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Juan De Fuca Marine Trail Record
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 This past weekend a group of 11 runners headed out to the China Beach to tackle the challenging 47km Juan De Fuca Marine Trail. A few of the the runners had done the trail before and had their eye on the course record of 7hr15mins set by Rumon Carter a few years back. With great weather on their side and the help of some comaraderie a group of three set off at record pace and had a great morning of running. Shawn Nelson, Jeff Hunt, and Rafael Albert ran together from China Beach to Sombrio Beach which covers most of the hilly sections of the run. The next 20km from Sombrio Beach to Botanical Beach is mostly rolling hills covered in technical root footing and lots of mud! Shawn started to put some distance between himself and his running partners along this section and held himself together really well over the last part of the run to finish in an amazing time of 6hrs15mins to chop 1hr off the previous course record! Jeff Hunt had his best ultra run to date with his time of 6hr25mins which bested his previous time of 7hr40mins set earlier in the year. Rafael also ran under the previous course record with a great run of 6hr33min.
For a full report on the run check out Jeff Hunts blog here.
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Two Frontrunners Run Club members reached their goals of completing Ironman Canada this past weekend in Penticton, B.C. Lance Hurrell and Ron Schick both crossed the finish line after almost a year of training focused on this one goal. In the process of training for Ironman both Lance and Ron were able to run personal bests in many of their running events this year and both had excellent races at Ironman with Lance finishing in 12:09:06 and Ron finishing in 12:50:03. Both have earned themselves some well deserved time off and we look forward to seeing them back out in a few weeks recovered and ready to go again!
We would like to congratulate two of our store sponsored athletes. James Richardson and Emily Solsberg who run for the Ceevacs Running Club recently qualified for the World Mountain Running Championships taking place in Sierre, Switzerland this fall. The qualifying race took place on July 19th at Mt Seymour and James placed 6th overall and Emily placed 7th overall which earned them both a spot on the national team.
Canadian 800m runner, Gary Reed, recently broke his Canadian Record at the Herculis Monaco Grand Prix. Reed's time of 1:43.68 lowered the previous mark of 1:43.93which he set 2 years ago in Italy. Gary is amongst the top of the world in the 800m event and looks to be rounding into top shape just in time for this summers Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Read more for a race video and race results.
