- Your Are Invited: Sunrunners
and their invited guests are welcome to an information and social
evening at Belles On Thirty Two, March 1, 2012 at 7:30pm. Matt
Deeter from White Rock Footcare will be discussing appropriate foot
and gait issues while Tyler Dumont from Physiomoves Physiotherapy
will be discussing structural health as it applies to endurance
athletes. Appetizers will be served.
- Annual Awards Banquet: Many
thanks to our committee, Teresa Clarke, Nancy McNabb, Lori Cotton
and Louisa Lorimer for putting on a superb evening. Highlights
were: Fred's MC comments that got better and better with each rum
and coke, the photo reflections from 2011 and the fabulous
accomplishments over the year.
Additional THANKS
to our Awards Banquet door prize sponsors:
Peninsula Cycles, Steve Nash Fitness Wold,
Ricky's Restaurant, Breezeway Cafe, Everything Wine, Belles on 32,
Pampered Chef - Trish Ellison, Starbucks Peninsula Village and
Starbucks 1730 152nd Street.
- Hill Training: For 8 Weeks starting
Thursday January 19, 2012 there will be a hill running session
offered to provide club runners with strength and endurance
training for the coming spring running season. Run starts at 6:00pm
in the Semiahmoo Mall, Zellers parking lot near to the Chevron Gas
Station.
- Annual Awards Banquet: The Annual
Awards and Banquet will be held at the Rotary Fieldhouse (in the
middle of the soccer fields complex between 20th and 24th Ave near
148th St.) on February 4. The price is $35 per person and includes
dinner, live entertainment and a bar. See Teresa Clark, Nancy
McNabb, Louisa Lorimer or Lori Cotton for tickets and further
details. Tickets can be purchased at Sat. breakfast all of
January.
- We will be entering at least one
team and hopefully two in the Barkerville Rush Relay held on May
20, 2012. There is still room for more club runners to be on a
team. Contact Paul Mathias
- Congratulations to everyone in the
club who participated in the Lower Mainland Cross Country Series
and helped us win the club challenge. It was truely a club effort
with 31 club members running in at least one of the eight races.
Additional Congrats to a number of club members who participated in
at least 5 events and finished in the top 5 for their age group in
the series. Go to our results page to see the club and individual
results summary for the series.
- Many thanks to Teresa Clark, Nancy
McNabb, Lori Cotton and Louisa Lorimer for organizing our Holiday
Breakfast and Run/Walk. The trivia was fun, the food fabulous and
the atmosphere festive. Gary was our MC host and the catcalls were
fast and furious.
- Dust off your skis and warm up you
paddles for the annual Manning Park ski week-end February 24/25.
The skis are for, well skiing while the paddles are for the
intensely contested Sat. night table tennis tournament. Contact
Greg Anslow for details on this fun week-end.
- The club Annual Awards Banquet will
be held on Feb. 4, 2012. More info to follow.
- The annual club Holiday
Run/Breakfast will be held on December 10, 2011 at the Ocean Park
Hall on 128th St. at 16th Ave. The run will start around 7:30am and
the breakfast at 9:00am. More details to follow.
- The club Annual General Meeting will
be held in the upstairs meeting room at the ABC Country Restaurant
on King George Blvd. near 156th Street. The meeting will start
around 9:30am after the Saturday morning run
- Congratulations to Gordon Flett who
won the Boundary Bay Moustache Marathon 10K on Nov.6 in a time of
42:11. Gordon has been competing all year long and achieved a
breakthrough to be the race winner overall.
- All are welcome to follow the blogs
of current club members:
Louie Maione: runninginspiration.blogspot.com
Dan Cumming: www.runninginthezone.ca
Doug and Carolyn Oram: carolyn-doug.blogspot.com
- Mark September 10/11 as the week-end
that the Sunrunners came out to race. There were a total of 16 club
members in 4 events. The highlights were age group podium finishes
for Ken Guthrie - 1st and Louie Maione - 3rd at the Fairhaven
Runners 15K, Dave Hobbs age group 1st, 13th overall and Susi Hobbs
age group 3rd at the Subaru Banff Triathlon and a fast age group
9th for Cindy Masaro at the Gran Fondo Whistler. See complete
results on our results page.
- So Long! to long time club member
Murray Fisher who is returning to friends and family in New
Brunswick after over 20 years as a club member.
- Congratulations to Ironman Allan
Clark who completed Ironman Canada on August 28, 2011. Allan
overcame considerable adversity to complete the race when another
racer clipped his front tire on the downhill section of the bike
course in OK Falls. Allan ended up with road rash to his hands,
arms, legs, hips and a few other areas. His determination to cross
the finish line was not deminished. It was an amazing effort. As
Rob Fletcher said recently: " It's time to put in 2k on the
couch!"
- A huge thanks to Louisa Lorimer and
Francis O'Grady who put in days of volunteer work to assist in
trail marking and day of race activities for the Tenderfoot Boogie
28K, 50K and 50 miles Trail Race (August 6). Louisa and Francis put
in a 12 hour shift on race day alone in addition to the previous
days of trail marking. The Tenderfoot Boogie and Frosty Mountain
Trail Race are organized by Gottfried Grosser a former Semiahmoo
Sunrunner. Anyone considering longer distance trail races should
consider one of these events!
- The July 2 Boat Ride and Mountain
Bike Ride ("Fred's Excellent Adventure" or The Great 6B Adventure:
Boat, Bike, Beer, Burger, BS, Bus) will now take place on August
20. Contact Fred Cotton if you would like to attend.
- Club memebers are invited to
participate in the Rotary Run Half Marathon, Relay and 5K.The event
is presented by Canada Tire and organized by the Rotary Club of
White Rock - Peace Arch. It will take place on September 25 at
9:00am. The Race Director is club member Dan Cumming. Please take a
look at Dan's invitation to club members. Invitation
- Stay tuned for the annual Club BBQ
on July 9
- There will be an informal July 1
Canada Day Bike Ride and BBQ. Ride distance is 144km (1 km for
every year of confederation). A shorter distance is also available,
100km. Contact Paul Mathias
- There will be a Club Bike Ride on
July 2 including a boat ride up Indian Arm, trail ride from Indian
Arm to Squamish and finale at Howe Sound Brewery. See Fred Cotton
to sign up
- Courtesy of Greg Anslow we have
various race results up to mid-May that have been age graded using
the popular age grading formula. Can you guess who is the fastest
member of the club (age graded). See Age Graded Results
- Can you identify the mysterious
Sunrunner who appeared in the Vancouver Sun on February 28, 2011?
See article/picture
- A big welcome to new club member
Gordon Flett! Gordon has already posted some impressive times as a
club member including a 3rd place finish overall at The Reach
Discovery Run 10k in a chip time of 42:09. Don't look over your
shoulder Gordon because Grag Anslow has the club doing interval and
tempo sessions. You may have some fast competition coming your
way.
- It is possible to enter the New York
City Marathon by achieving a qualifying standard. Although the
qualifying times are quite fast you can also qualify for the
marathon based on a half marathon time standard. For more
information follow the link attached. New York City Marathon
Qualifying
- There is a new qualifying standard
for the Boston Marathon. See the link to understand the new
standard and how it will be phased in over the next couple of
years. Boston Marathon Qualifying
- Thanks to Harvey Nelson who provided
the attached poem written in 1999
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