Moon has perfected this training method and it is now explained in detail in his new book "Deep Water Exercise for High Performance Sport". It may be purchased online at www.deepwaterexercise.com.
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Recent Race Results & Event Reports
Resolution Run, Sechelt, January 1/10
We had 20 participants in this year's Resolution Run. The weather gods smiled on us and gave us a little bit of sunshine at the start, though it had been raining earlier in the morning. The rain started in again after about 30 minutes but no one really minded by then — and it was relatively warm at about 8-9°C. (click photo to enlarge)
Everyone was allowed to choose how many 2km laps to run or walk, and the display clock was set up so we could check our times each lap. Below are the distances and times reported by participants. Unfortunately a power outage at Starbuck's cancelled the hot chocolate and coffee donation we were expecting, but we brought some assorted cookies (and water).
Thanks to Pam and Larry Knowles for helping with course set up and watching the equipment while we ran, and to Dave Bromley for helping with course take-down.
Alphabetical by last name: Susan Blair Sechelt 6km 34:02 Neil Booth Langdale 4km 30:00 Sue Booth Langdale 6km 45:00 David Bromley Roberts Creek 6km 41:56 Loretta Burke Gibsons 6km 41:08 Peter Corbett Gibsons 6km 41:55 David Dick Gibsons 4km 26:17 Brian Fournier Sechelt 10km 51:02 Cory Kelly Gibsons 6km 50:51 Victoria Maxwell HMB 8km 51:05 Camille Neilson Gibsons 4km 45:00 Alex Nightingale HMB 2km 16:00 Larry Nightingale HMB 10km 51:02 Maria Nightingale HMB 2km 16:00 Teresa Nightingale HMB 6km 30:30 (+ 2km with Alex & Maria) Brenda Simpson Gibsons 6km 41:08 Madi Simpson Gibsons 4km 45:00 Laura Smail Gibsons 6km 47:01 Chuck Steemers Sechelt 10km 52:29 Edith Troup Sechelt 8km 64:00
Following the run, some club members headed over to Norma and Peter Bond's house for a hot tub and some great food provided by our hosts — thanks again Norma and Peter! This is becoming an annual SCA New Year's Day tradition. Some photos below and more (larger versions too) on our Facebook page.
Stewart Mountain 10 Mile XC, Victoria, December 12/09
Lorne's race report (this sounds like a race Roger would enjoy!):
Greg ran a great event. The first words out of his mouth upon finishing were, "I won't be doing that again next year. That hill was a pig!"
Although parts of the course are a hopelessly rocky scramble, the view at the top is stunning (nearly a full 360° viewpoint) and other sections are exceptionally well-groomed for running so you get to open it up for 200 or 300 metres along the soft flat segements. People's finish times over 16k are almost matched to their half-marathon times.
Lisa and I toodled off with the early wave of starters with the objective of just jogging together and making a day of it — very hard to do on that course as the terrain variation is so severe. I think that only a very unique personality would select this as a "goal event". It is more like a "tough-guy" competition. If a person considered themselves a mountain-racer or knee-knacker type runner, then they might really enjoy this course. Or if you just did it as a fast hike in conjunction with a weekend of shopping in Victoria, then it is an interesting experience.
The photo gallery was done by a guy sitting on a rock at the top. In the photo of Lisa, she has her arms raised happily after just being told that the ascent is over.
I pulled my sleeves back down & put my gloves back on in case I fell on the descent. Even though we were jogging, my pod has records of speeds around 22 kph on sections of the descent and I had the brakes on all of the way down the grades.
1:18:49 Greg Tait 5th M40-49 1:44:29 Lorne Morrow 10th M50-59 1:44:29 Lisa Morrow 7th F40-49
Gunner Shaw XC 10k, Vancouver, December 5/09
Cold but sunny conditions this year, and no giant puddle! Because of icy conditions, we were detoured completely away from the puddle, on a parallel path. To make up for the missing hazard, the organizers gave us more than twice as much distance on the soft beach sand... and we still had to go through the stinky stagnant creek at the far end of the loop — two steps in mid-calf-deep smelly water/sludge, with no big puddle later to clean off the shoes (some of us just brought them into the shower afterwards and washed them in there!). This year's turnout was even bigger than last year's record, with 190 finishers in the 10k and another 22 in the 5k. Plenty of food this time, with the pizza rationed out gradually. To all SCA members who missed it this year, it was a good one, hope you can make it in 2010!
39:00 Larry Nightingale 3rd M45-49 43:17 Teresa Nightingale 2nd F40-44 55:41 Helen Sabourin 1st F65-69
Photos by Linda Wong of LGRR:
