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Breaking News - 41st Running of the Nautical Days 4 Mile Foot Race Monday Aug.2nd at 9:00am

   The oldest continually held running race in British Columbia is fast approaching. The fun and fast Nautical Days 4 Mile Road Race is an integral part of the Nautical Days festivities and this year’s race again promises to delight all challengers.

   This year’s race is scheduled for Monday August 2nd, at 9 a.m. sharp, starting at Comox Town Hall, 1809 Beaufort Ave. Registration is the morning of race day only, from 8:00 to 8:45am in front of Comox Town Hall. Registration fee is only $10.

    The race follows the challenging, traditional 4-mile route around scenic Comox streets heading east from the Town Hall as far as Torrence Ave; up the hill to Noel; west on Noel to the firehall; turning right on Linshart Ave and up to Bolt Ave; then along Bolt to Anderton and left to Comox Ave ending at the finish chute in front of the Lorne Hotel on the corner of Comox and Port Augusta. There are great refreshments and awards held behind the Lorne after the race.

   The race is organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners and sponsored by Jim Smiley of Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty. The local business community and organizations generously donate each year with over $1,200 in prizes being given last year to runners and volunteers.

   The race has seen many great champions over the years but it’s the people who come back year after year that make this race so much fun. Race Director Karen Weller is thrilled to welcome this year’s entrants as well as a small army of volunteers who’ll cheer you on every step of the way. Come out and enjoy a great, grass-roots running event.

   If you would like to run, volunteer or would like more information about the race, visit www.cvrr.ca or contact Karen Weller by e-mail at Karen.weller@yahoo.ca . Check out the race route at http://www.run.com/showroute.asp?map=2468156 .

Breaking News - CVRR Needs Volunteers

Volunteers needed for Nautical Days 4 miler on Monday, August 2nd.

For more information: More Information

Breaking News - CV Cycle Club Needs Volunteers

Can you help out the CV Cycle Club this Sunday?  They have been so good to help us out at the 5th St. Mile. They could really use some volunteers at their club races.

Details:
Sunday July 18, 8:15am-10:45am. meet at Piercy/Burns Road in Dove Creek. Volunteers will be supplied with safety vest and signs, but need to dress appropriately (weather) and bring a cell phone.

If you can volunteer please email Doug beforehand so he can plan his volunteers.
Thanks
Doug Merrick
Race Director
Doug Merrick

Breaking News - 5th Street Mile 2010 Photos

This year's 5th St Mile photos now available on Photobucket.

Click below.

For more information: Click for Photo Album

Breaking News - Runners Burn Up 5th Street on Canada Day

   There’s something magical about getting dressed up in patriotic colours and running as fast as you can in front of thousands of onlookers cheering you on. The magic happened under cloudy skies just before the Canada Day parade as the Canada Day 5th Street Mile road race organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners took place. A sea of 175 red and white clad runners left from the intersection of 5th Street at Woods Ave and headed to the finish at Simms Park. The rain held off and the slick roads couldn’t slow down the runners as local speedster Cam Levins broke 4 minutes for the 1 mile course for the 2nd year running an astounding 3:59.82. Kathy Rung led the women home in 5:27.92.

   As 19 Wing’s Aurora and Buffalo flew past the finish line, the runners enjoyed post race treats and the winners received chocolate medals from Hot Chocolates. Draw prizes were donated by several local businesses and, for breaking 4 minutes, Levins receives running shoes from Extreme Runners.

   The next summer running event is the Nautical Days 4 Mile Road Race, the oldest continuously held race in BC, set to go on BC Day (Aug.2nd) in Comox. Go to www.cvrr.ca for more info.

Winners of the 2010 Canada Day 5th St Mile
Over 20 yrs
   M-  Cam Levins   3:59:82
   W-  Kathy Rung   5:27:92
16-19 yrs
   M- Evan Irvine   5:38
   W-Sadie Horner 6:11
11-15 yrs
  M- Adam Commandeur   4:41
  W- Chloe Gummer   6:02
10 and under
  M- 1st Alex Burlechailo 6:48    2nd Gabe Schovanek 6:58
  W- Gillian Scott 6:56

For more information: Full Results

Breaking News - Lead the Parade Down 5th Street on Canada Day!

   Ever wanted to be at the head of the Canada Day Parade on 5th Street in Courtenay? Now is your chance. The Comox Valley Road Runners are again hosting the Canada Day 1 Mile Road Race on July 1st. The race is run just before the popular Canada Day Parade and finishes in front of Lewis Park. The 5th Street Mile is a free, family participation event that starts at the intersection of 5th Street at Woods Ave. and runs (mostly downhill) to finish one mile later at Lewis Park. With crowds of people lining the parade route to take-in the Canada Day festivities, everyone feels like a champion runner as they head to the finish line.
   Last year, local running sensation Cameron Levins ran the one-mile distance in under 4 minutes and won a free pair of shoes from Extreme Runners of Courtenay for his efforts.
   The race registration is held from 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. on July 1st at the start at 5th Street and Woods. Race start is10:00 a.m. sharp. Refreshments follow at Lewis Park and remember that a run under 4 minutes wins a pair of running shoes from Extreme Runners. Come out and enjoy the Canada Day festivities with a fun run down 5th Street in Courtenay.

Breaking News - CLUB CLOTHING.

The CVRR Executive is pleased to offer you a chance to reorder CVRR clothing from Sugoi. Orders are due by July 20th.

Payment to be made by cash or cheque payable to Comox Valley Road Runners.
Order Forms are available at Tuesday Track, or Thursday Trail Runs from Robyn or Roz.

For more information contact Robyn (250-331-0254) or Roz (250-339-1070).

Women's/Men's Tech Tee: $35
Run Singlet (men’s):  $35
Ready Jacket:  $100

If you’re not sure of the sizing, you can check at the Sugoi website, or try on similar Sugoi items for sizing purposes at ExtremeRunners.

Women’s Tech Tee, $35.00             

        

 

 

Men's Tech Tee, $35.00                               Men's Tech Mesh Singlet, $35.00

 

 

 

 

Custom Ready Run Jacket, $100.00

 

 

 

For more information: Click for Order form

Breaking News - BC Seniors' Games

The 23rd annual BC Seniors Games will be jointly hosted by the communities of Comox Valley & Campbell River September 15 (Wednesday) through 18 (Saturday), 2010.  With the support of two regional districts - Comox Valley & Strathcona - and four municipalities- the City of Courtenay, the Town of Comox, the Village of Cumberland and the City of Campbell River - as well as hundreds of volunteers, we look forward to welcoming as many as 3,000 seniors to compete in twenty-eight different events.We look forward to sharing the “Spirit of the Island” with competitors, their families, Games Family members and spectators in September in the Comox Valley and Campbell River 2010 B.C. Seniors Games.
CVRR will be responsible for running the 10k Road Race and 10k Walk on Saturday morning, 15th. Volunteers are needed.  If you would like to be a part of this historic event, please register as a Sport - Athletics volunteer on the Games Website, indicating you would like to help out with the above races. Thank you very much.

For more information: Click to volunteer

Breaking News - 2010 SUMMER SOLSTICE BBQ AT TRACK

Its official!!! This year's 2nd most popular CVRR Social Event of the year is planned for Tuesday June 22nd, at ~6:30 P.M., following the track work out.

For all you newcomers, the Summer Solstice BBQ is held right at the Vanier Track & is open to members & their families. Its a great opportunity for CVRR members & those supportive, non-running significant others to socialize and celebrate the start of summer.

The generous gang at Valley West Autohaus supplies the commercial size BBQ & Sam Knowles is the expert at firing that baby up with a  blow torch!!!. 

Everyone is asked to bring a chair, or blanket, something to throw on the BBQ , a dish to share as well as a beverage. In keeping with the club's GREEN POLICY, everyone is  encouraged to bring their own plates, cutlery & serving utensils.

CVRR will supply the condiments.

Mark it on your calendar as this (Rain or Shine) event is always well attended. This year it will follow the Kusam Klimb & Relay for Life so the conversations are guaranteed to be most exciting!!!

 

Breaking News - “RUN4FUN” Relay Races Wrap-up Third Great Year of Junior Running

    Several young runners showed the fruits of their training as they “gutted-it-out” during relays and running games during the final session of “RUN4FUN”, held at the Vanier Track Monday night. This was the third season for the junior running development program organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners (CVRR) and held at various great running locations around the Comox Valley. This year’s program had 30 young athletes from 8 to 14 years of age taking part.

   The RUN4FUN program focuses on making running fun for all the kids and lets them know they can use running to explore the world and make fitness a part of their everyday lives. Youth ages 8 to 14 met at different running venues around the Comox Valley where they competed in a “Poker Run” at Seal Bay, ran the trails along Nymph Falls and the beaches of Goose Spit. They learned about sports injuries and nutrition from Dr. Wayne Crowe and met with Lene Curts, owner of Extreme Runners, to learn the importance of proper running equipment. At the finale, Nigel Ellsay, an up-and-coming triathlete and a recent winner of the CVRR Junior Development Grant, motivated the young runners with a peptalk before the relays got underway. After the relays, awards were handed out to those runners who logged more than a marathon (42km) of training mileage during the course.

   Co-coaches Robyn Dicesare and Eric Martinat loved working with the enthusiastic kids and watching them progress during the course. 

  Look for the “RUN4FUN” program again next spring after March break. The CVRR would like to thank the sponsors of RUN4FUN: Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty, Extreme Runners, SwagPromo.com, and Hot Chocolates of Courtenay. Congratulations to all the participants.

For more pictures click on Pictures at left.

Breaking News - RELAY FOR LIFE RAFFLE

Donations, of a minimum $5.00, are now being accepted for the ever popular CVRR RAFFLE for the Relay of Life.

This year's raffle is BIGGER & BETTER!!!!!!!

 Prizes include:

 * A gift certificate from EXTREME RUNNERS.

 *A kayak rental for 2 from C.V. Kayaks

 *CVRR membership & entry to the 1/2 Marathon or Learn toRun   Clinic

 *Entry to the Perseverance Trail Race

 *Runner's Goodie Bag donated by M.A. Rolfe

 All proceeds to be donated to the Relay for Life (CVRR Team).The draw  will take place during the Relay on Sat. June 19th.

Entries are to a max. of 5 per person. Enter at EXTREME RUNNERS.

GOOD LUCK & THANKS TO LENE & THE GANG AT EXTREME FOR ONCE AGAIN SUPPORTING THIS EVENT

 

 

Breaking News - Future Stars Receive Financial Boost From Local Club

   Teenage athletes Delaney Carr and Nigel Ellsay have been selected by the Comox Valley Road Runners club as the 2010 recipients of the CVRR Youth Training Grants. The grant program is the designed to assist up-and-coming local athletes, whose chosen sport has a running focus, with a financial boost that will assist them with purchasing athletic equipment or attending competitions. Both athletes attended a presentation ceremony held at the CVRR’s regular Tuesday night running workout at the Vanier Track.

       Delaney Carr, is a Comox resident and a 200m and 800m individual bronze medallist at the 2009 BC Junior Development Championships. In addition, she was a member of the gold medal winning 4x100m and medley relay zone teams at the same championships. Carr is now focused on this July’s BC Summer Games in Langley and the National Midget Championships to be held in Ottawa in August.

    Nigel Ellsay, a triathlete, is a Courtenay resident who trains with the Isfeld Track Team, the Comox Sharks Swim Club and Comox Cycling Club. He placed first in the 14-15 year age group at last summer’s Delta Triathlon, and won gold medals in the 3000m and 1500m at the 2010 Kamloops Indoor Championships in February.

    The CVRR wishes both of these rising stars the very best in their future endeavours.

Breaking News - Local Runners Place High in Eugene and Saanich Races

Local runners, fresh off the Vancouver Island Running Series, set the roads and trails on fire in Oregon and Victoria this weekend and brought home some impressive results and hardware in the process.

 
   At the 2010 Eugene Marathon, held Sunday May 2nd, cool running weather greeted thousands who toed the line in the ½ marathon (21.1km) and full marathon (42.2km).  In the marathon, Roslyn Smith of the Comox Valley Road Runners (CVRR) came 1st the Women’s 60-64 age division in 3:35:11 and bettered the next opponent in her division by over 35 minutes. In the Men’s 50-54 division, Wayne Crowe of the CVRR/Extreme Runners/Asics, won in an excellent time of 2:50:33. Honourable mention goes to Shannon Lebeuf who ran 3:38:36 in her first marathon. In all, eight CVRR runners ran in the races and all had excellent results. See below for results.

   Meanwhile, back in Canada, fifty athletes toed the line on a blustery, rainy field in Saanich to contest a variety of distances, consisting of multiple 10K loops of the lake in the Elk/Beaver Lake Ultra Marathons. In the 100k race Ellie Greenwood, a British citizen who has called Banff home for the last 8 years, produced the outstanding performance of the day to come home in a Women’s 100Km trail running world record of 7:36:40. The 50K race was also the 2010 Association of Canadian Ultramarathoners 50Km Championship. This was a close contest between two masters men. Victoria’s Darren Froese led from the start, but was unable to shake the Comox Valley Road Runner’s own Keith Wakelin (CVRR/Fitness Excellence). Entering the final lap, Darren held a slim one minute lead, which he extended to just over two minutes by the finish, earning the championship honours in 3:37:39. Wakelin came second in an amazing 3:39:55 for the 50km trail course. 
   For more local running info go to www.CVRR.ca .

Eugene ½ and Full Marathon Results: 
Marathon
Wayne Crowe M5054 60 1/99 2:50:33
Roslyn Smith F6064 591 1/14 3:35:11
Shannon Lebeuf F3539 664 25/181 3:38:36
Cheryl Eldridge F4044 745 30/164 3:43:25
½ Marathon
Chris Winkelaar M3539 223 24/196 1:37:03
Robyn Dicesare F4549 485 14/262 1:45:47
Karen Sibley F5054 1081 20/245 1:58:19
Tom Munro M6569 2378 12/32 2:22:23

RUN4FUN - Rain Doesn’t Dampen Spirits at Run4Fun Session Number 5

   An Environment Canada wind warning and wet conditions this past Monday weren’t enough to deter the junior Run4Fun running group from racing a challenging course at Seal Bay Park in a Poker Run as part of the Comox Valley Road Runners Run4Fun Junior Running Program. The Seal Bay run was session 5 of 8 in a program designed to enhance fitness, knowledge of nutrition and sports injuries, all the while running at the many beautiful running locations in the Comox Valley. The program has an enthusiastic following and has been supported by a generous donation from Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty. Swag Promo Inc. and Extreme Runners have also continued to sponsor the program as it grows in popularity. To date participants have run at Nymph Falls, 19 Wing Comox, Puntledge Park and the Vanier Track complex.

   In Seal Bay Park, Coach Robyn Dicesare warmed up the eager group and then lined them up to start a race similar to the annual Jingle Bell Run held in November each year. At the Jungle Bell Run, runners collect playing cards at several points along the route and the best playing card hand wins. But to make the event more challenging, the Run4Fun runners had to complete a fun physical task at each station in order to receive a playing card.  Even with the rain pouring down, Kayden Dion set a boys course record in 13:52 and Gillian Ellsay ran a course record for the girls in 15:15. All the runners completed the course and the best card hand for boys and girls received prizes. The winning card hands went to Miranda Lebeuf for the girls and Coulton Carter for the boys.  Hot Chocolates of Courtenay graciously supported this event with specially designed chocolate playing cards for all the junior runners as prizes for a race well run. All the runners had a great running in beautiful Seal Bay Park despite the wet weather.

   Next Monday’s session, the youth will meet at the Courtenay Rec Center to run the River Walk trail followed by a run at Goose Spit and then the wrap-up relays at the Vanier track on May 18th. Run4Fun participants and their families are invited to join hundreds of other Valley runners as they run the very popular 5th Street Mile Race held on Canada Day.
 
    For information on the program or other CVRR running events go to the Comox Valley Road Runners website at www.cvrr.ca.

Breaking News - Vancouver Island Spine Relay

This looks like an interesting event for our multi event members.....Have a look!

The details for the Vancouver Island Spine relay are now finalized. You can view the schedule at the following webpage:
http://www.vispine.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=53
 
You can register for the Relay at the following website:
https://www.zone4.ca/register.asp?id=1117
 
You can download a PDF presentation on the Vancouver Island Spine Trail and Relay, including maps and distances for all Sections, by clicking here:
http://members.shaw.ca/andrewpapesalmon/Vista Presentation Power Point Final.pdf
 
If you wish to learn more about the Relay, please attend a public presentation in Victoria at the Mountain Equipment Coop store on Wednesday, May 5 at 7pm. The store address is: 1450 Government Street.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions and I will get back to you by early next week.
 
Andrew Pape-Salmon
Vancouver Island Spine Relay Chair
andrewpapesalmon@shaw.ca

2010 Results - Local Runners Excel at Island Race Series Finale

    Perfect running weather greeted the competitors at last Sunday’s tough Sooke 10km Road Race. The hilly our and back course was the final of 8 Vancouver Island Road Race Series races held every 2nd weekend since January. The Comox Valley Road Runners were in a seesaw battle with another running club, Front Runners Westshore of Victora, and, despite stellar performances on the road, CVRR was outgunned and wound up in 3rd place overall amongst the over 80 Vancouver Island running clubs. Two CVRR runners, Wayne Crowe and Roslyn Smith, ate-up the course and set age-group records in the process. 

   The Men’s overall winner was Mark Nelson from Front Runners Westshore in a time of 33:25 and the Women’s overall champion was Melissa Ross of the Oceanside Running Club in 37:44. CVRR’s Wayne Crowe showed he was set for his upcoming marathon in Eugene, Oregon, by setting a course record in the Men’s 55-59 division and winning in a time of 37:15. Keith Wakelin also won his division, Men’s 50-54, in 37:42. Brad Crowe followed in 38:11 and Roger Plamondon grabbed 3rd place in the Men’s 45-49 group in 38:56.

  The CVRR women rand strong as Angela Plamondon won the Women’s 45-49 division in 41:34 and Shannon Lebeuf captured 2nd in the Women’s 40-44 category in 45:14.  Age-group champion, Roslyn Smith, went undefeated in the Island Series and set a course record of 46:59 and won the Women’s 60-64 division.

   In the club overall standings, The Prairie Inn Harriers of Victoria won the overall title followed by Front Runners Westshore 2nd, the Comox Valley Road Runners 3rd, the Westwood Running Club 4th and the Bastion Running Club in 5th.

   With the Vancouver Island Running Series done, valley runners are setting their sights on the Canada Day 1 Mile Road Race held July 1st down 5th Street in Courtenay and the Nautical Days 4 Miler held on BC Day Weekend in Comox. For information on these and other great running events go to www.CVRR.ca.

Breaking News - NORTH MEETS SOUTH PUB RUN & SOCIAL

On Saturday, May 1st, the running communities of the C.V. & C.R. will unite for the 1st ever NORTH MEETS SOUTH PUB RUN.

The plan is to meet at the Oyster River Trailhead at 4 P.M. & run/walk over to the SALMON POINT PUB for a quick beverage.

Then we'll run/walk back to the FISHERMAN'S PUB for dinner at ~ 6ish.

Please email Karen at karen.weller@yahoo.ca if interested so we can provide the pubs with some numbers.

Plan to come out & socialize with our neighbors from the North & please arrange for a sober ride home!

 

 

2010 Results - Valley Running Club moves into 2nd in Island Race Series

The Comox Valley Road Runners turned in strong performances at this past weekend’s Merville 15km Road Race and moved the club up from 5^th place to 2^nd overall amongst the 83 identified Vancouver Island running clubs in the Island Race Series. The popular running series is comprised of 8 races held around the Island and, with only one race to go, the club is hoping to maintain its place amidst strong competition from Victoria area clubs.

  

    At the Merville 15k, 273 runners were happy the poor weather held off and many excellent performances resulted. The race was won by Willie Langat of the Prairie Inn Harriers in 48:57. The first female overall was Tina Conelly of the Prairie Inn Harriers in 55:24. Twenty Comox Valley Road Runners took part and were led home by Terry Nielson in 56:39. Close on his heels was a tight race between father and son, Wayne Crowe and Brad Crowe, with dad edging out his hard charging son by 2 seconds in 56:48 and 56:50 respectively. Wayne Crowe was also 1^st in the men’s 55-59 division. Keith Wakelin came 1^st in the men’s 50-55 division in 58:13 with Roger Plamondon not far back picking up a 3^rd in that same category in 58:59.

 

    Amongst CVRR women, Angela Plamondon was first across the line winning the women’s 45-49 division in 1:03:48. Kathy Rung finished in 1:05:04 and placed 1^st in the female 35-39 division. Shannon Lebeuf came 3^rd in the women’s 40-44 category and Karen Sibley grabbed 3^rd in the 50-54 group. The amazing Roz Smith continued her winning ways with a 1^st place in the women’s 60-65 division in 1:08:51 and running legend Diane Palmason won 1^st in the women’s 70-74 category.

 

    The final race in the Vancouver Island Running Series takes place on April 18^th with the running of the Sooke 10km Road Race. To keep up on the local running scene, check out www.CVRR.ca for full results and upcoming club events.

Breaking News - Half Marathon Photos

A collection of half marathon photos available via Photbucket as an experiment.

For more information: Click for Pictures

2010 Results - 5k Results - Learn to Run Clinic

1 Daniel Scherr             21:17
2 Ceiliph Curtis            23:43
3 Sophie Pereira   24:25
4 Daniel Pereira   25:58
5 Michelle Irvine   26:30
6 Jennifer Ackroyd 26:48
7 Ann Carey 26:54
8 Taylor Eldridge 27:24
9 Dawn Spring 28:57
10 Chris Murphy 28:57
11 Joy Chan 29:40
12 Haley Richardson 29:41
13 Peggy Nelson 29:42
14 Sharon Hysert 29:44
15 Terry Clark 30:07
16 Kirsten Edwards 30:08
17 Michele Williams 30:08
18 Carrie Bisson 30:35
19 Bob Richardson 30:43
20 Marjork Miller 30:58
21 May Reimer 31:09
22 Audry Harms 31:09
23 Bill Atkinson 44:29 Walker
24 Bob Vanderzwaag 31:33
25 Heidi Sherman 31:42
26 Angie Campbell 31:57
27 Miranda Lebeuf 32:47
28 Charlene Davidson 33:07
29 Kathrine Brotherston 33:07
30 Beth Hopkins 33:24
31 Carl Bitonti 33:29
32 Donna Senger 46:38 Walker
33 Sandra Josephson 33:45
34 Joelle Senger 47:01 Walker
35 Evelyn Gillespie 34:09
36 Maura wall 34:10
37 Danielle walls 34:11
38 Patti Curtis 34:26
39 Darlene Goodrick 34:50
40 Mechelle Garrett 34:51
41 Kim Finlayson 34:53
42 Coral Forbes 35:10
43 Tamera Servizi 35:22
44 Claudia Boyce 35:24
45 Shasha Handley 48:45 Walker
46 Rolande Pickett 48:47 Walker
47 Anne Bitonti 35:48
48 Chris Erwing 36:16
49 Tara Zaal 36:25
50 Kristie Schrader 36:26
51 Heather Corman 36:27
52 Zacharie Pereira 49:38 Walker
53 Shirley Desilva 49:38 Walker
54 Nancy Miller 36:57
55 Marina Aucoin 37:13
56 Nicole Burgess 37:14
57 Jo Anne Mcleod 37:31
58 Season Pizzey 37:35
59 Carolyn Clark 50:35 Walker
60 Tracey Payne 37:48
61 Ruby Hetervig 50:48 Walker
62 Beverly Gordon 50:48 Walker
62 Linda Munro 51:01 Walker
63 Pam Twin 51:05 Waker
64 Serena Atwood 51:34 Waker
65 Alice Clark 51:41 Walker
66 Gaya LaFlamme 51:41 Walker

2010 Results - Record Numbers at 2010 Race Weekend Events

 
  

 

 

 

Excellent running weather greeted a record number of runners and walkers taking part in the busiest running weekend of the year for the Comox Valley Road Runners. Two major events held over the weekend, the Learn to Run Clinic’s 5 Km Fun Run “wrap-up” celebration was held on Saturday morning and was followed by the Comox Valley ½ Marathon on Sunday morning. CVRR Club President Jim Smiley hailed the weekend as a great success.

   Saturday morning, over 65 runners anxiously warmed up and then set off from the Filberg Centre on the 5 km out and back course. The runners were participants in a 10 week Learn to Run Clinic that focused on fitness through running and had several guest speakers teaching about motivation, nutrition, inspiration and even featured a fashion show. Co-directors Steven Royer and Leslie Dargie were thrilled to have 93 registered in the clinic and that over 65 toed the start line on 5 km Run day we an excellent final result. All clinic runners were presented a certificate of achievement from the CVRR and enjoyed a pot-luck lunch to top it off at the Courtenay Legion. The runners all walked away with smiles after the achievement of their goal: to run 5 km.

   Sunday morning saw a record number of runners and walkers head out on the Comox Valley ½ Marathon course. Co-race directors Brad Crowe and God Delaval were overjoyed at the record crowd and thankful for the cool dry temperatures that made for perfect race conditions on this fast course. A small army of volunteers that included a strong contingent from the Comox Valley Search And Rescue, marshaled the course, manned the start/finish line and prepared the post-race lunch for well over 600 runners. As is tradition, just prior to the countdown to the start, CVRR president Jim Smiley and Race Director Brad Crowe presented donation cheques of $300.00 each to two local charities. This year, Ed Schum of the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition and Margaret Hind of the Comox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society accepted the donations on behalf of their organizations.

   The ½ Marathon runners were lead out by a pace car donated for the event by Riverside Nissan. In the men’s race, David Jackson of the Prairie Inn Harriers won in a fast time of 1:08.:25 and was followed by Todd Howard (Prairie Inn Harriers) in 1:10:51 and Craig Odermatt of Pacific Athletics in 1:11:22. The first local runner was Neil Holm in 6th place overall (and 2nd master) in 1:14:26. CVRR’s Brad Crowe turned in the club’s fastest time of the day finishing in 20th overall (and 3rd in Men’s 25-29) in 1:22:06. Hot on his heels was Terry Nielson in 21st in 1:22:44 and Frank Graham in 23rd (2nd in Men’s 50-54) in 1:23:01. Wayne Crowe continued to be tops in the Men’s 55-59 division in 1:23:58 and Tom Munro finished 3rd in the Men’s 65-69 division. An Age-group Canadian Record was set in the Men’s 80-99 division by Victoria runner Maurice Tarrant with an amazing time of 1:51:30 beating the old record by 7 minutes!

    Amongst the women, Care Wakley of Frontrunenrs Westshore won in 1:24:16 followed by Nancy Baxendale and Clare Morgan in 1:28:17 and 1:30:13 respectively. Angela Plamondon of the CVRR was 4th (and 2nd in the Women’s 45-49 group) in 1:31:17. Other top CVRR women were Roz Smith with a 1st in the Women’s 60-65 division, Shannon Lebeuf 2nd in the women’s 40-44 group and Kathy Rung with a 3rd in the women’s 35-39 division.

   Large public events require many volunteers to keep them safe and exciting and the CVRR would like to thank all the many volunteers who came out to ensure this weekend was a success. The continuing sponsorship by community business in the Comox Valley was also key making the CV ½ Marathon an event to remember. Full race results are available at www.cvrr.ca.

Breaking News - Comox Valley Half Marathon Results

Results for Sunday's race are now posted.

Click on Island Series at left.

Breaking News - DIRTY DARGIES!!!

Congratulations to Leslie & Crystal for completing the DIRTY DUO  ULTRA last week in North Van. You gals rock !!!

Breaking News - Comox Valley Half Marathon

Race Number Pickup and Late Registration

Saturday: Extreme Runners, 436 5th Ave Courtenay
            Noon - 5pm

Sunday (Race day): Florence Filberg Centre
                   9am - 10:30 am

Breaking News - This Weekend is Race Weekend in the Comox Valley for Hundreds

   

This Saturday and Sunday (March 20th and 21st) is a big weekend for runners here in the Comox Valley with two major running events taking place on the roads in Courtenay.

    First, on Saturday morning, the annual Learn to Run Clinic, organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners, wraps up 10 weeks of successful training with a “Grande Finale” 5km fun run. “There were 93 participants in this year’s Learn to Run Clinic who’ve worked hard and endured rain and shine to get to this point.” said a CVRR spokesperson. “They have received guidance and wisdom from a host of volunteers and speakers over the last 10 weeks and they are ready to put their bodies and minds to the test.” Runners will start and finish in front of the Florence Filberg Centre and be cheered on by many volunteers and family members along the way. The run gets underway at 9am at the Filberg Centre (Anderton Rd. entrance) and heads out Condensory Rd., then back to the Filberg Center. Come out and cheer on these dedicated runners who have put in so much effort to run in this finale. If family and friends would like to run the 5km, registration is $5.00 at the Courtenay Legion on Cliff Ave. at 9am Saturday moorning with the run starting at 9:15 for walkers and 9:30 for runners in front of the Filberg.

    Second is the biggest event on the CVRR’s race calendar, the Comox Valley ½ Marathon. The race is set to start on Sunday morning at 11am in front of the Florence Filberg Centre on Anderton Rd. in Courtenay. The Comox Valley ½ Marathon is part of the Vancouver Island Race Series and also part of the popular Timex Race Series. Race director Brad Crowe and a small army of community volunteers will be out to ensure the hundreds of runners have a great race. Over the years, the race has seen some incredible champions, including Olympian Jon Brown who ran one of the fastest times in Canada in 2005 of 1hr and 3 minutes for 21.1km. The woman’s record is held by Stephanie Andrews in 1hr 16 minutes run in 1998. The Comox Valley ½ Marathon, which regularly sees over 550 competitors, gives the CVRR an opportunity to support local charities through funds raised at the race. In 2010, the CVRR has chosen the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition and the Comox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society as the race charities.

   The ½ Marathon race route is an out-and-back course that begins on Anderton Rd. at 11am (walkers will begin at 10am) in front of the Filberg Centre and heads out Condensory, turns right on Piercy then left on Dove Creek Road. The racers will continue across Condensory Rd. again until they get to the halfway point at 10.5km. The racers will turn around and take the same route back to finish at the Filberg. Volunteers will traffic vests and signs be at key intersections directing traffic but drivers are asked to be patient, drive carefully and obey the directions of the volunteers.

   Raceday registration is available at the Filberg Center. For more information please go to the CVRR website at www.cvrr.ca. Come out and cheer on these amazing runners.

Breaking News - Post 1/2 Marathon Celebration

For the 1st time in CVRR history, all spots for the Post 1/2 Marathon Celebration at the Atlas have been scooped up & a waiting list has been initiated!

If there's any racer, volunteer or significant other who is still interersted in celebrating with fellow CVRR's following the race this Sunday, they need to email Mary Ann at rolfecounselling@telus.net ASAP!!!!.

A second table (unfortunately in a different section) will then be reserved. 

 

Breaking News - CVRR Half Runs this Sunday

The Comox Valley Half Marathon
Sunday, March 21st, 2010

11am start (10am for walkers)

at the Florence Filberg Centre

Registration forms are available at: Extreme Runners, or online at www.vira.bc.ca

Race Number Pickup and Registration

       Saturday: Extreme Runners, 436 5th Ave Courtenay                    Noon - 5pm

Sunday (Race day): Florence Filberg Centre
     9am - 10:30 am

On Sunday March 21, 2010 the Comox Valley Road Runners present the Comox Valley Half Marathon as part of the Frontrunners Island Race Series.  This event draws more than 500 hundred participants annually from around the island and lower mainland. Each year two charities are selected to receive donations from this event.

The charities selected for 2010 are the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition and the Comox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society.

2010 Results - Bazan Bay 5-k Report

Valley Runners have Bitter Sweet Race at Bazan Bay 5km

   
   Thirteen Comox Valley Road Runners made the trek to Sidney this past Sunday morning to compete in the fastest race of the Vancouver Island Running series: the Bazan Bay 5km. One of the few flat courses on the Island, this course commonly sees personal best performances among its participants. The race, with a total of 613 finishers, was won by Olympic Gold medalist Simon Whitfield in a blazing time of 14:36. The first woman, Lucy Smith (also an Olympian) won in 17:19. Frank Graham was the first Comox Valley Road Runner (CVRR) in 17:37 and was first in the men’s 50-54yr old category.Graham was followed by Darren Skuja in 17:49 (also 3rd in the Men’s 45-50 group) and then Brad Crowe in a personal best time of 17:52. Wayne Crowe finished 2nd in the Men’s 55-59 category with a time of 18:54 and Roger Plamondon finished 3rd in the Men’s 50-55 division in 17:57. The first CVRR woman was Kathy Rung finishing 3rd in the women’s 35-39 division in 20:00. Rung was followed by Robyn Dicesare in 22:24. In the more senior age groups, Tom Munro turned in a solid performance in the men’s 65-69 division placing 7th in 25:29 and Ray Owens also ran well to place 9th in the Men’s 70-74 group in 31:23.

   The event was marred by tragedy when a fellow runner from the Campbell River area collapsed near the 1 km mark in the race. The runner was known to many CVRR runners and was always a friendly face at races in the Comox Valley and around Vancouver Island. With great sadness the CVRR sends its heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of this member of the running community.

   The next race in the Vancouver Island Running Series is the Comox Valley ½ Marathon scheduled to start and finish at the Florence Filberg Center on Sunday March 21st at 11am. For information of local running check out www.cvrr.ca.

Breaking News - CVRR offering Youth Training Grants for Second Year

    The Comox Valley Road Runners (CVRR) are excited to announce annual selection is open for training grants to assist junior runners from the Comox Valley in achieving their goals. This year, the CVRR will be offering two $300 grants that will be directed to a qualified applicant under the age of 19 who is competing in running, cross country, triathlon or track running events at a regional, provincial, or national level. Applicants must be a member of a running club, association or school team and/or entrant in a regional, provincial or national competition including school athletic competitions. This is the second year the CVRR has offered a training grant and has increased the amount and number of grants since the inaugural grant was offered last year.
 
     CVRR is a non profit club established in 1980 with a mandate to promote running and healthy lifestyle in our community. It has been home to hundreds of runners over the years and continues to service the running community with events, training assistance, support and activities. The CVRR has also been consistent contributors to many local charitable and community associations through donation, participation and loan of services or gear. Major annual events include:  the Comox Valley Half Marathon each March, the 5k learn to run clinics each winter, the Fifth St. Mile starting off the July 1st parade, the Comox Nautical Days 4 Miler, and the annual Jingle bell Run in December to benefit the local food bank.
 
     It is with great pride that we began reaching out to youth interested in running with the start of the Run4Fun youth clinics in 2008. These programs have become very popular and the offering of youth training grants is a natural extension of that commitment by the club. More details about the grant and the qualifying criteria as well as an application form can be found at Extreme Runners on 5th St., by contacting club president Jim Smiley 250-338-2402 jsmiley@shaw.ca or by going to www.cvrr.ca. Applications for the 2010 grant must be submitted by March 30th, 2010.

For more information: Click here for Guidelines & Application form

Breaking News - Bazan Bay 5k Results Now Posted

Click Island Series at left and follow the links.

RUN4FUN - “RUN4FUN” Starting Its Third Terrific Year for Youth aged 8-14 years

     The Comox Valley Road Runners Junior Development Program “Run4Fun” is an initiative focusing on using running as a fun tool to guide youth towards a healthier lifestyle. For the last two years the program has been a great success and the CVRR works to make it better each year. The program is designed to promote physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. The focus is on running and fitness but also teaches about diet & nutrition, and injury prevention. The goal of “Run4Fun” is to involve Comox Valley youth in the sport of distance or cross-country running on an ongoing basis.

    The first session will be held starting at 5pm on Monday March 22^nd, 2010 at the Vanier Track on Vanier Rd., Courtenay, with subsequent sessions held at various trails and parks in the Comox Valley. The program finishes on Monday May 17^th with the “grande finale” being to participate/compete in the CVRR 5^th Street Mile held on Canada Day in downtown Courtenay. Cost for the program is $25.00 per participant, which includes membership to CVRR, a cool T-shirt and water bottle. The CVRR, Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty, Extreme Runners and Swag Promo Ltd sponsor this program.

 

  Drop into the Courtenay Lewis Center or Extreme Runners on 5^th Street in Courtenay to pick-up a program information pamphlet and register. For more information about the program contact Robyn Dicesare or Eric Martinat at 250-331-0254 or e-mail robyndicesare@gmail.com.

Biographies - My Running Career - Roslyn Smith

My running career started in the mid to late 1960’s when running was a way to get into shape for a sport ...in my case this was field hockey in both high school and university.  We hit the track and the field doing mostly sprints in preparation to picking up the field hockey stick.  Moving into the 1970’s orienteering and cross country skiing was just gaining some popularity as I began teaching in both NS and PEI.    Participaction was in full swing and people were really getting off the couch.
In 1975 I went north to Inuvik to teach grades 7-12 phys. ed.   Running regularly really started for me at this time – wow – now 35 years later.  I competed in x-c ski races and road races.   In 1981 I ran my first marathon in Whitehorse.  I really had no idea how to train.  I ran about 1 ½ to 2 hrs.  every other day.   I was not aware of any training plans.   I did this marathon in 3:51   I was 33 yrs. old then.  I did very few marathons from 1981 to 2003 concentrating on half marathons instead.  Interesting that almost 23 yrs. later I would get my PB at 3:30:51 at the RVM in 2004.   It seemed that I became more competitive as the years went by.
We moved to Comox in the fall of 2005 and at 56 yr. I was finally getting some real training and being able to do it year round in weather that is ideal.    I cross train with biking in the spring/summer and x-c skiing in the winter.
The RVM remains my favourite race along with the Island Series.  I was fortunate to set the record for 60-64 yr. for the Comox Valley Half in 2008 at 1:38:23 and the RVM in 3:33:18.
A running highlight was doing the Boston Marathon in 2009 in a time of 3:36:45 coming 6th overall and 2nd Canadian in the 60-64 yr age group. 
Upcoming marathon planned for is Eugene, Oregon in May 2.  It looks like we have a few folks from the Club keen on going down.
In 2009 I have been ranked #1–in Canada in the marathon and half marathon for women 60-69.

Biographies - Shannon Lebeuf

Discovery - The evolution of a runner

It was never a conscious decision- I didn’t suddenly wake up one morning and decide to be “a runner” It was really something that evolved out of necessity.
I was born in Ontario in 1970, the oldest of 5 children. We lived on a 50 foot sailboat, and spent many years traveling from port to port. As a child I was fairly proficient in most sports and was involved right up into my early teens. But then life gets in the way as it seems to do, and I became busy with my first job, followed by the next job, followed by marriage, followed by motherhood- you get the picture. Any physical activity I had done before was left by the road side and forgotten about. 
As the years rolled by I took up smoking. I got a car when I turned 16 and drove everywhere instead of walking. I gained a pound or two here, a pound or two there, it would just sneak on when you weren’t looking, and then all of a sudden, Bang! Here you are- this lean, fit, healthy person- in this not so lean, not so fit, definitely unhealthy body!! 
Over the years I began to really feel the weight, it was becoming difficult to walk at a brisk pace, and the thought of doing anything physical had me running (figuratively speaking) for the hills! I felt crappy most days and I was tired all the time. And God forbid I had to take my daughter Mandy to the pool and wear a bathing suit!!! I remember walking by a reflective storefront window one day and stopping dead in my tracks - the person I saw staring back at me WASN’T ME, how could I be this heavy woman that looked exactly like my mother??
In 2003 I finally succeeded in quitting my pack a day smoking habit. That was good for another 20 pound weight gain! I had gestational diabetes while I was pregnant and my doctor told me that that put me in a higher risk category. My blood pressure was high, cholesterol too- I was heading down a very dangerous road.
In 2004 I topped out at 198 pounds. I vowed that day that I would never see the scale hit 200, and that it was time to change things or I wouldn’t be around to see my little girl grow up. And what kind of example was I setting for her? I didn’t want her to grow up and end up like me.
So for years I would try various diet plans ( believe me- I tried them ALL) and would “diet” from time to time and lose a little here, lose a little there, but they were too restrictive and I would ultimately gain it all back. I have a bit of an “all or nothing personality” as those who know me might agree... So it was either totally restrictive diet or no diet at all! Pretty hard to live with.  And it was a recipe for failure hard when you love food as much as I do!
I decided then to join a gym. I figured if I could burn up the calories I could eat more (which incidentally is still my philosophy today) I was horrified with all those mirrors- seeing myself from all those different angles was definitely a motivator!! The first time I stepped on a treadmill I could barely walk for 20 minutes. I was exhausted! I went home and cried that day.
But I went back the next day. And the next. And the one after that. Before long, I could pull off a shuffling “jog” for a few minutes.  I was feeling stronger with the weight training, and was losing weight!!  I remember the day I “ran” for 20 minutes without stopping. It was like I had climbed a mountain!
So in 2008 I did what all of you smart people made the wonderful decision to do- joined the Learn to Run clinic!! I started out in level 2, and then moved up to level 3. It was then that I met my mentor- Leslie Dargie- She tucked me under her wing and encouraged me to be who I wanted to be. She was an absolute wealth of information and I probably drove her crazy with questions! She helped me with my training- still does- I still get the “recovery” and “overtraining” speeches on a regular basis!  But without this amazing woman I would not be where I am today.
At the clinic I met so many like minded people, and being surrounded by so many positive, encouraging people was amazing!! I craved all that energy- I wanted what they had! I started running with Leslie’s Tuesday morning group from Extreme runners. Now I was hooked!  I began to think I could actually maybe, dare I say- run a race one day?? Maybe I could! With all that encouragement I felt like I could do anything! I began running longer, more often, faster every time! I registered for my first 5K race and finished in 28 minutes! 
Since then I have completed 3 half marathons, a few hilly 10K’s and a couple of road races. I’m running my first Marathon in May with plans for more after that. I train or crosstrain pretty much every day. I run in the middle of the night, I run in the rain, the snow, the sleet and the sun. I run in the forest and on the road. I run by myself, and I run with great friends and groups of strangers. And I love every second of it. I love when my knee hurts and my Achilles aches, because it reminds me where I am and where I came from and what I can do now. I even love hating it, if that makes any sense at all, because it means I am doing it.  And I especially love finishing a long run!
I look for physical things to do with my family, and try to encourage Mandy to pick the healthy road. It’s been a long struggle, but I’m finally where I want to be. When I look in the mirror these days I feel like the inside finally matches the outside.
Thanks for listening :-)

Biographies - Tom Munro

After I turned age 65, I decided to take the 2007 Fun Run Clinic for the heck of it. After years of sedentary life to my amazement I went from being unable to run 100 meters to being able to run 5k after 10 weeks training.
With support from family, friends and CVRR I have enjoyed running in local races and the Island Series Races. In 2008, I joined 30,000 runners in the Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa. Prior to the race my wife Linda and I were lucky enough to meet the current Men's Marathon World Record holder Haile Gebrselassie while visiting our daughter in Ethiopia.

Biographies - My Running Journey – Eric Martinat

  

I’m extremely fortunate to have had a running journey that has now spanned 33 years. Running has become such a part of who I am that I’d find it very difficult to live without.

   As a 13 year-old just entering high school, I was anxious to find social acceptance and, by chance, happened to meet the coach of the cross-country running team. He told me to come out to practice and give it a go. Our high school was a small country high school with an amazing running program. My first workout consisted of being driven out 4 miles into the country and told to run back to the school. Dressed only in blue jean shorts and “North Star” runners, I managed to make it back but couldn’t walk for a couple days! Grade 9 was difficult but I found acceptance with my new running friends. By grade 10, I was winning road and cross-country races in the Ottawa Valley and by my late teens/early 20’s, I’d worked my way up into national class competitions.

   Eventually career, girlfriend and life took priority and the dream of being an Olympian faded, but running has always been there. As a police officer, no criminal ever out ran me. Running has given me a baseline of strength and endurance that I’ve used to conquer new sports such as Adventure Racing. The mental toughness gleaned from years of long runs was ideally suited for this new demanding sport. I eventually entered several international class races such as Raid the North Extreme and Eco-Challenge.

   Running also allowed me to meet my wife, Robyn, who is also a runner. When we met, she beat me by 4 minutes in a ½ marathon and now she never lets me pass her without a fight! When we moved to Courtenay, we immediately joined the Comox Valley Road Runners and now have many wonderful friends who share our common love of sport. While I don’t set the roads on fire anymore (and I’m not 140lbs anymore either), I still love to race and always push myself as hard as I can. Robyn and I enjoy traveling to marathons around North America and will eventually head to Europe to run as well. I’ve actually lost count, but I’ve run somewhere over 40 marathons and several Ultra-marathons as well.

   Running is part of our lives and the Comox Valley is a beautiful place to enjoy it!

Biographies - My Life In Running - Brad Crowe

My first memory of running is somewhere in middle school. I went on a trip with my French Immersion class to Kamloops for the French Immersion Olympics. We signed up for our events at home before leaving for the trip. I chose the 100m sprint. A friend of mine signed up for the same event, and being young and excited we lined up really early. No warmup, no stretching, just ready to run. We look at each other; no other competitors have shown up yet. This should be a fun race! Quickly our dreams of glory are dashed as giants who already need to shave line up beside us at the startline. Funnily enough I don't even remember the race. The next thing I remember is lunch. We had heard you shouldn't eat before racing, so we held off lunch until after the race. But by then all that was left were a couple whole tomatoes, which we chomped on like apples.

When I was young running was certainly not natural for me. I was the asthmatic kid with the puffer. That's probably why I chose the 100m: it was a realistic goal for me. I feel incredibly lucky now that as I have gotten older my asthma has faded until it no longer seems to be an issue for me. From back then, I never could have imagined myself running as I do now.

I couldn't say when I really started running. There was the odd family jog when I was in highschool. In university I tried to get a nice jog in a couple times a week, if I happened to think of it. A few times coming home from university coincided with local races (5th street mile, and nautical days 4 miler) so my dad brought me along with him to the race. I felt nervous and out of place, watching with amusement as he seemed to know everyone.

It was Wayne who got me into running. He gave up golf and became a runner, so it became a family event to go and watch dad at races like the Victoria marathon. I don't know why, but I absolutely loved watching the races. The atmosphere was always so positive, and it really amazed me how runners would show such gratitude for some cheering and applause.

I moved to England for a year and at the same time decided that I would train for a half marathon. My goal was to run the Victoria Half Marathon when I came back. I started to build up my running but before long I had a knee injury, and had to stop doing pretty much anything physical for a while. Very frustrating. Later in the year my knee was feeling good so I decided to try again. This was in the summer and since I was in Europe I took advantage and travelled all over for about 6 weeks. During this time I ran about every second day. It was fantastic. I got to see so many things that I wouldn't have otherwise, like little markets, interesting side-streets, and parks. This is still one of the highlights of running for me. When I got back to Canada I was just about to enter the RVM Half when I injured my knee once again. I had felt like everything was on track and going well, so I was pretty crushed and didn't run much for about the next year.

Eventually I was looking for something different to do, and Wayne suggested coming out to the Thursday night trail run. I tried it and instantly loved it. It was a fun and social group, as well as being on some beautiful wooded trails. This was the seed that sparked my renewed interest in running. From Thursday trails I started slowly adding in more runs to my week, and decided that it was time to run my Half Marathon. Coincidentally my youngest brother had decided the same thing. Wayne gave both of us tips on how to train, and before we knew it Jeff and I were lined up at the start of the RVM Half. We both had great runs and great experiences, and I suddenly had a taste for racing. I started doing more races with the group from CVRR through the year, culminating with the Kusam Klimb (a mountain trail half-marathon) and my first marathon, the Royal Victoria Marathon in 2009. My real interest and passion is still being on the trails. This is what keeps me running. I'm looking forward to running my first trail ultra-marathon in the summer.

Stardom

Ha! How embarassing.

Training: I think the biggest thing for me has been to have a plan, but stay flexible. Having a plan helps to get me out the door and gives me a focus. But the reality is that sometimes things don't work out as planned and there's no point stressing about it. Take the plan and adjust and adapt. Another thing which has really helped me is people. Having people to run with helps to get me out the door when I'm just not feeling it. Having people to talk with can also make a run incredibly enjoyable. I always look forward to getting out for a long run with friends or family.

Part of the beauty of running, to me, is that there are endless milestones. And to me, stardom is when we push ourselves to a new level. I am always excited when I was able to run farther or for longer than I ever had before. Personal records are another really exciting milestone. Whoever it is, and no matter how fast or slow, it is always special to see someone run faster than they have ever run before.

However, every day is different and that's why I like to set three goals. This is a system that my dad explained to me. The first goal is a reasonable goal that you would like to achieve. The second is the ideal case goal where all the stars align and everything goes perfectly. The third goal is the minimum that you would still be satisfied with achieving. Depending on the circumstances, conditions, and how you are feeling you adjust for which of these goals you will shoot for.

The person who got me into running was definitely Dad. I remember seeing him out with his running gang and thinking that they were crazy. But at the same time I thought it was pretty cool.

Biographies - Helen Jackson

Helen Jackson

 Before I came to the Comox Valley in 1992, I didn’t really know that regular, ordinary people like me did things like run marathons—or even 10 K’s.  I had run a few miles training for the Tahsis Great Walk in 1991, but just to break up the long walking distance.  I had even jogged a couple of miles or more on a regular basis during my first pregnancy, because I was leading a group of women in aquatic exercises, up in Tahsis, and started adding in some light jogging for them.  When I got my first full time teaching position in 1993, I inherited the task of taking 47 people to Japan the following spring—32 of them grade eight and nine students!  Realizing that I’d be getting pretty well no sleep for ten days, I decided that I’d better get in shape just to survive.  That’s when I signed up for my first running clinic with the Comox Valley Road Runners.  I didn’t understand much about pacing back then, and I was also always wiped at the end of a school week, so I’d do the clinic run in the morning and then go home and go back to bed.  I couldn’t understand how people could be heading off on family outings after the clinic session.  I did get into reasonable shape, though, and did survive the Japan trip.  I kept up my running until summer time then somehow let it go. 
            The following January I returned to the clinic.  This time I joined the running club as well, and in the spring got on as a last-minute recruit for an Island Relay team.  I was hooked.  For fifteen years, recreational running has provided me with so much:  fitness, friends, all sorts of social activities, and of course the sheer joy of running.  I remember the particular fall day when I came out of my school and realized that I was thinking, “I get to run today.”   And it was a happy thought.  Running was no longer a chore; it was a delight.  At that time I seldom got in more than two runs a week as I struggled to cope with the demands of work and parenting.  But I stuck with it.  It was my one outlet.  For many years I enjoyed doing the Island Series of races.  They provided motivation and a lot of camaraderie.  Other highlights of the last fifteen years are Tuesday track, adventure runs, hill training, trails, breakfast runs, polar bear run-and-swims, and of course, more relays.  In 1999, I trained for my first marathon.  That summer I spent a month in Japan , but I was able to head out in the early morning hours to get my training runs in.  I also climbed Mt. Fuji , and guess what I saw when I was walking around the crater:  That’s right; a group of crazy runners who were racing up and down the 3776 meter mountain!  I guess some of their spirit rubbed off on me, because I ended up half running, half glissading down the mountainside, slip-sliding in the deep, crumbled volcanic rock with two young Japanese fellows whom I’d asked directions from.  We were laughing and having a great time as we sort of skied our way down, using our souvenir hiking sticks to maintain our balance.    
Life as a runner is not without its darker moments, however.  Like most runners, I’ve had my share of injuries, although they were generally not from running.  During recuperation times I was saved by being able to help out at races and walk around the track during Tuesday night track sessions.  The support from fellow runners was the best! 
In more recent years I have moved away from races but not from running.  I hike, backpack, bike, cross country ski, and snowshoe, and find that running provides me with a fitness base that pays off for all these other fantastic activities.  Last August I experienced the thrill of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania .  There wasn’t a moment on that trip that I didn’t fully appreciate my running background.  Somehow, running gives me much more than just fitness, though.  Whether I’m chugging along on the dark, rainy sidewalks of Comox, through beautiful Seal Bay Park trails, or down the exotic byways of some far-off place, while I run my muscles do their thing and my mind gets to take a free-wheeling, unimpeded vacation. 

Biographies - Diane Palmason

Diane’s Running Story

I will be 72 years old on Monday, March 15, 2010.  My first memory of running, and loving it, was a Sunday school race in Calgary in 1945.  That was 65 years ago.  I didn’t realize it at the time, but I now know that I was born to run.  That I did not run for all of those 65 years reflects the fact that I faced barriers and challenges.  That I can claim a total of 42 years as a runner reflects that I was able to overcome many of these barriers and challenges.
Early informal races across the park told me not only that it was fun to run, but also that I could run pretty fast, and keep going for a pretty long time.  However, there was no such thing as organized track and road racing for kids in those days, so running was just something to do while playing games like hide-and-seek and kick-the-can.   
My family moved to Montreal in 1950, and I started high school.  The highlight of my grade 8 year was “making” the Junior track team.  At the one track meet of our “season” I was invited to join the Mercury Athletic Club, an all-girl track team.  Joy!  We practiced twice a week at the track near my school, and ran in local, provincial and even national track meets from May to August each year.  In 1954 it was in international meet – the Commonwealth Games.  At 16 years, I was a member of the Canadian team, and ran the 220 yard dash.  
This was exciting, but frustrating too.  It was at that meet that I realized I didn’t have the true speed needed to excel at the elite level.  I was slow off the start and always trying to catch up.  Whenever I could keep going, usually racing with the boys, I felt better.  Running all the way around the track (440 yards) or even circling it twice (the Half) or four times (the Mile) was really exciting, especially in 1954, the year of the Four Minute Mile.  But girls and women weren’t allowed to run that far.  We were told that it was too hard for us.  Only boys and men had the strength and endurance to run all the way around the track, and even on down the road for 26 or so miles, as in a marathon.  
It was the ‘50s.  Women didn’t protest.  We did what was expected of us, me included.  In 1955 I moved on to Queen’s in Kingston , Ont.  There was no university track for girls at any distance in those days.  I decided that my running days were over.  I went from undergraduate to graduate school, married in 1960, and had three children in the next eight years.  The only running I did was to keep up with the kids.  
By 1968, I was living in the Toronto area.  Somehow the book “Aerobics” came to my attention.  I was 30 years old – could I still be fit?  Following the book’s program I was soon earning my 15 points a week by jogging around the neighbourhood at night, after the kids were in bed.  I was always alone, except for my standard poodle of that era, Muff. This didn’t bother me.  Running on the streets was not “done” at that time, but it felt so good that it became the best time of the day for me.  
Until I realized that I was pregnant again.  Women did NOT run, or do any other kind of exercise, while pregnant in ‘60s and ‘70s.  My second running career came to an end after little more than a year of earning my 15 aerobic points a week.  My fourth child was born in the fall of 1970.  Despite a busy household of four kids under the age of 8, increasing problems with back pain, and yet another move, I gave running another try – running career #3.  The Aerobics book told me that if I could run 4 laps of a track in 12 minutes I could consider myself fit.  I had gone back to my evening runs with Muff, and I decided to find out if they were doing any good.  At the local track I covered those four laps in under 8 minutes.  I was fit!  But I was also hurting.  My children were wonderful, but my marriage was a disaster, and my back gave me constant pain.  In an attempt to save the marriage we moved again – to the Ottawa area.  End of running career #3.  
By 1974, though my children were thriving, my marriage had gone from bad to worse, and so had my back.  I learned that my pain was due to a congenital structural problem that could only be resolved through surgery.  On January 2, 1975 I had a spinal fusion.  By June my surgeon declared the fusion to be solid.  He encouraged me to walk or swim, but warned that running was to be avoided.  He didn’t know that I had read a report of the woman who won the inaugural National Capital Marathon in May; and that I’d also heard about a masters track meet to be held in Toronto that summer.  Women could run 26.2 miles?  People in their 40s and older could run in track meets?  How exciting!  I wanted to do both.  
I couldn’t get to that big Masters track meet in Toronto .  But I did join an Ottawa track club and even ran a 1500 meters race ( Canada had gone metric by then): almost the mile race I had longed for as a teen.  I was 37.  The next spring I ran my first road race ever – that National Capital Marathon.  I had done all six weeks of my training alone.  In the aftermath of the marathon I was invited to join the National Capital Runners Association (NCRA).  This was a whole new world for me.  The NCRA runners encouraged and supported me, and gave me a sense of myself as more than just a wife and a mother.  I was a runner, and one with gifts I had only been dimly aware of.  I looked at life in a new way, and finally had the courage to end my marriage.  
Through all the pain and stress that followed, I found relief by just putting on my shoes and running out the door.  Lots of that running led to all kinds of successes for me, mostly in road races at first, and then back on the track by 1979 (see photo # X).   
There were other stresses, of course.  I went through a litany of running–related injuries, from a stress fracture to knee pain,  shin splints, Achilles problems and the dreaded plantar fascia.  In each case I was able to pinpoint a cause, rectify it, and carry on.  Sometimes I was stopped by accidents.  I was knocked down while running a crowded 10K race in NYC in 1983, suffering a heel fracture.  I hit the exercise and road bikes, and recovered to run most of my personal bests in 1984, at the age of 46.   
In 1988 I was stopped again, this time by a combination of stresses that led to a flu-like condition that brought my running to a halt.  It was a struggle just to get out of bed.  The silver lining here was that one of the running coaches in the area, who also happened to be responsible for coaching education with the Canadian Track and Field Association, recruited me to help him coach his teams of girls at Ottawa U and with the Ottawa Harriers.   He mentored me through my coaching certification.  Now running could be my vocation as well as my avocation.  
In 1990 I overcame the stresses that had grounded me by quitting my exciting but demanding job with Sport Canada, ending my second marriage, marrying my husband Ernie, and moving to Colorado .  I got back to running, both on the road and on the track.  Becoming part of the running community in the Denver area gave me new friends, and clients.  Coaching adult runners became almost full-time for me.  The rest of my small but so-satisfying income coming from the Women’s Running Camps that I created  with another woman runner and coach.  She is still one of my best friends, even though we ended the camps in 2001.  
By that time Ernie and I had moved to Blaine , WA to be closer to my aging mother in Sydney .  Once again, coaching and racing gave me my livelihood, and a great group of new running friends in the Greater Bellingham Running Club.  My own running was going well and, in 2003 at the age of 65, I had one of my most successful record-breaking seasons.  By 2005 this was just a memory, as I encountered strange, new health problems.  But I kept running, at first just to stay fit, and then, by 2008, to get back in competition in my new 70+ age category.  
In the interim, Ernie and I had moved to the Comox Valley , and into the fold of yet another great running community, led by the Comox Valley Road Runners (CVRR).
For reasons the medical community seemed unable to identify, I was having increasing difficulties running the longer distances on the road.  However, I could still meet some of my goals in the shorter distances on the track.  Back to the 200 meters – shades of the 220s I had run as a teen.  Then, in the fall of 2009, I had an answer to my mysterious health symptoms; and a pace maker to overcome my heart’s unfortunate tendency to “pause” for a few seconds every now and then, probably due to genetic factors.  
Now, in the winter of 2010, while I’ve recovered from the pacemaker surgery, I am dealing with aftereffects of cataract surgery – and the stresses of yet another move.  This, I’m determined, will be our last move, to a small rancher in Comox with a beautiful view of the Beauforts.   Through all this I walk or run every day – usually with my best companion, our standard poodle Willow .  Will I go back to racing?  I don’t know.  But whether I do or not, I know I will go on running.  Though I have run so many, many miles on my own since I got back to running in 1975, I have never felt alone as a runner.  Running groups in Ottawa , Denver , Bellingham , and now here in the Comox Valley have welcomed me and made me feel at home, and content with my identity as a runner.    
A concluding anecdote.  Sometime in the late ‘70s I attended a parent-teacher meeting for my younger son, who would have been about nine at the time.  She regarded me somewhat curiously, then informed that, in filling in a blank for “Mother’s Occupation” on a school form, he had written “Runner”.  He had that right.

Biographies - Frank Graham

Running Story – Frank Graham

What motivated me to to start running?  And more importantly, what keeps me running?  I ran my first four miler in Comox when I was 13. Why did I run that day?  That was 39 years ago, how the heck am I supposed to remember that far back? 
I ran very little between that race and my  first Marathon in 1980.  Sure I played lots of other sports to keep fit, but running wasn't something I did on a consistent basis.  I'd show up at races and I ran on what mileage I was getting by running with my dog on the beach and on the Fraser road loop when we felt like it.
What really kept me fit at this time was playing tackle football age 15 to  18. There couldn't have been a sport I was more unsuited for but there were no cross county teams at the time and all my friends played.
I was by far the smallest on the field and usually got the first sweep of the game at my defensive back position on the hot right corner. I went on to receive 2 trophies for Top Defensive back in my first 2 years, and Rookie of the Year in my third year.
Here I learned that if worked hard enough, was fast enough, and out-thought the big boys I could do almost anything in life regardless of my small size.
I ran my first marathon in 1980 to get in shape and impress the UVIC Phys. Ed. department so that I would get accepted into their Program (only 42 students were accepted).  I just squeaked in as a mature student ( I was 22).  Here, for the first time in my life I had to set goals, make a training plan, carry out the training plan through good times and bad, and believe in what I was doing when others lost faith. 
At this time I was coaching softball, kids 10 to 12.  This was my first experience transferring my skills as a runner to another sport.  Skills like setting goals, making a training plan, caring out a training plan through good times and bad  and believing you will achieve when others lose faith.
Yes, I had found a strategy that would get me through university, get a job and get pretty much anything that I put my mind to.  Skills learned on the run. At the end of 3 years coaching the kids, we won the championship cup and the parents bought me a coach of the year trophy even though there wasn't one provided by the league.  I have a bond with those kids and parents that will last a lifetime.
During my first 3 years at UVIC, I trained hard and tried out for the cross-country team. During that time, in Courtenay, I was winning races or at least finishing in the top 3. However, at UVIC each year I was finishing top ninth or tenth in qualifying races (they only took the top 8). 
At the time I was quite disappointed that I was just missing being selected for the team, but now I see things very differently.  Even though my all-time personal best of 16:50 5k, 35:20 10k and 1:15 half marathon wasn't fast enough to meet the short term goal of the day, what an incredible experience I had. 
Working out and racing with some of the best coaches and runners in Canada was a privilege  I fondly remember. Coach Ron Bowker still cheers me on at races and gives me racing tips.
Looking back at my scrapbook,  I see it just highlights all my ribbons, trophies and  newspaper writeups.  But that really isn't the story at all.  My involvement in sport has always been about relationships I've built with my fellow teammates and competitors.
I have no pictures of all  many training partners on so many wonderful  long training runs, or the after-run socials.  As I think back, these are the memories I cherish  the most.  The stories and jokes we'll exchange at track, doing hills, pool running  or on the long ride back from Victoria, these are the things that have always motivated me to run and always will..
I have to go now so that I can catch up on news with Mary on a run and show her this story afterwards  over coffee.

Breaking News - EAT/DRINK/DANCE

This Fri. March 5th, the 1st ever CVRR/SWIMFIT SOCIAL & FUN FUNDRAISER takes place at the Royston Hall starting at 6:30.

Tickets are available at the door for $20 (adult) & $10 (child) to cover the costs of the rental & DJ. This event is also open to friends & family.

Its a fundraiser supporting the new training/public facility by the Raven Lodge).Its a pot luck/BYOB event with a DJ providing the dance tunes following the feast!!!

CVRR & SWimFit teams will be created to compete in the BIATHALON SNOWSHOE BLAST. Please visit www.biathalonsnowshoeblast.org for more info. or call 338-2492.

Bring a little pocket change for some fun things throughout the evening.

Hope to see a good showing of CVRR members partying with our SWimFit friends.

FMI please contact Emily at 334-2398

 

 

Breaking News - POST 1/2 MARATHON CELEBRATION

22 Seats have been reserved for 6 P.M. at the Atlas Cafe  for the annual POST 1/2 MARATHON CELEBRATION on Sunday, March 21st.

This get together is open to racers, volunteers & significant others! It's a great opportunity for all to get together & swap stories about CVRR's most action packed & intense event of the year.

Please RSVP Mary Ann at rolfecounselling@telus.net to claim a seat. To date, ~ 7 spots have been reserved.

Breaking News - Hatley Caste 8k

Hatley Castle results now available.

Click Island Series at left.

Breaking News - 2010 YETI SNOWSHOE RACE

 CVRR Pictures - Thanks to Eric

Full Results

Breaking News - Cobble Hill 10k Results now posted

Click Island Series at left and follow the link.

2010 Results - Prairie Inn Pioneer 8-k Results

OA   Group            Name                 Time     Pace(Km Mile)
59   6/54   M4044  Steven Royer       29:32  3:42 5:56
77   16/37 M2529 Brad Crowe           30:38  3:50 6:10
86   10/20 M2024 Jeff Crowe             30:53  3:52 6:13
87   3/37   M5054 Frank Graham        30:54  3:52 6:13
126 2/50   F4549 Angela Plamondon   32:26 4:03 6:31
157 24/54 M4044 Chris Winkelar        33:21  4:10 6:43
229 15/37 M5054 Danny Keyes          35:37  4:27 7:10
246 1/14   F6064 Roslyn Smith          36:07 4:31 7:16
259 32/48 M4549 Mark Arsenault       36:21  4:33 7:19
325 16/24 F2529 Caroline McGaw       38:05  4:46 7:40
336 9/36   F4044 Karin Holm             38:13  4:47 7:41
355 11/36 F4044 Anna Diedricksen    38:56  4:52 7:50
386 8/36   F5054 Karen Weller          39:48  4:58 8:00
458 26/30 M3034 Julian White           42:16  5:17 8:30
534 12/18 M6569 Tom Munro           45:12  5:39 9:06

Breaking News - Crazy Goings On at Track

Yep. Check out the pics of 2 recent events at track!!!!!

Breaking News - BIKINI BLASTOFF 2009

On Tuesday, December 29th, CVRR will be blasting off 2009 in style at the Tuesday Track Workout.

Coach Kathy will lead a modified track workout; there will be music, prizes, and excitement in the air as participants bid farewell to the final workout of '09 in CVRR style.

Come prepared to run comfortably and to STRIP DOWN  to your bathing suit for the final 400 meters! Get creative, get crazy but please keep the outfits G rated as this is a family affair.

Expect to laugh, be mildly shocked but above all expect to have a great time with fellow CVRR's as they celebrate the final workout of the year!!

Breaking News - Xmas Party Thanks

A special thanks to all the CV Road Runner's who came out to the Xmas party & made it such a rocking success. So much energy & enthusiasm & crazy dance moves!!!!

The following require special recognition:

Rick & Betty Clough for decorating

Frankie for MCing the event

Sam & Brooke for clean up as well as the others who chipped in to help

Cloves for the awesome turkey buffet

DJ Sean for keeping us on the dance floor all nite

Extreme Runners for handlng the sale of the tickets

Robyn & Eric for earning the Volunteers of the Year Award

All the RoadRunner's & guests who helped make this one of the best Xmas parties in CVRR history!

See you all on Dec. 10th, 2010 at the next Xmas Party.

Forgive me if I've forgotten to mention anyone.. Pics of the event to be posted shortly!!

Thanks All,

Social Gal , Mary Ann 

 

Breaking News - CVRR in the Olympic Torch relay

CVRR's Gord DeLaval, and soon to be Valley Resident Angela Plamondon, both took part in the Olympic Torch Relay through the Comox Valley on Monday, November 2nd.

Click on <Pictures> to see them, and their supporters, in action!

Way to go guys!

Breaking News - CVRR at RVM 30

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CVRR MEMBERS WHO COMPETED
IN THE 2009 ROYAL VICTORIA MARATHON WEEKEND!
 
We were very well represented and some impressive
and exciting results were posted at all levels, whether it was
a competitive level runner racing the clock or someone accomplishing
a goal that might previously have seemed impossible.
 
EVERY ONE OF YOU DID US PROUD!
 
MARATHON:
 
Brad Crowe                        2:53:13            36th overall and 7th age group     an outstanding PB
Les Disher                         3:01:02            1st age group                          1st marathon - wow!
Wayne Crowe                    3:06:53            only a few months removed from major injuries in a bike crash
Mary Bridges                     3:23:26             6th age group
Gord Harris                       3:24:22              8th age group, PR!!  

Kathy Rung                       3:27:24             10th age group - way to go coach
Roz Smith                         3:33:18             1st age group  - continues to amaze
Janet Green                      3:45:55              3rd age group - marathon # 215 (not counting a bunch of ultras!) - unbelievable
Veronique Dion                  3:46:29
Heather Skuja                   3:52:35              training well for another ironman
Bill Wiggins                       3:58:57
Korky Richardson              4:10:29
Crystal Dargie                    4:13:47
Sandra Rowland                 4:16:52
Judy Morrison                    4:20:17
Sonja Leach                       4:21:16             6th age group
Leslie Dargie                      4:45:23
Wayne Boyce                    4:50:03
 
HALF MARATHON
 
Neil Holm                           1:11:55          12th overall and 1st master - definitely elite!
Frank Graham                     1:28:25          5th age group
John Ingram                        1:31:31          5th age group
Jamie Kantor                       1:31:46
Chris Winkelaar                   1:32:38
Gord Delaval                        1:32:49
Bob Lavoie                          1:39:02          6th age group
Andrea Prager                      1:39:17
Coco Elgood                        1:40:22
Zina Richmond                     1:43:32         8th age group
Karen Weller                        1:48:40         
Joanne Hawthorn                  1:52:01
Cathy Clark                          1:54:38
Kindle Parsons                     1:58:08
Debbie Paltzat                      2:25:29          what vertigo?
Holly Horodney                     3:04:37          went the distance for the 1st time ever!
 
8K
 
Anna Diedricksen                    41:30           coming back from injury
Cathy Bulger                           42:11          
Doug Warren                           43:17
Rick Clough                            48:27          7th age group - with a metal plate in his hip which was broken not so long ago
Betty Clough                           50:53          7th age group
Claudia Boyce                         57:43

Breaking News - Memorial 8k Results

here are the Memorial 8-k Run results.

Thaks to all volunteers, and all runners.

For more information: Click for Full Results

Breaking News - Track 'n Trail Kids' Fun Run Pictures

Track 'n Trail Pictures now posted.

Click on Pictures on the left. 

Breaking News - 2009 Gutbuster Mt Washington

For more information: Results

Breaking News - 2009 Nautical Days 4 miler

Hot Temperatures and Fast Times at the 40th Annual Nautical Days 4 Mile Road Race (Results at end - Click more info & scroll down)

     In what has become a tradition, blue skies and sunshine bathed 117 runners and joggers from as far away as Calgary as they competed in the 40th Annual Nautical Days 4 Mile Foot Race in Downtown Comox on BC Day, August 3rd. In what is also fast becoming a tradition Cameron Levins of Black Creek, led the way with another first place over a strong field. In the women’s division, Annie Gornall ran a fast time to win the women’s overall title. Many first time entrants came out to join the old guard and race the challenging Comox course that started at the Comox Town Hall and ended 4 miles later in front of the Lorne Hotel on Comox Ave. One of the day’s highlights, the Valley’s own Steve Royer completing his 30th consecutive running of this race, one he has won 11 times in the past. Comox Valley Road Runners President Jim Smiley presented Royer with a plaque commemorating this incredible feat. A small army of dedicated volunteers handled registration, worked the finish line, marshaled the roads, sprayed cooling water on the runners and made the event a total success. Support from local businesses added to the excitement when racers and volunteers received donated goods as awards and draw prizes. Many of the athletes are already looking forward to next year and are telling their friends about this great community race and the amazing Nautical Days festival Comox puts on.

     Overall male winner was Cameron Levins in 19:59 followed by Craig Ordermatt of Vistoria in a time of 20:41 and third place was picked up by Mark Cryderman from Campbell River in 20:45.
Annie Gornal of Comox was the top female athlete with a fast time of 26:04 followed not far behind by Grace Howard in 26:21 and third place was Kathy Rung in 27:11.
Male age group winners were: 13-19yrs: Adam Commandeur; 20-29yrs Cameron Levins; 30-39yrs Craig Ordermatt; 40-49yrs Terry Nielson; 50-59yrs Keith Wakelin; 60-69yrs Tom Howard; 70 plus Adam Simpson.
Female age group winners were 12 and under Megan Nutall; 13-19yrs Grace Howard; 20-29yrs Annie Gornall; 30-39yrs Kathy Rung; 40-49yrs; Dee Ogden; 50-59yrs Lynn Bromilow; 60-69yrs Roz Smith.  Full results will be posted at www.cvrr.ca.

The Comox Valley Road Runners thank all participants and volunteers for making this 40th Anniversary race a great success. Special thanks to the race sponsors:

Jim Smiley (Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty)  

Fitness Excellence            Blacks Cycle
Extreme Runners             The Medicine Shoppe  Bennino Gelato
Long Lands Golf Course   Blue Heron Books       The Avenue
Tim Horton’s Comox        MacDonalds Restaurants 

Quality Foods         Smitty’s Restaurant Comox   Toscano’s Restaurant             London Drugs
Oh Spa                  The Blackfin Pub                   Rolfe Consulting
Canadian Tire Courtenay                  Simon’s Cycle   
Mount Washington Resort               Thyme on the Ocean
The Old House Restaurant               The Westerly Best Western Hotel

For more information: Results

Breaking News - CVRR teams with CV Exhibition for Kids' Fun Run

CVRR moms, Mary Bridges & Cheryl Eldridge are teaming up with the Comox Valley Exhibition to organise a Kids' Trail Race on Saturday, 29th August, starting at 10:00 pm.

There are 3 categories, as follows:-

Bunny Runners (5 yrs & u8nder) - 400m approximately

6 to 12 Runners - 1.6 km trail

13 & up Runners - 2 km trail approximately.

All runners will receive a participant ribbon, with prizes being awarded to the first girl and boy in each category.

Pre-registration is on Race Day from 9:15 - 9:45, with the "bunnies" hitting the track at 10:00 am.

All runners get free entry, but parents will have to pay admission to the Exhibition.

For more information: Entry Form

Breaking News - Steve Royer Set to Run 30th Consecutive Nautical Days Race

Steve Royer Set to Run 30th Consecutive Nautical Days Race

For more information: Details

Breaking News - CVRR at the Canadian Masters' Track & Field Champs

The Canadian Masters' 2009 Track & Field Championships were held in Kamloops, BC on July 17-19.

A small contingent of CVRR runners made the trip to Kamloops & returned with some excellent results.

Womens' 70, 200m Dash - 1st, Diane Palmason, 33.70

Mens' 50, 200m Dash - 3rd, Lindsay Elms, 28.67 (winner, 24.74)

Womens' 70, 400m Dash - 1st, Diane Palmason, 77.14

(new Canadian record - old record 77.34, D. Palmason)

 

Mens' 50, 400m Dash - 2nd, Keith Wakelin, 64.01

3rd, Lindsay Elms, 64.78

(Winner, 58.93)

 

Mens' 50, 800m - 3rd, Keith Wakelin, 2:22.42 (winner 2:13.66)

 

Mens' 50, 4x400m relay - 1st, BC "A"

(Lindsay Elms, Keith Wakelin, Mel Callander, Paul Reimer),

4:16.45 (Previous record, CVRR, 4:24.06)

 

 

2008 Canadian Masters' Athlete of the Year - Diane Palmason

(Presented at the 2009 Banquet)

 

 

 

In spite of all that physical activity, the group still had time to party!!

 

 

 

Breaking News - CVRR in the Great White North Half Ironman Triathlon

I am a CVRR member even though I do live up in northern B.C.  Still, I do make it to the Island at least twice a year and enjoy running with your running group!
 
I recently took part in the 1/2 Ironman in Stoney Plain Alberta and thought you might be able to post it on your website in case any of your members had an interest in great triathlons to participate in.  The race is called "The Great White North 1/2 Ironman" and I believe this was the 18th running of the event.  It starts off with a 2 loop (1.9km) swim in a smaller lake with 750 other swimmers, then a 90km bike through the scenic countryside near Stony Plain with an out and back course, followed by a 21km run through the town and through a green space with paved paths.  It was sunny and temperature from 10 in the morning to 20 in the afternoon with a brisk northerly wind picking up during the late morning on the bike section.  I managed to finish with a personal best and 9th out of 70 in the 50 to 59 age group with a time of 5:19:43.  In comparison, one of the pros, Tom Evans from Penticton finished in just under 4 hours for a course record. 
 
gord harris

For more information: Race Website

Breaking News - CVRR Thanks Retiring Coach

Tuesday, 7th July at the Track

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking News - 5th Street Mile Full Results

Place Name         Time
   
1 Cameron Levins 3:59:86
2 Mark Cryderman 4:19:63
3 Neil Holm 4:31:16
4 Robin Poirier 4:32:90
5 Chris Barth 4:37:45
6 Jordan Levins 4:49:74
7 Wayne Crowe 4:50:31
8 Darren Skuja 4:53:35
9 Willie Scott 4:57:32
10 Adam Commander 4:57:61
11 Keith Wakelin 5:00:36
12 Duncan  Steuart 5:07:86
13 Rob Kelly 5:08:10
14 Grace  Howard 5:09:59
15 Scott Commander 5:11:32
16 Brian Allaert 5:12:17
17 Steve Blacklock 5:14:55
18 Steve Hanna 5:14:81
19 William Meyer 5:18:83
20 Cody Wangler 5:21:13
21 Trevor Woodland 5:23:42
22 Jason  5:26:02
23 Jamie Kantor 5:27:50
24 Mitch Kirk 5:35:01
25 Kathy Rung 5:37:31
26 Rob Woods 5:39:92
27 Greg Stevens 5:41:63
28 Keaton Dion 5:45:09
29 David Frisch 5:48:09
30 Carlos Brenchley 5:50:32
31 Derek Brenchley 5:51:04
32 Becky Crawford 5:54:46
33 Gary  Duncan 5:55:96
34 Andrea Praegar 5:56:59
35 Stef Schovanell 5:58:16
36 Robin  Dicesare 6:03:48
37 Charlie  6:04:54
38 Karen Sibley 6:05:32
39 Hugh MacKinnon 6:07:10
40 Canlan Stevens 6:07:58
41 Chad Hooker 6:07:89
42 Jake Bean 6:08:23
43 Andrew Meyer 6:08:75
44 Gus Levins 6:09:90
45 J Hoekstra 6:12:17
46 Dave Kenny 6:14:95
47 Grayson Scott 6:15:20
48 Ken Woods 6:15:50
49 Matt Bowell 6:15:81
50 Grayson  6:16:18
51 Laura Wyatt 6:16:60
52 Jacen Bacon 6:17:03
53 Josh West 6:17:41
54 Kayden Dion 6:17:87
55 Ethan Schovanek 6:23:10
56 Katie Norman 6:24:37
57 Bruce Muir 6:26:02
58 Tyler Bowell 6:28:91
59 Ryan West 6:29:33
60 Kori Pruder 6:29:76
61 Brenda Wightman 6:30:77
62 Sarah  6:32:09
63 Mackenzie Kirk 6:32:36
64 Michaela Ashlee 6:32:86
65 Doug Hillian 6:33:70
66 Chloe  Gummer 6:34:29
67 Shayla Phillips 6:39:63
68 Sam  Knowles 6:39:91
69 Leo Rolfe 6:40:08
70 Allison Crawford 6:40:70
71 Stephen  Wakelin 6:41:11
 Luke  Robinson 6:41:11
72 Moira  Ashlee 6:42:10
73 David Legoff 6:42:63
74 Hanna  Kirk 6:43:69
75   6:44:75
76 Roger Burton 6:46:42
77 Brian Novak 6:48:09
78 Barb Levins 6:49:99
79   6:50:49
80 Rachel Lafitte 6:51:14
81 Rick Morson 6:51:49
82 Amy Stewart 6:52:84
83 Susan Stewart 6:54:94
84 Craig Millar 6:55:60
85 Anika Millar 6:56:64
86 Elizabeth  6:56:94
87 Evie Kenny 6:57:37
88 Steve Dion 6:59:11
89 Gillian  7:00:32
90 Michael  7:01:78
91 Elise  7:02:68
92 Julie Kenny 7:03:38
93 Paul Scheel 7:04:29
94 Brent Bain 7:05:00
95 Diane Palmason 7:06:55
96 Chris Robinson 7:08:00
97 Brandon Bacon 7:09:96
98 Gabe Schovanek 7:13:47
99 James  Grant 7:13:83
100 Sequoia Bridges 7:14:29
101 Joshua Anderton-Hooker 7:21:98
102 Bob Vanderzwaag 7:22:51
103 Haley Richardson 7:24:52
104 Mark Grant 7:24:98
105 Keir Schovanek 7:28:53
106 Cossy Dishlevoy 7:28:93
107 Tom Dishlevoy 7:29:63
108 Lizzie  7:30:14
109 Naomi Wharton 7:30:82
110 Joseph Winkelaar 7:31:54
111 Jaden Grant 7:32:00
112 Christopher Graham 7:34:06
113 Ethan Lloyd 7:36:17
114 Manno Theos 7:37:41
115 Heather Greene 7:39:43
116 Liam Crothley 7:40:75
117 Nicholas Gilroy 7:41:32
118 Stacey Dion 7:41:95
119 Isiah Anderton-Hooker 7:42:91
120 Adam  Simpson 7:43:79
121 Johnathan Winkelaar 7:44:17
122 Chris Winkelaar 7:53:37
123 Keith Warton 7:53:74
124 Alexandra Grant 7:54:15
125 Liza Grant 7:54:51
126 Stacey Kerkhoff 7:55:19
127 Gordon  Benson 7:56:89
128 Daniel Kasonen 7:57:38
129 Jackie Kasonen 7:58:31
130 Anna G 7:59:00
131 Terri Lidstone 7:59:46
132 Kim Cambell 8:00:51
133 Alison  Bean 8:01:25
134 Kelly Woods 8:01:79
135 Rick Walcott 8:02:87
136 Bruce Archibald 8:04:73
137 Ben  Praegar 8:06:19
138 Karin  Holm 8:06:58
139 Mathias  Smith 8:11:26
140 Brad Smith 8:12:93
141 P Brugman 8:14:50
142 Isabelle Brugman 8:16:72
143 Bob Sackett 8:17:49
144 Gord Bowbrick 8:26:65
145   8:30:21
146   8:38:65
147 Rebekah Hodar-Anderton 8:39:06
148 Nicole Feltham 8:41:13
149 Lisa Hansen 8:52:33
150 Amaya Gavin 8:52:65
151 Julie Sobchuk 8:54:32
152 Celine  8:54:86
153 Goeff  9:04:05
154 Gideon Loeb 9:04:43
155 Colin  9:04:76
156 Jennifer Loeb 9:05:64
157 Connor Lloyd 9:06:33
158 Lance Lloyd 9:07:81
159 Shauna Rinner 9:09:05
160 Marceia Senchez 9:13:83
161 Veronica Wharton 9:15:87
162 Simon Coley 9:16:27
163 Jack  Coley 9:23:69
164 Archer  9:31:89
165 Kerra  9:32:93
166 Pam Burton 9:33:33
167 Julianna  9:36:01
168 Blair Schamous 9:41:34
169 Arron Schamous 9:41:85
170   9:48:15
171   9:50:04
172 Isaac Vanderviiet 9:52:26
173 Josiah Anderton-Hooker 9:52:69
174 Emma Warren 9:58:83
175 James Warren 10:02:34
176 Marnie Vanderviiet 10:03:23
177 Luke  Hubner 10:06:56
178 Jenny Hubner 10:06:96
179 Rurik Hubner 10:07:29
180 Charley Bridges 10:07:29
181 Mike Bridges 10:07:68
182 Justin  10:13:05
183 Kristen Schmeus 10:13:40
184 Rebecca Winkelaar 10:20:81
185 Michele Bucher 10:29:50
186 Rebecca Leet 10:29:91
187 Zak Ross 10:30:56
188 Kayla Cross 10:30:94
189 Shannon Dawson 10:32:59
190 Minnie Ho 10:33:74
191 Tamara Gillis 10:40:29
192 Donna  Kane 10:40:52
193 Linda Oprica 10:46:54
194 Hannah  Loeb 10:46:47
195 Marge Bowbrick 10:49:44
196 Ellaina Coley 10:49:71
197 Corri Fawcett 11:59:53
198 Paige Stuart 12:14:03
199 Ryan Stuart 12:14:31
200 Kieron Ho-Gillis 13:02:51
201 Ken Gillis 13:02:91
202 Sharon Carrie 13:26:64
203 Daniel Loeb 13:27:18
204 Jerry Loeb 13:27:70
205 Daisy Dargie 13:33:15
206 Anne Harmston 13:34:09
207 Branwen Ackroyd 
208 Jennifer Ackroyd 
209 Sebastion Ackroyd 
210 Blake  
211 Osyn  
212 Judy Woods 
213 Ellaina Praegar 
214 Scott Praegar 

Breaking News - COUGAR WARNING!!!!

Update: they didn't find the cat last night, even with three men and a dog and two firearms....
 
THURS. JULY 9, 7:00 PM
 
While cycling the river trails I was jumped at by a fairly large cougar that, thankfully, stopped about 2 ft. short of taking me down.

WHERE: The "Palm Beach" area - Pipeline/Lake Trail side of the river - about 1/2 way between the dam and the penstock (near the road/path that goes up to the Comox Lake Hostel on Lake Trail Road).

The cougar then proceeded to stalk me down the trail from about 40 or 50 meters away as I tried to back my way out of there walking my bike. When I got around a corner, I jumped on my bike and rode like I've never rode before the hell out of there, looking back over my shoulder all the way.
 
BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL RUNNING OR CYCLING IN THE RIVER AREA. OBVIOUSLY THIS ANIMAL IS NOT INTIMIDATED BY AN ADULT ON A BICYCLE.

RUN IN GROUPS AND/OR BRING A DOG WITH YOU. BETTER YET, USE ALTERNATE AREAS UNTIL THIS COUGAR IS CAUGHT.
 
Now I have to go back in there tonight with the conservation officer and his tracking dog to show them exactly where it was. He thinks it's the same one that attacked a small dog near the Rod & Gun a couple weeks ago. Yikes!
 
Jim Smiley

Breaking News - 40th Annual Nautical Days Roadrace

Click below to get details of this year's race.

For more information: Roadrace Details

Breaking News - 5th Street Mile

Click the link below to view 5th St Mile Photos.

For more information: All Photos

Breaking News - Cancer Fundraising at RVM

Interested in raising funds for cancer research at the Royal Victoria marathon?

If so, see below.

For more information: RVM Fundraising Info

Breaking News - “RUN4FUN” Finishes Second Great Year of Junior Running

    Under beautiful sunny skies and temperatures in the mid 20’s, a large group of keen, young runners ran relays and played running games as part of the final session of “RUN4FUN”, held at the Vanier Track Monday night. This was the second season for the junior running development program organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners and held at various great running locations around the Comox Valley. Over 40 youth from the Valley registered for this year’s program.

   “We’ve really focused on making running fun for all the kids. To let them know they can use running to explore this great place we live and make it part of their lives.” said co-coach Eric Martinat.   

  The program took the youth, ages 8 to 15, to different running venues around the Comox Valley where they competed in a “Poker Run” at Seal Bay, ran the trails along Nymph Falls and Dove Creek. They learned about sports injuries and nutrition from Dr. Wayne Crowe and met with Lene Curts, owner of Extreme Runners, to learn the importance of proper running equipment. They were also treated to after-run smoothies and heard about the importance of eating and drinking the proper fuel to power runners over the long haul from Alan Murray at ZenZero.

   Robyn Dicesare, co-coach of the team, was elated with the success and loved working with enthusiastic kids. As a grande finale, several of the participants will he hammering down Fifth St. in front of crowds of spectators on Canada Day July 1st in the 5th St. Mile Road Race hosted by the CVRR.

  Look for the “RUN4FUN” program again next spring after March break. The CVRR would like to thank the sponsors of RUN4FUN: Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty, Extreme Runners, SwagPromo.com, Hot Chocolates and Zen Zero. Congratulations to all the participants.

For more info on local running see the CVRR website at www.cvrr.ca.

Photo 1: Runners sprint to put on their running shoe as part of the wrap-up games at the final “RUN4FUN”.

 

 

Photo 2: Kaden Dion heads for the finish with the others in hot pursuit in the one-shoe race.

 

 

Photo 3: Test of skill – Run with an egg on a spoon!

Breaking News - BC Record Holders

The new holders of the BC record for the 4x400m relay, Men 50-54.

 

CVRR's own Frank Graham, Lindsay Elms, Wayne Crowe and Keith Wakelin.

 

Breaking News - 9th Annual Spirit Run/Walk

This is your invitation to participate in
The 9th Annual Spirit Run/Walk in Powell River BC
Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Race Distances: 5 km, 10 km, 20K 4-person relay, HALF MARATHON

For more information click below.

For more information: Race Website

Breaking News - 5th Street Mile

 

 

 

Lead the Parade!

Comox Valley Road Runners
Presents

5th Street Mile

July 1

Free Registration 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Race start 10:00 a.m. sharp

Fifth and Woods

Run under 4 min?
Win running shoes from Extreme Runners

Breaking News - Summer Solstice BBQ

 

 

Plan to attend the CVRR summer social event of the year, the Summer Solstice BBQ at track will be held on June 16th, following the Tuesday Track WorkOut at ~6:30ish. This event is open to club members & their families and is held right beside the track.

CVRR supplies the industrial size BBQ which is on loan from the great bunch at Valley West Autohaus. Sam Knowles (who replaced Bob Sackett) is the pyromaniac who gets that baby heated with some pretty impressive moves with a blow torch!!!

Everyone is asked to bring a chair or blanket, something to throw on the BBQ , a beverage & dish to share.

As this year's Summer Solstice BBQ will be days before the Kusam Klimb & the Relay for Life, it will be a perfect opportunity to exchange Kusam survival tips & to make last minute contributions to the CVRR Relay team!! So bring some moola & your Kusam wisdom.

F.M. I. please contact Mary Ann at rolfecounselling@telus.net

Breaking News - CVRR Relay for Life Raffle

The ever popular Raffle Draw for the Relay for Life for a Cure for Cancer is on once again with all proceeds being added on to the funds raised by the CVRR Relay Team.

For a minimum $5.00 donation you can enter to win one of the following prizes.

1) A $30.00 gift certificate from Extreme Runners

2) A 2 hr. kayak rental for 2 from Comox Valley Kayaks.

3) A 1yr. single membership to CVRR & your choice of either an entry to the C.V. 1/2 Marathon or Learn to Run Clinic.

4) A Runner's Goodie Bag donated by M.A. Rolfe

Enter at Extreme Runners. Max. of 5 entries per person.

 

Breaking News - RVM Early Bird Rate

May 15th is the cut off for the Early Bird Rate for the Royal Victoria Marathon/Half /8km.

F.M.I. visit www.royalvictoriamarathon.com

Breaking News - Wind Warning and Rain Doesn’t Dampen Spirits of Junior Runners

   An Environment Canada wind warning and wet conditions this past Monday weren’t enough to deter 21 intrepid junior runners from completing a challenging course at Seal Bay Park as part of the 2009 Run4Fun Junior Running Development Program. This session was number 5 of the 8 part community fitness program organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners that promotes healthy lifestyles, nutrition and running for youth between 8 and 15 years of age.

   After coach Robyn (Dicesare) warmed up the group, they line up to start running a route similar to the annual Jingle Bell Run held in November each year at Seal Bay Park. At the Jungle Bell Run, runners collect playing cards at several points along the route and the best playing card hand wins. But to make the event more challenging still, the Run4Fun runners had to complete a fun task at each station before receiving a card.  The runners were joined at the start by the Hot Chocolates bunny, who led the runners out sprinting down the trail. All the runners completed the course and the best card hand for boys and girls received prizes. The first boy and girl to finish also received yummy chocolate medals. All the runners had a great time learning about running in Seal Bay Park and were thankful the wind and rain held off for the run.

   Next Monday’s session, the youth meet at the Courtenay Air Park to run the River Walk trail and will end up at Zen Zero. Special thanks to Brenda Wightman (the bunny), and Hot Chocolates of Courtenay for donating medals and Sport Beans for the runners. Thanks also to the volunteers who assisted dealing the cards.

Breaking News - CVRR BOSTON RESULTS

Name                  Time       Overall    Age

Wayne Crowe     2:53:39     682       17

Andrea Prager     3:35:44   8944     1456

Roz Smith          3:36:45    9236       6

Coco Elgood       3:37:58    9560     330

Janet Green        3:53:11   13509      27

2009 Results - Sooke River 10K - April 19, 2009

Comox Valley Road Runners Results - 7 Finishers

OA     Group             Name                Time  KM Mile
69   11/32    M4549 Gordon DeLaval   43:47 4:23 7:03
111   9/16    F3034 Kathy Rung          46:19 4:38 7:27
112   4/22    F4044 Anna Diedricksen   46:20 4:38 7:27
125   6/13    M6064 Jack Penfold         47:09 4:43 7:35
195   10/26  F4549 Brenda Wightman  51:11 5:07 8:14
264    1/1     F7074 Diane Palmason     57:40 5:46 9:17
318    23/24 M5054 Keith Wakelin     1:08:11 6:49 10:58

Final Club Standings

Pos  Club                         Total Pts    Sooke Pts  Finishers

1 Prairie Inn Harriers           5943        681           (45)
(453 Finishers) 

2 Frontrunners Westshore  2181        328           (25)
(199 Finishers) 

3 CVRR                            1840        86            (7)
(165 Finishers) 

4 CeeVacs Road Runners   1484        250          (18)                     (131 Finishers) 

5 Bastion Running Club      1358         204          (15)
(133 Finishers) 

6 River Runners                 1297         49             (3)
(131 Finishers) 

For more information: Click for Full Results

Breaking News - Relay for Life

CVRR has officially entered a team for this year's Relay For Life fundraising event on Saturday June 20.
We had great participation last year and challenged the Campbell Shorerunners team to see who could raise the most funds. Everyone had a great time and we were very successful in raising more than $4000 for this good cause.
Celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer. Cancer survivors join together at Relay For Life to walk the Survivors' Victory Lap - the first lap of the event. Their strength and courage gives hope to others.
 
 
Remember loved ones  lost to the disease. At Relay For Life, luminaries are lit during a moving ceremony at dusk. Their light pays tribute to loved ones and provides inspiration to participants all night long.
 
We Relay because we have been touched by cancer and desperately want to put an end to the disease. It's an opportunity for you to make a personal contribution and take action.
 

To join our team or to make a donation go to the website at www.cancer.ca/relay. Team captain is Wayne Crowe. Contact him at ws_crowe@hotmail.com or 250-339-7450 if you have any questions.

Breaking News - Thurs. Trail Run Social

Note: The 1st Thurs. Trail Run Social, originally scheduled for April 30th, has been postponed to MAY 14th.

Following the trail run at Trent River, we'll be heading over to Billy D's for a bite.

I've made reservations for 25 at 7 :15 P.M.

Please RSVP Mary Ann at rolfecounselling@telus.net as it will be 1st come 1st serve!!

As the weather improves we plan to host the socials outdoors  at various locales. So keep checking the CVRR website for updates on Bar B Q's, tailgate parties, picnics, etc. following the trail runs.

Breaking News - Bevan Trail Running Pictures posted

Click on Pictures for Thursday night's trail running pictures.

Breaking News - CVRR ESTABLISHES NEW GRANT FOR YOUTH

The Comox Valley Roadrunners are excited to announce the establishment of a new annual training grant to assist junior runners from the Comox Valley in achieving their goals. The annual $200 grant will be directed to a qualified applicant under the age of 19 who is competing in running, cross country, triathlon or track running events at a regiona, provincial, or national level. Applicants must be a member of a running club, association or school team and/or entrant in a regional, provincial or national competition including school athletic competitions.
 
CVRR is a non profit club established in 1980 with a mandate to promote running and healthy lifestyle in our community. It has been home to hundreds of runners over the years and continues to service the running community with events, training assistance, support and activities. We have also been consistant contributors to many local charitable and community associations through donation, participation and loan of services or gear. Major annual events include:  the Comox Valley Half Marathon each March, the 5k learn to run clinics each winter, the Fifth St. Mile starting off the July 1st parade, the Comox Nautical Days 4 Miler, and the annual Jingle bell run in December to benefit the local food bank.
 
It is with great pride that we began reaching out to youth interested in running with the start of the Run4Fun youth clinics in 2008. These have become very popular and the institution of this youth training grant is a natural extension of that commitment by the club. More details about the grant and the qualifying criteria as well as an application form can be found at Extreme Runners on 5th St. or by contacting club president Jim Smiley 250-338-2402 jsmiley@shaw.ca. Applications for the 2009 grant must be submitted by April 30.

For Criteria for the Grant and an Application Form, Click below.

For more information: Application Information

2009 Merville 15-k Results - Merville 15k Results - updated Fri. 10

 Merville – 15k
OA     Group           Name               Time    Pace KM Mile
11 1/32     M5054 Wayne Crowe    57:08       3:49 6:08
17 3/32     M5054 Frank Graham    58:01      3:52 6:13
19 4/12     M2529 Brad Crowe       58:03      3:52 6:14
40 6/34     M4549 Eric Martinat      1:02:14   4:09 6:41
68 12/34   M4549 Jerry VAN          1:06:02   4:24 7:05
71 5/10     M3034 Steve Blacklock  1:06:19   4:25 7:07
74 14/34   M4549 Jamie Kantor      1:07:03  4:28 7:12
75 1/23     F3539 Mary Bridges      1:07:08  4:29 7:12
80 15/34   M4549 Gordon DeLaval  1:07:34  4:30 7:15
91 16/34   M4549 Danny Keyes      1:08:16  4:33 7:19
100 5/18   F3034 Kathy Rung        1:09:03   4:36 7:25
118 6/31   F4549 Robyn Dicesare    1:10:59  4:44 7:37
120 8/19   M6064 Jack Penfold        1:11:18  4:45 7:39
127 2/12   F6064 Roslyn Smith       1:12:40  4:51 7:48
143 24/34 M4549 Mark Arsenault    1:14:00  4:56 7:56
144 6/26   F5054 Karen Sibley        1:14:05  4:56 7:57
150 7/26   F5054 Zina Richmond    1:14:44  4:59 8:01
159 7/25   F4044 Anna Diedricksen 1:15:42  5:03 8:07
165 10/26 F5054 Karen MacDonald 1:15:59  5:04 8:09
177 2/15   F5559 Jody Morrison     1:17:26  5:10 8:18
178 12/26 F5054 Karen Tobacca     1:17:30 5:10 8:19
180 11/19 M6064 Sam Knowles      1:17:55  5:12 8:22

186 12/19 M6064 Lynn Fox           1:18:13  5:13 8:24
197 20/32 M5054 Algy Goosen      1:19:05  5:16 8:29
217 11/31 F4549 Sandra Rowland  1:21:03   5:24 8:42
221 26/32 M5054 Leo Rolfe           1:21:58  5:28 8:48
233 6/15   F5559 Ngaire Mouritsen 1:23:36  5:34 8:58
243 2/2     F2024 Angelica Lauzon  1:24:38  5:39 9:05
258 17/19 M6064 Wayne Boyce     1:26:32  5:46 9:17
274 1/2     F7074 Diane Palmason   1:28:12 5:53 9:28

298 11/12 M6569 Tom Munro        1:32:28  6:10 9:55

Club Standings

Pos      Club                                     Points   Apr 5 Merville 15K
1 Prairie Inn Harriers (408 Finishers)   5269     387 (25 runners)
2 Frontrunners Westshore (174)       1853      275 (20 runners)
3 Comox Valley Road R   (155)      1754     397 (31 runners)
4 CeeVacs Road Runners (113)          1235     150 (13)
5 Bastion Running Club (118)             1154     128 (12)
6 River Runners (118)                       1141      414 (45)

For more information: Click for Full Results

Breaking News - CVRR Celebs

Taken from the current issue of Candian Running p. 74.

Can you spot the CVRR'ers???

 

Breaking News - BIG 60 BREAKFAST RUN

On Sun. April 26th, Helen J. will be hosting a breakfast walk/run from her home in Comox. Note: (An email will be sent to all CVRR members with her address & directions on how to get there. )

The plan is to leave her place at 9 A.M., run/walk for ~ 1 hr. & then return for breakfast. Please bring an item to share!

Although its Helen's 60th birthday, she has requested that gifts not be brought!!!!

Hope to see a good turnout of CVRR'ers eager to run, eat  & celebrate Helen's big 60!!!

 

Breaking News - Learn to Run, 5-k Race Results

Dan Lamoureux       24:17
Brent Bain               25:01
Gabrielle Lang          26:58
Gail Pridmore           26:59
Sally Dorran            27:04
Bob Vanderzerwaag 28:13
Judi Boutillier          43:21
Janice Stefanson     43:26
Tammy Hood          43:28
Jessica Nixon          28:29
Beth Campbell         28:29
Patty Brugman        28:47
Maureen Boldt         28:47
Nayna Naswell          28:56
Tania Formosa         29:56
Cheryl Lamoureux    30:20
Barbara Bandlow      30:22
Ecenith Lavae          30:23
Bobbi Lalumiere      30:32
Audry Harms          31:06
Jennifer Ackroyd     32:08
Tilli Kimler               32:12
Conroy Briiczin       32:53
John Wichers         33:06
Hernie Van Gerwen 33:06
Ann Leung             33:26
Kristen Sloan          33:31
Lynne obeick          34:33
Terry Clark             34:37
Kareen Frenette      34:44
Anabelle St. Denis   34:44
Margaret Slater       34:49
Lori King                34:50
Linda Munro           35:25
Colleen Battista       35:05
Shelagh Kentor       35:06
Sharon Lathan        35:10
Maura Walls            35:15
Heather Pratt          35:15
Dannielle Walls        35:16
Sonja Leach           36:19
Claudia Boyce         36:19
Bradwon Ackroyd   36:41
Jennifer Coobs        37:43
Roarke Coobs         37:45
Pam Burton           38:32
Roger Burton         38:33
Cal Nixon               38:50
Stacey Ryan           40:10
Sandra Josephson  40:11
Sue Cambrey         40:15
Cliff Boldt               40:22
Dora Mould            42:19
Cathy Slater           43:34
Tammy Price          45:38

Breaking News - Comox Valley Half Marathon Pictures

Here is a link to the NJW Pictures for Sunday's Race.

For more information: Pictures Link

2009 Results - Comox Valley Half Marathon Results - Updated

Place Group  Name                          Time      Pace KM Mile

20   1/41   M5054 Wayne Crowe      1:20:08  3:48 6:07
30   5/14   M2529 Brad Crowe         1:23:26  3:57 6:22
31   3/41   M5054 Keith Wakelin       1:23:35  3:58 6:23
48   4/41   M5054 Frank Graham      1:26:35  4:06 6:36
58   6/41   M5054 Lindsay Elms        1:28:15  4:11 6:44
70   10/41 M4549 Eric Martinat         1:29:35  4:15 6:50
93   1/9     M6569 Ken Richardson    1:32:23  4:23 7:03
111 16/41 M4549 Jerry Van             1:34:05  4:28 7:11
126 18/41 M4549 Gordon DeLaval    1:35:57  4:33 7:19
127 19/41 M4549 Jamie Kantor        1:36:16  4:34 7:21
140 13/41 M5054 John Marisco        1:37:25  4:37 7:26
145 6/36   F3034 Kathy Rung          1:37:43  4:38 7:27
154 1/7     F6064 Roslyn Smith        1:38:23  4:40 7:30
157 8/36   F3034 Andrea Prager       1:38:28  4:40 7:31
163 4/39   F3539 Mary Bridges         1:39:08  4:42 7:34
167 23/39 M3539 Chris Winkelaar     1:39:21  4:43 7:35
168 21/41 M4549 Danny Keyes        1:39:25  4:43 7:35
191 20/27 M3034 Steve Blacklock     1:42:15  4:51 7:48
203 8/40   F4549 Robyn Dicesare     1:42:56  4:53 7:51
204 9/43   F4044 Coco Elgood         1:42:57  4:53 7:51
215 29/39 M3539 Scott Pilcher         1:43:33  4:54 7:54
236 14/43 F4044 Anna Diedricksen   1:45:22  5:00 8:02
239 3/13   F2024 Megan Startup      1:45:32  5:00 8:03
248 7/23   M6064 Jack Penfold         1:46:10  5:02 8:06
267 19/43 F4044 Cheryl Eldridge      1:47:44  5:06 8:13
270 32/41 M4549 Mark Arsenault     1:48:03  5:07 8:15
272 5/27   F5054 Karen MacDonald  1:48:22  5:08 8:16
279 6/27   F5054 Zina Richmond     1:49:28  5:11 8:21
325 16/40 F4549 Brenda Wightman 1:53:32  5:23 8:40
337 12/23 M6064 Sam Knowles       1:54:24  5:25 8:44
343 13/23 M6064 Lynn Fox             1:54:41  5:26 8:45
353 11/27 F5054 Cathy Clark           1:56:16  5:31 8:52
354 18/40 F4549 Sandra Rowland    1:56:27  5:31 8:53
355 5/13   F2024 Angelica Lauzon    1:56:29  5:31 8:53
391 22/32 F2529 Vanessa Proulx     2:00:47  5:44 9:13
394 4/7     F6064 Sonja Leach         2:01:16  5:45 9:15
466 21/23 M6064 Wayne Boyce       2:10:53  6:12 9:59
492 18/22 M5559 Steve Chambers   2:17:27  6:31 10:29
496 8/9     M6569 Tom Munro          2:19:32  6:37 10:39
516 26/27 F5054 Leslie Dargie          2:28:02  7:01 11:18

522 23/23 M6064 Stewart White       2:30:02  7:07 11:27

Overall Club Standings

Pos Club Total Club Points Pioneer Cobble Hill Cedar Hatley Bazan CVHalf

1 Prairie Inn Harriers           4838  1180 820 723 810 750 555

2 Frontrunners Westshore  1548  219  227 273 263 407 159

3 Comox Valley RR           1298 166  220 213 165 144 390

4 CeeVacs Road Runners    1057  189  216 184 190 160 118

5 Bastion Running Club       1025 123  128 279 142 164 189

6 Oceanside Running Club    734   86   113 214  52 182  87

For more information: Click for Full Results

Breaking News - 2009 Half Marathon Results

Results are now up on the PIH site at:
http://pih.bc.ca/results/Series.php?race=167

Breaking News - LEARN TO RUN 5KM.

Congratulations to all the runners/walkers who completed the Learn to Run Clinic's 5k, Fun Run!!! For many it was their very first race & for others it was their fastest time ever.

Way to go all runners/walkers. Check out the pics on this website.

Hope to see you keeners out at some CVRR/Extreme Runners group runs or at Tues. track workout.

FMI browse this website or contact Extreme Runners at 703-9544.

Breaking News - CVRR Apparel Still Available

The CVRR Executive is pleased to announce that the following CVRR clothing from Sugoi is still available for the members. 

Contact either Robyn at robyn.dicesare@ocdsb.ca
or
Roz at bobroz@shaw.ca

Men's & Women's Tech Tee: $40
Run Singlet (men’s):  $32
Fizz Tank (women’s): $45
Women’s Tech Tee, $40.00      Women's Fizz Tank, $45.00

                                                                   

                                   

 Men's Tech Tee, $40.00                              Men's Tech Mesh Singlet, $32.00

                             

Click on picture for a bigger view.

2009 Results - Bazan Bay 5-k Results

OA     Group        Name                  Time Pace  KM Mile
51   11/22 M2529 Brad Crowe          18:09  3:38 5:51
54   1/36   M5054 Wayne Crowe       18:17  3:39 5:53
81   4/36   M5054 Keith Wakelin       18:56  3:47 6:06
98   9/39   M4549 Eric Martinat         19:31  3:54 6:17
161 6/31   F3539 Mary Bridges         21:01  4:12 6:46
171 19/26 M3034 Steve Blacklock     21:12  4:14 6:49
208 6/38   F4549 Robyn Dicesare     21:55  4:23 7:03
281 8/37   F5054  Karen MacDonald  23:30  4:42 7:34
332 10/26 F4044  Karin Holm           25:03  5:01 8:04
371 1/3     F7074 Diane Palmason     26:21 5:16 8:29
426 10/16 M6569 Tom Munro           28:06  5:37 9:03

For more information: Click for Full Results

Breaking News - Tuesday A.M. Runs

Just a reminder about another organized group run,which may be of particular interest to new runners & participants in the Learn to Run Clinic!!

Every Tuesday at 9 A.M., Lene & others lead 45 min-1 hour walk/runs from Extreme Runners on 5th Street. Distance & levels are determined by participants, so all are encouraged to attend. Its a great way to meet other runners of the same pace & to explore various routes from roads to trails!

F.M.I. contact Extreme at 703-9544.

Breaking News - RUN4FUN

“RUN4FUN” Starting Its Second Great Year for Youth from 9-15 years 

     The Comox Valley Road Runners Junior Development Program “Run4Fun” is an initiative focusing on using running as a fun tool to guide youth towards a healthier lifestyle. Last year’s inaugural program was a great success and the CVRR looks forward to building an even better program this year. The program is designed to promote physical fitness and healthy lifestyle choices. The focus is on running and fitness but also teaches about diet & nutrition, and injury prevention. The goal of “Run4Fun” is to involve Comox Valley youth in the sport of distance or cross-country running on an ongoing basis.

    The first session will be held starting at 5pm on Monday March 30, 2009 at the Vanier Track on Vanier Rd., Courtenay, with subsequent sessions held at various trails and parks in the Comox Valley. The program finishes on Monday June 1st with the “grande finale” being to participate/compete in the CVRR 5th Street Mile held on Canada Day in downtown Courtenay. Cost for the program is $20.00 per participant, which includes membership to CVRR, a cool T-shirt and water bottle. This program is sponsored by the CVRR, Re/Max Ocean Pacific Realty and Extreme Runners.

Drop into Extreme Runners on 5th Street in Courtenay to pick-up a program information pamphlet. For more information about the program contact Robyn Dicesare or Eric Martinat at 250-331-0254 or e-mail robyn.dicesare@ocdsb.ca or gros_matou@hotmail.com.

Breaking News - FASHION SHOW- L to R CLINIC

A huge thanks to Lene at Extreme Runners for once again supplying our models with the latest hi tech gear to wear at the clinic's fashion show.

Models: Helen J., Debbie P., Rick & Betty C. &  Jamie K. were an absolute hoot! They were all so professional, dignified and truly made fellow CVRR'ers proud!!!

MC & music Mama Leslie D. matched the music to the model and kept the place rocking!

Pics are up on the web, unfortunately the photographer (moi) doesn't quite have the hang of her new camera! (I thought point & shoot meant exactly that!!!).

Anyway some great photo's of:

Betty stripping off layers & Jamie producing 6 concealed beers were too unclear to be posted. So sorry folks!

Thanks also to Tom M. who showed up too late to model his gear. Tom, there's always next year.

Once again thanks all. CVRR'ers rock!!

 

2009 Results - Hatley Castle 8k Results

OA   Group              Name              Time        Km   Mile
28   2/34 M5054   Frank Graham         31:15  3:54 6:17
31   5/15 M2529   Brad Crowe            31:38  3:57 6:22
70   10/41 M4549 Eric Martinat           33:58  4:15 6:50
101 5/20 M6064   John Ingram           35:09  4:24 7:04
112 7/26 F3539    Mary Bridges          35:41  4:28 7:11
140 21/41 M4549  Gordon DeLaval     37:18  4:40 7:30
170 3/31 F4549    Robyn Dicesare       38:35  4:49 7:46
199 16/20 M3034 Steve Blacklock       39:41  4:58 7:59
201 10/20 M6064 Jack Penfold            39:43  4:58 7:59
223 8/31 F4549    Brenda Wightman   41:01  5:08 8:15
257 13/20 M6064 Lynn Fox                42:17  5:17 8:30
261 11/23 F5054 Karen MacDonald     42:25  5:18 8:32
267 15/20 M6064 Sam Knowles          42:40  5:20 8:35
270 21/34 M5054 Leo Rolfe                42:45  5:21 8:36
281 13/23 F5054 Cathy Clark              43:16  5:24 8:42
367 13/14 M6569 Tom Munro             48:59  6:07 9:51

For more information: Click for Full Results

2009 Results - Cedar Results

OA  Group         Name                   Time    Km Mile
5    1/30    M4044   Neil Holm         41:04    3:25         

31  3/31    M5054  Frank Graham   46:12  3:51 6:12
44  10/19  M2529 Brad Crowe        47:48  3:59 6:25
65  4/31    M5054  Lindsay Elms     50:01  4:10  6:42                        

66  5/38    M4549 Eric Martinat       50:01 4:10 6:42
94  1/3      F1619 Grace Howard     52:18 4:22 7:01
95  2/17    F3539 Mary Bridges       52:19  4:22 7:01
101 8/16   M3034  Daniel Girard      52:48  4:24  7:05  

125 17/38 M4549 Grdon DeLaval     54:31  4:33 7:19
127 6/17   F3034 Kathy Rung         54:36  4:33 7:19
133 1/11   F6064 Roslyn Smith       55:10 4:36 7:24
138 5/38   F4549 Robyn Dicesare    55:26 4:37 7:26
169 7/29   F4044 Anna Diedricksen  57:12  4:46 7:40
259 3/11   F6064 Lynn Fox             1:02:29 5:12 8:23
261 14/30  F5054 Karen MacDonald 1:02:55 5:15 8:26
278 13/19  M6064 Jack Penfold        1:04:11  5:21 8:36
279 14/19  M6064 Sam Knowles       1:04:14  5:21 8:37
283 19/38  F4549  Brenda Wightman 1:04:23  5:221 8:38 

343 1/2      F7074 Diane Palmason    1:10:21 5:52 9:26

For more information: Click for Full Results

Breaking News - Another Super SnowShoe/Fondue /Games Nite

On Sat., ten energetic RoadRunners bushwacked & climbed the outback of Mt. Washington for two solid hours under the guidance of Leo Vogel. Conditions were ideal, the company was fantastic & Leo had us all in a sweat!!! 

The sweating didn't end there however. After enjoying cheese, broth, & chocolate fondues & appies, the intensely competitive CRANIUM CHALLENGE took place.

The RoadRunners showcased their many talents including whistling (HA HA), spelling backwards, sculpting, impersonating etc. etc. with the Richmonds, Leo V. & Jim S. beating out the other 3 teams.

A huge thanks to Rick & Betty who once again kindly hosted this event in their incredble home. You guys sure know how to host a great party! Thanks a million!  

  

2009 Results - Cobble Hill 10k Results UPDATED

Place   Group            Name                Time      Pace

43   3/41     M5054  Keith Wakelin     38:02  3:48 6:07
44   4/41     M5054  Wayne Crowe     38:04  3:48 6:08
50   5/41     M5054  Frank Graham     38:26  3:51 6:11
65   7/19     M2529  Brad Crowe        39:28  3:57 6:21
90   11/50   M4549  Eric Martinat        41:15  4:08 6:38
103  5/13    F1619  Grace Howard      41:57  4:12 6:45
142  7/31    F3539  Mary Bridges        43:56  4:24 7:04
169  25/50  M4549  Gordon DeLaval   44:55  4:29 7:14
174  10/23  F3034  Kathy Rung          45:01  4:30 7:15
180  15/20  M3034  Daniel Girard        45:26  4:33  7:19

200  1/9      F6064  Roslyn Smith       46:10   4:37 7:26
205  9/24    F4044  Anna Diedricksen  46:32  4:39 7:29
206  4/37    F4549  Robyn Dicesare    46:34  4:39 7:30
208  29/50  M4549 Danny Keyes        46:38  4:40 7:30
216  8/20    M6064 Jack Penfold         46:48  4:41 7:32
313  15/37  F4549  Brenda Wightman 51:42  5:10 8:19
363  22/37  F4549  Deb Wakelin         55:07  5:31  8:52

372  15/31  F5054  Karen MacDonald  55:27  5:33 8:55
375  20/20  M3034 Steve Blacklock     55:37  5:34 8:57
405  1/1      F7074 Diane Palmason     57:55 5:48 9:19

For more information: Click for Full Results

2009 Results - Abominable CVRR Members

The 1st Race in the 2009 Yeti Snowshoe series took place at Mount Washington on Saturday, January 17th in bright sunshine.

Results now available, see link below.

Check out the Pictures page for a view of the participants from the CVRR, participating under the Extreme Runners banner.

For more information: Results

Breaking News - GREEN COMMITTE

New for the CVRR.

The time seems right for our club to do what we can to "green up" our various events.To this end, allow me to introduce the CVRR Green Committe members! So far we have Helen Jackson, Roz Smith, Karen MacDonald, Leslie Dargie & Cathy Bulger. Hey no guys???

The idea for the committe was raised and voted in at the AGM. At our inaugural coffee shop meeting on Jan. 2nd, we discussed our purpose, approach and goals.

We are hoping that club members will contribute ideas, knowledge, experience and concerns, so that, as a club, we can find Earth-friendly ways to do what we do!!!

The neat thing is that a lot of good changes have already crept into our events. For example, car pooling has increased noticeably; the Jingle Bell Run had composting & recycling containers (thanks Sharon C.!), and some CVRRe's are even taking along their own travel mugs to events!

Any ideas? Initiatives? Interest in joining this committe?

Please contact Helen at hjackson@telus.net

 

 

2009 Results - Pioneer 8k Results

Place   Group           Name                   Time        Pace
    
                                                                      Km Mile
16     2/43    M4044   Neil Holm            26:07    3:16 5:15
51     3/52    M5054   Wayne Crowe      28:54    3:37 5:49
83     6/52    M5054   Keith Wakelin      30:31    3:49 6:08
84     7/52    M5054   Frank Graham     30:32     3:49 6:09
101   15/28  M2529   Brad Crowe         31:22     3:55 6:19
174   12/39  F3539    Mary Bridges       34:12     4:17 6:53
187   16/33  M3539   Chris Winkelar      34:41     4:20 6:59
208   28/63  M4549   Gordon Delaval     35:33     4:27 7:09
244   9/43    F4549   Robyn Dicesare     36:20     4:33 7:19
278   10/33  F4044   Anna Diedricksen   37:22     4:40 7:31
288   1/10    F6064   Roslyn Smith        37:32     4:41 7:33
290   36/63  M4549   Danny Keyes        37:33     4:42 7:33
399   17/42  F5054   Karen MacDonald   41:02     5:08 8:15
463   28/43  F4549   Brenda Wightman  43:34     5:27 8:46
484   1/2      F7074   Diane Palmason     44:23     5:33 8:56
496   19/25  F2529   Crystal Dargie       44:56     5:37 9:02
545   28/42  F5054   Leslie Dargie          47:03    5:53 9:28
577   14/15  M6569  Tom Munro            50:47    6:21 10:13

For more information: Click here for Full Results

Breaking News - COMOX VALLEY ROAD RUNNERS CLOTHING

The CVRR Executive is pleased to offer you a chance to reorder CVRR clothing from Sugoi. Orders are due by July 20th.

Payment to be made by cheque payable to Comox Valley Road Runners.
Order Forms are available at Tuesday Track, or Thursday Trail Runs from Robyn or Roz.

For more information contact Robyn (250-331-0254) or Roz (250-339-1070).

Women's/Men's Tech Tee: $35
Run Singlet (men’s):  $35
Ready Jacket:  $100

If you’re not sure of the sizing, you can check at the Sugoi website, or try on similar Sugoi items for sizing purposes at ExtremeRunners.

Women’s Tech Tee, $35.00             

        

 

 

 

 

Men's Tech Tee, $35.00                               Men's Tech Mesh Singlet, $35.00

 

 

 

 

Custom Ready Run Jacket, $100.00

 

 

 

 

Go to Pictures for a bigger view.

Breaking News - WHAT A PARTY!!!!!

Thanks to all you lively RoadRunners for rocking the night away last night at the Xmas Party!!

It was so great seeing a mix of newcomers, oldtimers (Ha HA) pool runners, swimfitters all blending together on the dance floor. Some travelled from as far away as Victoria & Campbell River to shake it up on the dance floor till almost midnight!!

As usual, there was plenty of help with set up, tear down, clean up & recycling! Special thanks to Rick & Betty & Maggie A. & to the crew who did dishes & lastly to Sam & Craig who hung in there till the wee hours until the hall was ready to lock up!

Last but not least, a huge thanks to Frank for doing such a great job MCing!

Thanks to the exec for awarding me the 2008 Volunteer of the Year. I was truly fooled but am very appreciative. I am very proud of my Socials' Gal title & enjoy the position immensely.

Again thanks all for another rocking CVRR Xmas Party.

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