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Hello
Everyone,
September
1, 2005
In
this Issue:
- Alicia's Run
- Weekend Results - Parry Sound, Haliburton and Pentiction
- Vienna Austria to Budapest Hungary - Sheila Bikes the Orient
Express
- Team Diabetes Members Run in Iceland
- Upcoming Events - Sudbury
Masters "Ramsey Tour"
- Volunteers Needed for the Ramsey Tour
- Running
Room Run Club Update
- Track North News - by Dick Moss
- Ytri News - by Mike Coughlin -
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Alicia's "5" Kaye Trail
Run
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Over 100 people came out
to Fielding Memorial Park this Sunday to celebrate Alicia Kaye's
quest to the World Championships in Japan. There were supporters,
donours, lots of volunteers and 90 event participants. The runners
were treated to a brand new course on the newly opened Kelley
Lake Trail - a part of the Trans Canada Trail system. Mike Hay
(18:04) was the overall winner and Amanda Kosmerly (22:45) the
overall female winner. But most people chose to run and walk
at more leisurely paces to enjoy the scenery - and to also watch
their footing as their was a bit of a technical section (about
1km) where one had to be extra careful.
Congratulations and thank you to all who
sponsored, helped, donated time and or money and to the 90 finishers
who took part in Alicia's Run. Your participation has assisted
Alicia in getting to the Worlds. Over $3,000 was raised through
donations and run registrations.
Click
Here for Results
Click
here for Photos
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Weekend Results
Parry Sound Sprint
Triathlon - August 27, 2005
Steve Fessenden (Chelmsford) led 4 other locals
in this event that preceded the 1/2 Ironman on Sunday.
Click
Here for Results
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Parry Sound 1/2 Ironman Triathlon
- August 28, 2005
Drew Anderson, Laura Thaxter and Becky
Olacke took on the very difficult 1/2 Ironman distance on a tough
course. This was their first exposure at this distance and they
performed admirably.
Click
Here for Results
Laura relates her 1/2 Ironman experience:
Hello Vince and fellow rocks!!!,
Let me start by saying that when
I decided to do the half iron distance, I realized that I was
going to push my body to a physical extreme. I knew that physically
I was ready for this, but I had no idea that it was going to be
so hard mentally. Hard enough that it took every fiber in my body
not to get a DNF.
So, saturday night, Drew and I
camped at a nice little campsite, maybe five minutes away from
the start of the race. It seemed to be going good until around
5:30 pm, when it started raining. It would not let up and I was
worried that we would be getting up in the morning in that and
even racing in it. Thankfully when we woke up at 5:45am, though
pitch black, it was not raining. Eventually we sauntered over
to the start, got our things ready in transition and made our
way into the water. Now, as I was led to believe, it was going
to start in a wave of men and then women. But no. It was a mass
start. So imagine, when the gun went off 162 people trying to
get in the lead. Of course, I'm sure I was not the only one, but
seconds after the gun went off I got kicked in the nose. Kicked
hard. I actually stopped to see if there was any blood. Great
way to start the race. I slowing started swimming, just to let
some of the group disperse, until I was actually able to get going.
It was a good swim (besides getting kicked). The course turned
out to be a double loop, because some of the buoys floated away
in the storm the night before.
Then there was the bike. Ah, the
bike. I was so worried about the bike. I have never done the distance,
the furthest I have gone was maybe 60km, and 90% of that ride,
I was drafting off of Drew. I knew it was going to be hard. Unfortunately
unforeseen circumstances with my bike made it that much harder.
The very first hill, within 500 meters of the start, was a long
hill. I went to drop into my easy gear, but nothing happened.
It just started clicking, and I started panicking. Half way up
the hill I jump off my bike, played around with the chain a bit,
and came to realize that I had no idea what I was doing, but I
knew I lost my easy gear. For the whole 90 km, on the hilliest
course in the world, I had no easy gear. The first 45km was me
thinking what the heck was I thinking when I signed up for this?
What were Becky and Drew thinking when they agreed to do this
with me? I had no pleasant thoughts. After the turn around, the
wind was absolutely brutal and at around 65km we were coming out
of a town called McKellar. It was at this point where I thought
I couldn't go on. Even if I did manage to finish the bike there
was no way I would be able to run 21km with my legs feeling like
this. Even on the straight stretches I could not get above 24km/hr.
Then I turned a corner and saw this huge hill. I had to look up
to see the top, and that was it. I started to cry. Everything
in my body just wanted to quit, but I was so mad that this race
was making me feel like this, I closed my eyes took a deep breath,
shouted a few choice words and then slowly made my way up the
hill. The rest of the bike was painful, both physically and mentally,
but eventually I made it to the dismount area. And yes, even here
I had problems. I dismounted fine, until I put my full weight
on my legs, where I kinda collapsed with my bike falling on top
of me. Some of the volunteers kindly laughed at me, none of which
came to help. The announcer nicely mentioned to all the spectators,
that after a 90km bike, sometimes you don't realize what your
legs are really like and that I wasn't the first to do that. (Thank
god)
Now the run. I'm a runner I can
do this. The first 2.5km was on hard packed gravel along the waterfront.
Beautiful scenery. Nice slow run. Then we get onto the road. No
longer do I have faith that I can do this. Hills. I mean Kingsmount
hills. Four of them. Up one, down another, up again, so forth
and so on. And this is a double loop. This hills I go down, I
have to go up on the way back, and then do it all over again.
So all in all I climbed at least 16 hills. I walked, I ran, I
cursed. I finally finished. 6 hours and 36 minutes later. I hate
this, I am never doing this again. Well maybe. Just not Parry
Sound. Peterborough, next year. Becky?, Drew?
It was an amazing experience. Becky came in first in 19 and under
females. Congratulations. Drew placed second in his age group
with an amazing time of 5 hours and 50 minutes. Congrats, I am
so proud of you. You gave me the willpower to continue on, every
time I saw you during the run, I knew I had it in me to finish.
Thank you to Vince as well, I knew if I quit I would have to explain
to you why, and there is no excuse in the world to give up when
you are physically capable of finishing. I feel great. At least
I will when some of the feeling comes back to my legs.
Laura Thaxter
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Kash End of Summer Dash - August
28, 2005
Ken Stubbings, our Cobourg Rock!!, made his annual trek to Haliburton
to compete in the Kash 10k. His time - a quick 37:45 on a hilly
course. Click
here for Results.
Ken writes:
Hello everyone,
Lynn and I made the trip to Haliburton again August 27 for the
Kash End of Summer Dash. For me, next to Massey this is an excellent
show. After the run there is a full spread BBQ and beach area
to use. The 10k course is a tough one. The first 6k are fairly
flat. The last 4k is a killer with climbing a 1km hill and having
to tackle continuous rolling hills. The day had a good north breeze
to help with the high temperature. I managed a PB for this course
of 37:45, earning me 1st place for the old guys. The Running Room
was kind enough to donate $20 certificate. I wore my new no name
non-nonconforming shoes I won at Massey. They are not too bad.
Lynn says they are as ugly as hell.
The Kash Dash run is part of the Peterborough Road Runners Lakeland
Race Series. A runner earns points for attending a run, placing
in a run, and volunteering. Lynn decided to volunteer. She figured
she could earn the same number of points for volunteering as running,
so why pay the fee and bust a gut. Smart Girl!! (Must be the Perdue
in her.)
Terry Fox Run and Rice Lake Relay is next. Then Prince Edward
County Marathon 1/2 Marathon, and then off to the Big Apple with
you guys.
Train Smart everyone,
Ken Stubbings |
2005 SUBARU IRONMAN
CANADA TRIATHLON - August 28, 2005
Local Tri athletes, Kyle Guembel
and Kerry Abols traveled to Penticton for the Ironman Canada Triathlon.
Kyle competes as a Pro and came a very respectable 13th overall.
Kerry Abols almost broke under the 10 hr range with a 57th placing
overall and third in his age group. Click
Here for Results |
Team Diabetes Members Run in
Iceland
By Amanda Luoma
Congratulations to all the Team Diabetes members
who took part in the
Iceland Marathon on Saturday, August 20!
They were:
Joe Luoma - full marathon - 4:09:04
Mary Hartle - half marathon - 1:46:04
Kerry Schubert - half marathon 2:07:07
Karen Oman - half marathon - 2:19:44
Jennifer Constant - 10 km run - 1:23:18
GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!! Now, for
a "brief" glimpse of our journey....
The trip to Iceland was AMAZING!!
Only 2 of my travellers had me panicked at the
Toronto airport - they
showed up though.... at final boarding call =)
Upon arrival at 6 am local time (2 am our time)
we were shepherded into
tour busses and headed off through lava fields to the Blue Lagoon
spa. When
we arrived in Iceland it was raining and cold, but by the time
we had left
the airport it was sunny and getting warmer - the weather changes
like
nothing I have ever seen....
Along the way to the Blue Lagoon, we stopped at
geothermal steam pits -
where we were told to 'stay on the path, the crust is thin and
people have
fallen through and boiled their legs'. I figured once I had
seen one steam
pit I had seen them all and there was no need to venture up
the path at all
=). We also stopped at a lighthouse where we had a great view
of the ocean
(obviously) and were told 'the black birds are sometimes aggressive'
- but
not compared to the steam pits.... We drove by the location
of the Clint
Eastwood movie being shot about the 2nd world war - it was guarded
by
security that looked only slightly less dangerous than the steam
and
birds.... We also happened upon a herd of Icelandic horses -
they are more
sturdy and furrier looking than horses here. Our tour guide
told us that
the horses are her favourite meal.... The landscape is something
- some of
it looked like INCO had recently mined there, leaving a barren,
treeless
area and it smelled of sulfur too. Felt a lot like home....
minus the
construction!
The Blue Lagoon is a lovely geothermal pool that
was wonderful after such a
long plane and bus ride. The water was a beautiful ice blue
- Joe now
thinks a sauna is not enough and wants to somehow make a Lagoon
in our back
yard. I wished him luck! The lagoon featured 'hot spots' and
if they were
too hot for you, you just had to swish your legs around to stir
up the
water. Our guide told us that the old Blue Lagoon was dangerous
but they
had 'rebuilt it' - at this point I figured that since we had
survived the
birds, steam pits, and other local hazards that we would most
likely come
out of the Lagoon unscathed... I was too tired to really care
either way =)
When we got to our hotels in the afternoon some
had a nap and then got
ready for the Welcome Reception at the Loftleider Hotel. It
was quite nice
and great to see everyone from our area (the tour busses were
divided by
hotels). I have to tell you that Karen Oman has the best behaved
children I
have ever met! They are 2 and 4 and now have lovely flowered
rubber boots
purchased in Iceland =)
Friday was a day that the participants had mostly
to themselves - tours
were happening and we all met back at the hotel Loftleider for
the Prerace
dinner - lots of carbs and chick pea lasagna - not too many
smiling faces
over this, let me tell you!
Saturday morning - RACE DAY!! - we had to be at
the group photo for 8 am -
this felt SOOOOO early!! We had a rousing rendition of O Canada
- it was
very moving - and then we all headed over to send off the Charity
Start
group.
The full marathon started at 10 am and then I headed over to
the 11 km
marker right in front of the Viking Ship - that was cool! It
was wonderful
to see so many family members come to Iceland to cheer on their
loved ones
- everyone in Canada gear and the Icelanders also started cheering
for the
Team Diabetes people - the other racers really appreciated our
encouragement too. It was a great feeling of comradery. If it
rained once
during the marathon it rained 10 times - now, for a runner this
is fine...
but for spectators standing along the ocean with wind whipping
them, it was
really cold!
I moved to the start/finish around 1:30 to see
my husband come over the
line (my camcorder died and I only have still shots of this)
as well as the
majority of the people from NE and the girls from my hotel.
Everyone
finished really strong - some with great aches and pains but
with HUGE
smiles none the less. The human body is capable of great accomplishments
when there is a crowd gathered. Many of the local residents
called out
"Kanata, Kanata!!" whenever they saw one of our jerseys
come around the
corner - there were lots of tears too.
After the race the group had some more free time
- Cultural Night was
getting started - and then it was off to the Victory Dinner
at Kaffi
Reykjavik (this restaurant had an ice bar, but it had to be
closed because
there were too many people and the walls were starting to melt).
The dinner was great - my husband and quite a number of the
men present
were VERY happy that the carb loading had come to an end and
that beef was
served. During the dinner we saw a Presentation of all the photos
from race
day - they were set to Chariots of Fire and other 'running'
music. It was
really great and touching to see everyone up on the big screen.
Okay, so that wasn't brief at all.... It was truly
a great experience and I
am glad to have witnessed it from all sides - staff, spectator
and
participant (through Joe).
AMSTERDAM - HERE WE COME!!
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September 11 - Sudbury
Masters Ramsey Tour 5k and 21.1k 
NOTE:"
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE TOUR"
Please contact
Jesse Winters if you are able to assist (705-688-7738)
Visit our Events
Section for all the Details
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Run
Club Update - by Donna Smrek & Lise Edwards |
The
Running Room Club Update: August 30, 2005
Sudbury Store (Cedar Pointe Plaza)
Well what a great success the Alicia "5"
Kaye was this past weekend. Thank you very much to all of
our sponsors, participants and volunteers who came out to
support our cause. Alicia and her family were touched by
the community support. Alicia received cards and donations
and we are happy to announce that we were able to raise
$3,200. to help get Alicia to Worlds in Japan. Thank you
again for your generosity.
We would also like to thank Vince Perdue and the Sudbury
Rocks for their time and contribution to the event. Without
your help our event would have not been the same. The walkers
and the runners of Sudbury appreciate your work Vince...
thanks again.
Store Update:
Yes it's true... the new Run/Walk Running Room watches
have arrived and are ready to get you through your next
training session. They come in three colours for the women,
black, grey and sky blue and black/grey for the men. The
price for the watch is $49.99.
Sorry to announce we will be closed Monday September 5th
for Labour Day weekend... We will be open for celebrations
of the first day of school on Tuesday September 6, 2005.
Now for our weekly schedule...
LTR/FWO - 8:1 x 2 sets followed by 2 minutes running
5k - 10:1 x 2 sets
10k - Hills (3 repeats)
1/2 Marathon to Ramsey - 4k steady
1/2 Marathon to Niagara - Hills (8 repeats)
Marathon to Niagara - 10k fartlek
1/2 Marathon Walking - Hills (6 repeats)
Walking 5k- 25 minutes continuous
Sunday September 4, 2005:
LTR/FWO - 10:1 x 2 sets
5k - 10:1 x 2 sets
10k - 10k 10:1
1/2 Marathon to Ramsey - 6k easy run
1/2 Marathon to Niagara - 12k 10:1
Marathon - 29k 10:1
1/2 Marathon Walkers - 14k long slow distance
5k Walkers - 45 minutes continuous
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Track
North News - by Dick
Moss |
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YTri
News - by Mike Coughlin
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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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