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Hello
Everyone, September
2, 2004
In this Issue:
- Bentley and Evans Take Subaru IronMan Canada Championships
+ Locals Do AWESOME!
- Ontario Honda Series Triathlon Results from Parry Sound
- Final Nepawhin Swim - by Bob Jeffery
- The 28th Annual Ramsey Tour Runs on Saturday, September 11
- NEW RUN - FiTFRiENDS 8 Km Trail
Run/Walk for Team Diabetes - Sunday September 26
- Running
Room Clinics - Register Now!
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Bentley and Evans
Take Subaru IronMan Canada Championships
+ Locals
Do AWESOME!
Bentley and Evans
take Subaru Ironman Canada Championships
By: Helen Manning August 30, 2004
PENTICTON, B.C- Lisa Bentley ran
down her competition to repeat as the women’s winner at
Subaru Ironman Canada today in Penticton, B.C. while local triathlete
Tom Evans won
his first Ironman title taking first place for the men.
Bentley
, who has six previous Ironman victories to her credit, is a
35-year-old professional triathlete from Caledon, Ontario. In
10th place after the swim, Bentley
headed onto the run course in third place and ran down the leader
out of the water, Joanna Zeiger
(Bolder, Colo.) and former Ironman Canada champion Gillian
Bakker (Winfield, B.C.). Bentley commented at
post race interviews “"It was a really tough day
... I know I was the favorite, but it doesn't get any easier,"
she said. "You never know until the finishing stretch that
you're going to win."
Tom Evans,
a resident of Penticton, B.C., led out of the water and despite
the best efforts of Gordo Bryn
(Boulder, Colo) and
Olaf Sabatschus (Cologne, Germany) to chase
him down through the bike and run courses, held them off to
win his first Ironman. Greeted by enthusiastic home town crowds,
Evans, a 36-year-old
dentist said after the race” The support on the course
fwas great, it really helped to keep me going”.
Top five men:
Tom Evans, Penticton, B.C. 8:28:06
Gordo Byrn, Boulder, Colo. 8:29.55
Olaf Sabatschus, Cologne, Germany 8:33.55
Jasper Blake, Victoria, B.C. 8:46.55
Matt Seeley, Polson, Montana 8:53.24
Top five women
Lisa Bentley, Caledon, Ont. 9:16:02
Joanna Zeiger, Boulder, Colo. 9:28.57
Gillian Bakker, Winfield, B.C. 9:36:26
Sara Gross, Stirling, B.C. 9:54:27
Pamela Ens, Sidney, B.C. 9:58.56
Locals
Do Awesome
Our Pro, Kyle Guembel,
led the way for the locals turning a 9:45:15 and a strong 38th
out of 2000+ participants. Kerry Abols followed
next in 10:07:03 and 72nd place. This was Rocks!! member, Steve
Matusch's, first foray into this discipline and he
turned a solid 11:57:41 and 687th overall. Amanda Kosmerly's
sister, Hayley Boucher, turned 14:21:27 and
1665th while David Busch, YTri member,
had the longest run of his life turning 14:34:05 and
1677th overall.
Congratulations
to All of you IRONMEN!
Click
Here for All the Results
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The Parry Sound Half Iron Distance
Triathlon and Duathlon
Saturday, August 28, 2004 - Sunday,
August 29, 2004
Waubano Beach Park
Parry Sound, Ontario
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A number of area participants were in Parry Sound this weekend
for the Sprint Tri, Du and Half Iron Distance Tri and Du. Check
out their names and
All the Results Here.
"Hutch", a competitor
from Markham provides insight on the course:
Ok so this race was called an "Iron
Distance" race, I guess b/c of copyright issues. Let me tell
you the run portion of this half was extremely hilly! The swim
and bike courses were fantastic, cool, clean water, very little
wave activity, maybe even a slight current coming back to shore.
TZ was close to shore, however it did get very shallow about 50
yards off shore which meant a lot of dolphin diving before it
was shallow enough to run without killing your heart rate. Bike
course was basically "rolling hills", and a lot of them.
But all those downhills made up for the uphills, with a slight
tailwind on the way back. The first and last 7km were on a fairly
rough road, lots of steep but short hills, sketchy pavement and
even some gravel that had to be bypassed on a sidewalk for about
50 yards. But the majority of the bike (about 75km) was on Hwy
124 and it was fantastic. Run course - now if I would have known
there would be this many BIG hills I would have done a lot more
hill work. Two loops of 10.25 km, first 3km on flat packed-gravel
trail, beautiful, then 5km of some of the deadliest hills I've
run. I don't know what was worse, the uphills (heart and lungs)
or the downhills (quads and feet). Reaching the turn-around it
felt a bit daunting knowing that you had to run all those hills,
again. But it was nice to finish the race on 3 km of flats. This
race was well organized and fairly small, about 180 competitors.
It also rained for the entire race, 5+ hours of steady downpour.
Air temp was good so it ended up being a fine day. Outside of
the run I was happy with my splits: Swim 2000m- 30 min, Bike 90km
- 2:44, Run 21km - 1:58 (I normally run the half-mary in 1:40-1:45,
thanks hills!) So total 5:18, my race goal was 5:20, secret race
goal was 5:15, which I definitely would have hit if hadn't been
for those hills. Good race and I would do it again. If you like
challenging courses than the Parry Sound Half is for you.
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Final Nepawhin Swim
- by Bob Jeffery
Just a note on the upcoming final lake swim at
Nepawhin. Some of us have still been swimming and we are planning
to show up on Monday, Sept 6 at 10:00 am on the Paris side of
Nepawhin. We will decide on the morning if the weather and water
temperature is sufficiently warm to go across and back. Wet
suits will be welcome and may now be necessary.
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FiTFRiENDS
8 Km Trail Run/Walk
for Team Diabetes
Location: Starts
at Laurentian University track and winds through the local single
track trails
On-Site Registration
Available from 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Race Date/Time:
September 26, 2004 @ 10:00 am
Race Kit Pick-up: Running
Room Cedar Pointe Plaza September 25, 2004 from 9:30 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.
On-site Registration until
9:30 a.m. sharp
Click
Here for Registration Form
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Running Room Clinics
- Register Now!
We also host informal
"Run Club" runs
Wednesdays at 6:00
pm
Sundays at 8:30
am
All are Welcome!
Half Marathon May 25, 04 - September
7, 04 (6:30 PM) (Registration Closed)
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury, Ontario)
Marathon - June 23, 04 - October
13, 04 (6:30 PM) (Registration Closed)
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury, Ontario)
Learn to Run - July 19, 04 - September 7, 04 (Registration Closed)
Monday at 6:30 pm
Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury Ontario)
For Women Only - July 29, 04 - September 30, 04
Thursday at 6:30 pm
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury Ontario)
Walk - July 30, 04 - Oct 1, 04
Friday at 6:30 pm
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury Ontario)
10k - September 27, 04 - November 29, 04
Monday at 6:30 pm
Goal Race - Santa Shuffle
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza ( Sudbury Ontario)
10K September 25, 04 - December 4, 04 (6:30 PM)
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury, Ontario)
For Women Only September 28, 04 - December 4, 04 (6:30 PM)
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury, Ontario)
Learn to Run September 30, 04 - December 4, 04 (6:30 PM)
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury, Ontario)
Walking October 6, 04 - December 4, 04 (6:30 PM)
Sudbury: Cedar Pointe Plaza (Sudbury, Ontario)
For more information or to register, call
the Running Room at
523-4664, or visit
http://www.runningroom.com and look under clinics.
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For
information call me.
Vincent Perdue
341 Fourth Ave, Sudbury On. P3B-3R9
705-560-0424
vtperdue@cyberbeach.net
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