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Merville 15k race video - top finishers. The Merville 15k is the seventh race of the Frontrunners Vancouver Island Race Series.
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Sheldon, a co-worker, friend and running partner of mine thought he had a good idea once. I will share that good idea with you, but just indulge me for a moment.
He and I worked at a software company, in corporate sales, pitching to Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies that were scattered throughout the universe. Wal-Mart, Disney, NASA, CSIS, FBI, Lockheed Martin, Siemens, EA Sports, Microsoft, RCMP, Boeing (“Boing” as I referred to them, because of their recurring layoffs and re-hirings), name a company, we liaised with them. Sales was our job, running was our focus.
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Post-race interview with Cheryl Davies of the Nanaimo Bastion Running Club. Davies won the Frontrunners Vancouver Island Race Series seventh event, the Merville 15k. The Merville 15k takes place in Merville, just north of Courtenay, BC on Vancouver Island.
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Interview with Nick Walker, winner of the 2013 Merville 15k. The race is the seventh event in the Vancouver Island Race Series. Walker, a former University of Victoria Vike will be racing the BMO Vancouver Marathon.
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As has been widely reported, Cameron Levins has joined the Nike Oregon Project. After having won the NCAA 5,000m and 10,000m Championships while running for Division 1 Southern Utah University, then competing for Canada at the 2012 London Olympic Games in the 5,000m and 10,000m events, it appears that this is the next logical step for his running career.
Race Results Weekly reported that going-forward he will also be working with famed coach Alberto Salazar. Levins told Athletics Illustrated, “I knew very quickly that this is a program I wanted to be a part of, and that I could do very well training with such fantastic athletes.”https://can.milesplit.com/articles/101578-simon-bairu-interview
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Athletics Canada announced on March 28th 2013, that Nepean, Ontario’s Scott MacDonald is the new High Performance Director with Athletics Canada, the national governing body for the sport of athletics. The position was previously managed by Martin Goulet for sixteen years, until January 23rd, 2013. MacDonald was hired from within, as he was the Director of National teams since 2005.
MacDonald competed for the University of Michigan under coach Ron Warhurst and studied American History and English Literature.
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A casual Skype conversation with Natasha Fraser, who had just returned from the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
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Canadian steeplechaser Chris Winter, of Vancouver, BC competed in the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championshipswhich took place in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday, the 24th of March. He finished in 33rd position and second Canadian, which helped Team Canada finish eighth overall. HIs finishing time was 34:15, exactly one and a half minutes off of first place and 19 seconds behind teammate Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catherines, Ontario. Ahmed finished 22nd overall.
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OTTAWA - Athletics Canada announced today that Scott MacDonald is taking on the role of High Performance Director. MacDonald was promoted from within, having held the role of Director of National Team Programs since 2005.
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Comox Valley Half Marathon showing top-Canadian middle-distance runner Geoff Martinson's first half-marathon race with a Canadian master's record attempt by Jimi Finlayson. The Comox Valley Half Marathon is race number eight of the BC Timex Road Race Series and number six of the Vancouver Island Race Series
By Paul Gains
Five weeks of high altitude training in Kenya appears to have done Lanni Marchant the world of good as she has been setting the Canadian road racing scene alight.
Last weekend the London, Ontario native smashed the nine year old course record for the Around The Bay 30km race by almost a minute and a half finishing in a time of 1:44:40. That outstanding performance was preceded by a new personal best half marathon time in Nashville (1:12:17).
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Post race interview with Victoria's Jim Finlayson, after his attempt to break the Canadian Half Marathon master's record.
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Twenty-four-year-old Rachel Cliff of Vancouver, BC competed in the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where she helped Team Canada (senior women) to a top-10 finish. Teammate Natash Fraser finished one position in front of Cliff however, they recorded identical times. They finished in 24th and 25th position, respectively.
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Post race interview with Catrin Jones, winner of the Comox Valley Half Marathon and the Rift Valley Marathon in Kenya. She had returned to Victoria twelve hours earlier and decided to take in the event, which takes place nearly three hours north of Victoria, BC.
Chris Moulton Speed River athletes were in action across the globe and on every type of surface this weekend. From the World Cross Country Championships in Poland, to North America’s oldest road race in Hamilton and a kickoff to the outdoor track season in North Carolina it was a whirlwind weekend featuring many great results.
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The Comox Valley Marathon took place today, Sunday March 24th, under cool, breezy conditions with light drizzle. Five hundred and twelve runners started the race at 11:00 AM in downtown Courtney, BC. The winners were Geoff Martinson and Catrin Jones, of Victoria, BC.
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Bydgoszcz, Poland - All four Canadian teams finished in the top ten at today's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships. The senior women's team placed eighth, the junior men and senior women placed ninth while the junior men's team placed tenth.
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Jim Finlayson of Victoria, BC will attempt to take down the Canadian master’s (40-plus) age-group record for the half-marathon, Sunday March 23rd at the Comox Valley Half Marathon in Courtney, BC. The current record is held by Kingston, Ontario’s Steve Boyd, which stands at hour and six minutes and thirty-three seconds. The race starts at 11:00 AM PST.
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Athletics Canada has sent a talented and fit contingent of athletes to the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships that take place in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday, March 24th. This is the 40th annual edition of the event that started in 1973 in Waregem, Belgium.
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Six days after Victoria's Geoff Martinson stepped off the plane in Sidney, BC, (feeling completely under the weather) to win a come-from-behind five kilometre race in 14 minutes and 32 seconds against second and third place finishers Ryan Brockerville of Vancouver and Clifford Childs of Victoria, he flew to Vancouver to pull off the trick again, at the popular St. Patrick’s Day 5k. He raced almost the same group however, this time he wasn’t feeling sick as a dog. Martinson won in 14:37.88 to Child’s 14:42.58. Third went to Nanaimo’s Forrest Simpson who finished in 14:47.65. “I was definitely feeling better this time around,” said Martinson.
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Interview with former University of Victoria Vike, Clifford Childs, who now represents the Running Room Athletic Club. Childs finished third overall at the 2013 Synergy Health Bazan Bay 5.
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Video of the Synergy Health Bazan Bazan Bay 5k. This is the fifth race of the eight event Vancouver Island Race Series.
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Post race interview with Kevin O'Connor, who smashed the BC 45-49 age-group record at the Bazan Bay 5k.
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Post race interview with Sabrina Wilkie who finished second at the Bazan Bay 5k. She is with the Point Grey Track Club of Vancouver, BC.
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Post Synergy Health Bazan Bay 5k video interview with Ryan Brockerville of Point Grey Track and Field Club. Brockerville finished ina virtual dead-heat with winner Geoff Martinson in the time of 14:32.
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Post-race interview with winner Geoff Martinson at the Synergy Health Bazan Bay 5k. Race number five of the eight meet, Vancouver Island Race Series.
See race re-cap article here.
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Nine men ran under 15 minutes in the Synergy Health Management Bazan Bay 5k in Sidney, BC on Sunday, March 10th. The overall winner was former University of Victoria Vikes star athlete, Geoff Martinson of Victoria, BC who finished in a near dead-heat with Vancouver’s Ryan Brockerville – a Simon Fraser University grad and current member of Point Grey Track and Field Club - in the time of 14:32. Third went to former University of Victoria Vike Clifford Childs in 14:40.
Calgary women hold on while Guelph men overtake lead to win indoor national titles
Derek Drouin photo by Sean Kilpatrick
Derek Drouin again established himself as a great competitor when the challenges are the toughest when everyone is striving for the gold medal.