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The Camrose Running Club is hosting a Learn to Run and Learn to Run 10 km run program starting Sept. 6. Classes will run every Monday for 10 weeks. The graduation run will be the Jingle Bell Run Nov. 20. Registration is on the running club website.

To say I was excited about how the race went on Sunday would be a huge understatement.   I wanted to start off at a 3:40 per km pace and see how long I could hold it, not really expecting to be able to do it for the whole race.  I ran pretty even, about 1:16:30 through half and I guess that leaves 1:16:47 for the second half.  The whole day really fell into place perfectly for me.  The weather turned out to be ideal, the course was nice and flat, and there was always somebody to run with, chase, or run from.
I ran with David Corbett for the first 11km, chased Mike Booth for the next 25km, and then ran from him for the last 6km or so.  The last 4km were a real struggle for me.  It was everything I could do just to keep my legs moving.  They felt so heavy.  I didn't really look at my watch for the last few kilometres, just kept moving my legs as fast as I could.  I wasn't sure what my time would be until I could read the clock at the finish line.  It surprised me when I read 2:33. 
I thought I had a small PB in me, but I really didn't think that I would be able to shave two minutes off.  Thanks to everyone who told me I could, but I honestly didn't believe you.  That looked great when they posted the first sheet of marathon results with the top seven and three of them read Camrose.
Oh, and I guess I made $508.86 an hour for the run, but if you factor in training hours I figure it works out to somewhere around 43 cents an hour, so I guess I better not quit my day job just yet.

Congrats to Camrose runners at Edmonton marathon and Miquelon Lake Triathlon. A strong showing at both events. Also thanks to the folks who didn't run and volunteered at the Miquelon Lake triathlon. The money earned from this event goes to running club events, including buying t-shirts for the Ole's Spring Run Off.

way to go Brendan!!  how much money did you win?

Big Congrats to Brendan! 

2:33 is an incredible time, and how even and perfectly executed that run was. I heard you knocked a lady out as you were finishing, Brendan?

There were quite a few Camrose runners in the races. I had just under 2:45, Ian 2:48 and Jason Ernst 3:21.
On the half, Brian Hamblin 1:46, Alvin 1:51 and there were a few more too. Results are on http://raceheadquarters.com/results/run_2010.htm#aug

Great race Evan...amazing time!!
I had a lot of fun on my version of the Calgary 70.3 as well. 
We camped at Ghost Lake (on a hill) the night before but we didn't know that there was going to be a Thunderstorm that night and water running under the tent!! Next year it'll be in a hotel the whole way.  Got a few hours sleep and woke at 4:30am to get ready for the swim.  My wave was about a half hour after Evan's with around 250 swimmers.   The water was pretty cold so it was easy to wake up.   My swim was awesome and I stayed away from the front runners so I wouldn't get beatup in the freeforall start.   My time was 45 min as predicted. 

I'm not sure what happened but I followed up the swim with one of the slowest transitions (ripped bag, etc) on wet and muddy ground.  My bike was great but not the 3 hours (3:15 28.6km/hr) I had planned since I spent a lot of time in 1st gear climbing during the first 30km.  There were a lot of hills but not a lot of wind which was good.

My run was slow for the first 4km on weak legs and got better until the turnaround when I started cramping as well.  The last 8-9 km were tough with having to stop to stretch.   I found out I don't like people passing me...I eventually got it done however. 

I looks like I have a goal for next year now....to improve on everything to get in under 6 hrs!!  It was a great race and volunteers were fantastic and look forward to my next one.

Ya fun weekend.  For me after a tough physical (literally) swim which cost me about 4 mins , the bike was great for me on a hilly course (35 km/hr avg.)..... the run was going good until the turn around , and I was on pace for a sub 1:30 1/2, and my quads started to crater, dehydration i'm guessing, it was a extremely painful last 8km and the only thing that kept me from quitting was knowing my family was at the finish line waiting, my goal was to finish sub 5 hrs, and i was on pace for that until the cramping, total time 5:15.  But I finished my first half ironman, and I guess I can take something from that.


nice job by everyone else!

Nice job by a bunch of Camrose runners this weekend.  Stuart with a great finish at the Death Race, the 28th soloist overall.  Can't wait to hear all about it.
Great job also to Robert in his leg at the Death Race.
Nice work by Wade and Evan in the Calgary 70.3 triathlon.
Great job guys.

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Where do you work Evan?