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Newsletter The London Pacers Running Club

www.londonpacers.on.ca

October2011

Vultures and Turkeys

Oh My!!

Run or volunteer at a

Pacer race this month

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London Pacers October 2011Newsletter

Executive

President Mark Faust [email protected]

Vice President Andrew Jones [email protected] 519-642-3520 (H)

Treasurer Jim Jones [email protected]

Publicity Sherry Watts [email protected] 519-858-9880

Social Sharron Poole [email protected]

Membership Gwyn Hayman [email protected] 519-433-2495 (H)

Secretary Jim Burrows [email protected] 519-474-3497 (H)

Newsletter Sherry Watts [email protected] 519-858-9880

Paula Muxlow [email protected] 519-284-0061

From your editors: Newsletter information:

The deadline for the November newsletter is October 26, 2011, 12 noon.

The Newsletter editors are Sherry Watts and Paula Muxlow. Contact either of us if you have a contribution or a sugges-tion. Email addresses and phone numbers are above.

We love contributions. Articles, comments, photos etc. It is your newsletter. Please send word files (.doc, not .docx) and photos or illustrations as .jpg files (low resolution). Please do not send articles with photos embedded or .pdf files. We cannot work with those. Items from other sources require permission to republish.

Pacer members are welcome to promote their businesses or events they are involved with. Send us the information and we will be happy to include it in the newsletter.

Please send race results or rumours of races your friends have done to Jim Burrows, our race reporter.

mailto:[email protected]




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Warm greetings to our members celebrating a birthday in October Fred Chapman*, Nick D’Ascanio, Tomas Dobransky, Mark Faust, Peter Haase*, Donna Kraft,

Richard Manuel, Sarah Manuel*, Eric Manuel, Susan Neely, Lindsay Pellow, Paul Roberts, Gail

Schmidt, Arnie Spivey, Don Steeper, Michelle Van Eenoo, Larry Van Eenoo

“entering a new age group

Pacer Discounts

Members of the London Pacers are given a discount on purchases at Runners Choice

at 207 Dundas St and at New Balance Lon-don on Fanshawe Park Road W. at Hyde

Park Rd

Pacer Clothing

We have an assortment of singlets and long-sleeved shirts available. See them at meetings or contact Sherry for more information. Singlets $25 to $28.50 Long-Sleeved shirts $35. to $40. We plan to place another order soon since we are short on some sizes so if you are waiting for women’s small or men’s large singlets let me know so we know how many to order.

Want a Pacer jacket? Here is the process. Buy a jacket that is mostly red. It can have black, grey or white trim. Take the jacket to Mister Tees Clothing Company at 70 Pacific Court, Unit 20 to get the logo applied.

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Pacer Meeting

Tuesday October 11, 2011

(Note the change in day for October only)

7:00 PM,

Grosvenor Lodge, Western Road

Our guest speaker will be Sport Psychologist Mario Faveri. Mario works with athletes at all levels and is one of the few Sport Psychologists in the country qualified to work with our Olympian and Paralympian athletes through the Canadian Sports Centre Ontario. Mario's talk is going to be in two parts: He was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer a year ago, so in Part 1 he will describe his use of some of the mental skills and strategies used by top athletes in his cancer journey. Then, in Part 2, he will talk about some recent research in Sport Psychology that will help to enhance your performance as a runner.

We will also be honouring our Masters Hall of Fame inductees, June-Marie Provost and Art

Obokata. Come out for the celebration.

Vi and Richard, Julia and June-Marie help out at the Springbank Road Races.

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London Pacers

2011 Club Championship Races

Date: Sunday, November 6, 2011

Where: Stone Cottage, Springbank Park

Registration: 8:30 – 9:00 A.M. race day only

Events: 5 km or 3-looper (approx. 13 km) Run or Race Walk

Race Start: 9:00 A.M.

Cost: $2.00 per participant

Who: Open to all but only Pacers are eligible for awards

The race takes place on the paved roads of Springbank Park. Water, washroom (Port-a-John) and parking are

available at the start/finish area. Post-race refreshments and pot-luck food items provided.

Awards for the various categories will be presented at the Banquet (see separate notice in the newsletter). All

those who participate are eligible for draw prizes (gift certificates) so come out and run or walk or volunteer!

We are looking for VOLUNTEERS in the following areas:

Photographers. You need a steady hand and a digital camera.

Route Marshalls. So you can tell people where to go.

Water Table. To keep runners hydrated.

Food Donors. Donations of soup (in a crock pot), cookies, snacks and the like are welcome.

FOR INQUIRIES OR TO VOLUNTEER, CONTACT:

Cathy Quinlan

[email protected]

(519) 660-3535

Hope to see you there!


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COURSE INFORMATION: 2K and 6K single loops around Springbank Park. Well-marked. 2K race is

entirely on grass. Terrain for the 6K varies with sections of wide, chip trail; rugged single-track sec-

tions; some grass and a few short paved sections. Parking available at start/finish area. Water sta-

tion near the halfway point in the 6K race.

HIGHLIGHTS: Awards 3 deep to age category winners; prizes for the members of the 1st place ele-

mentary & secondary school teams; *School challenge* Prize to the elemen-tary and secondary

school with the greatest overall percentage of student participation. Congratulations to last year’s

winners London Christian Elementary School and Central S.S; low $2 & $6 entry; draw prizes;

emailed certificates of participation; post-race refreshments for all runners.

For complete details go to http://www.londonpacers.on.ca/Pages/

Our_races.html

or contact Gail Schmidt [email protected] T 519.657.9936

Runners and Volunteers wanted for

The turkey trot 2k and 6k cross country races

Monday,October 10, 2011

Participation open to INDIVIDUALS of all ages, and ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE co-ed TEAMS

Main Picnic Pavilion, Springbank Park, London ON

Pacers Website

Check out the updated content on the Pacers website.

www.londonpacers.on.ca

Keep up -to-date on our Upcoming Activities, check out the NewsFlash and browse through our photos page.

Thanks to Christina for her innovations.

http://www.londonpacers.on.ca/Pages/Our_races.html

http://www.londonpacers.on.ca/Pages/Our_races.html


http://www.londonpacers.on.ca

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The 9th Running of the Vulture Bait Trail Races Yes, it’s hard to believe this is the ninth year for the VBTR. It looks like another sold out event, with runners from across Canada and the USA to make up the 300 cap. I know there are a few Pacers who do not run trails, but should you be able to volunteer for a few hours on Satur-day October 15

th, we could use your expertise.

We have 5 water stations on the 25km course, as well as some areas we would need some capable person to di-rect runners back onto the course in certain areas. Or, should you have high school kids who require some volunteer hours we could make use of them as well. But we do things a little bit different than some races, since our volunteers are rewarded with a swag bag that in-cludes sponsor swag, guest pass to the Columbia employee store, pasta buffet at finish, and eligible to all the draw prizes donated by our race sponsors. If you can help out please contact either, Jennifer Anne Meneray: [email protected] Larry Gooder: [email protected] Enthusiastically, Larry Gooder



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Pacers General Meeting Minutes

Date: Sept. 12, 2011 Meeting Start: 7:05 pm Location: Grosvenor Lodge, London, ON

Executive Present: Mark Faust, Andrew Jones, Jim Jones, Jim Burrows, Gwyn Hayman, Sherry Watts

Mark:

Club Championships probably Nov. 20, but not confirmed.

Club luncheon Nov. 20

Request to join Executive committee

Steve Ryall new FCRR RD

On line membership will be available for 2012 registration. Online charge $3 for a single, $4 for a family.

Thanks for those that put on the Pacer water stop.

Jim Jones: Bank balance approx. $6,200.

Gail Schmidt:

Turkey Trot on Oct. 10th

Turkey Trot 14 yrs. Old

Gail passed around volunteer sign up sheet.

Gail asked members to take postcards and poster to put up at community locations.

Race Reports:

Pat Connor: Raced Lehigh Marathon in Allentown, PA

Course was flooded requiring 5 re-measurements. Course became a mud trail run.

Rod Henning: “It was a good race.” Response to question, “How was Springbank?”

Andrew Jones: Introduced Wesley Korir as guest speaker.

Wesley:

Explained his childhood in poverty.

Kenya doesn’t have public education. It costs you money to attend.

Was “sponsored” by a priest that helped him through High School, i.e. his school fees.

Didn’t know he had talent during HS since he never competed.

Couldn’t afford to go to Kenyan University, but discovered that you could apply for US College scholarship.

Chose Murray State College (Kentucky) then switched to University of Louisville, in Kentucky.

Recommends that we all run for a reason / purpose.

Challenged the members to run for a cause.

With this philosophy he started Kenyan Kids’ Foundation.

Would like to run for Canada perhaps in 2013 WC or 2016 Olympics.

Meeting adjorned at 8:22 pm.

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Andrew has provided the recipes for the excellent Kenyan treats that we were served at

the last meeting.

Kenyan Recipe: Mandazis

Mandazi (also known as Maandazi or Ndao and sometimes called Mahamri or Mamri) are East African donuts. You can find these delicious donuts in large urban areas and also among the Swahili people of East Africa. Most small restaurants, called hotelis in Kenya, serve mandazi. You can also find mandazi being sold by street vendors. Usually mandazi are eaten with tea (chai) or coffee. Serve them warm for breakfast or for snack. Recipe: 1 egg, beaten 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 2 Tbsp. butter, melted 2 cups white flour 2 tsp. baking powder Bring all ingredients to room temperature before mixing them together. Mix all the ingredients together, adding more flour if necessary. The dough should be soft, but not sticky. Roll the dough on a lightly floured board until it is about 1/4 inch think. Cut into triangles and fry in hot oil. Fry until both sides are golden brown. Remove mandazi from oil and drain on paper towels or newspaper. Mandazi are best served warm. Variations: * Sprinkle some powdered sugar over the hot mandazi. * Put some white sugar into a bag, add a couple mandazi, and shake the bag to cover the mandazi with sugar. * Add about a 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, ginger, all-spice, or cardamom to the dough or a combination of these spices to total a 1/2 teaspoon. * Use a circular donut cutter to make mandazi in the shape of traditional donuts. * Substitute pineapple, orange, or lemon juice for the milk. * Add some shredded coconut to the dough. * Add ground peanuts or ground almonds to the dough.

You may substitute 1 teaspoon dry yeast for the 2 teaspoons baking powder. You will want to allow the mandazi to rise before cutting shapes and frying.

Kenyan Recipe: Chai Tea

Ingredients

1 cup water

1½ tsp tea leaves (or 1 tea bag)

1 cup milk

2 to 4 teaspoons sugar Preparation

Heat the water and tea leaves together in a 3 to 4 quart saucepan, until it boils.

Stir in the milk and sugar and cook until the boiling point of the milk.

Remove and strain the Chai into a tea jug or kettle.

Serve with bread, mandazi or Chapati.

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Terry Fox Run 2011 Lorne Duquette has done all the Terry Fox Runs. Here is his story. Took part in a 10km racewalk this Sunday morning in London -- and it brought back memories of how this started way back in 1981 when the Terry Fox run coincided with the Montreal Marathon. I had registered for the mara-thon some time prior, got a whole lot of pledges ($1000 +) from the people at work in Ingersoll, had a special Terry Fox marathon of hope T-shirt made up and off I flew to Montreal for the marathon weekend. It was the 2nd of 30 marathons, so as a rookie, I did not do well and spent some 4 and a half hours on the streets of Montreal. But the T-shirt lived on and for all of the 30 Terry Fox runs that followed, the specialty T-shirt was worn in London Ontario, in Cimpina Romania, in Thunder Bay Ontario, and in Stanley Park British Columbia. Today after the event, the run organizer asked if he could have that T-shirt for the Terry Fox archives and collection, and I told him sure, he can have it after I'm done with it -- in about another 20 years :-)) The event this morning were on an out and back course starting at Springbank Gardens park where the annual Terry Fox runs take place. There were probably over 2,000 participants in this cancer research fund raiser that Terry Fox started with his run across Canada in 1981. I feel very fortunate to have been able to take part in all 31 Terry Fox events The run was not a competitive event .. they had distances of 2.5km, 5km, 10km and participants ran, jogged, walked, strolled, biked, roller-bladed, etc. I choose the 10km .. did not bring a watch, but estimate that I was out there racewalking for almost one and a half hours and at the end was rewarded with a small lunch that volunteers were serving. A T-shirt was not part of the deal -- they were available for sale and I resisted buying yet another one. And we have results .. over $60,000 was raised for cancer research. It was a great morning at the park :-))) And now ..a photo of the Terry Fox collection on the wall of my den. Cheers Lorne

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2011 Syracuse Ironman 70.3 Triathlon Race Report Sept. 18, 2011

The Ironman 70.3 Triathlon Series is the official title for the half Ironman races hosted by the World Triathlon Corpo-ration (WTC). The races are held all over the world and in mid September, and they host the championships (in Las Vegas) where the top athletes from each of the series races compete for the in 5 year age groups. The main reason for doing the Syracuse 70.3 race was to get one of the qualifying spots for the 2012 Championships.

I travelled to the race with Steve Whitmore, who I’ve been training with for almost 10 years. Steve and I were both hoping to get a spot for the Worlds, but unfortunately there were only 2 spots in our category, so we knew that was going to make it tough.

After a short 5 hour sleep at our hotel the night before the race, we arrived at the race site at 5:45 am, which gave us slightly more than 1 hour to get ready for our 7:10 swim wave start. It was still dark, and cold (about 45F de-grees), but it was calm and looked to be a sunny day.

After getting my area set up in transition, I headed to the water. The water felt warm at 62F, but only because the air was so cool. This would be my coldest triathlon ever, and I felt nervous about what I should be wearing on the bike. Wearing my wetsuit for the swim meant the cool water should be a non-issue. And as hoped my swim was quite good, at least for me. My plan was to take about 32 minutes for the 2,000m and I finished it in 31:53.

The first transition was a bit slow for me, but that was because I decided to do a few things differently, like put my cycling shoes on before I got on my bike and putting on some arm warmers, which on my wet arms didn’t roll on very easily.

Steve had been biking really strong this year, matching me in most of our training rides. But I was still hoping that at some point I would catch him on the 90k bike course. The plan was to find out from Steve, how many M50’s were ahead of us, when I caught up to him. If things went to plan, I probably would catch him between 1/3 and ½ way into the bike course. Three quarters of the way into the bike I still hadn’t caught Steve, so I figured he was having a great cycle (nice) and I was a little bit off (not so nice). The Syracuse bike course is damn tough. The uphills were so significant in the first 10 miles that I could only average 26.1 kph. Considering I was planning on an average 34-35 kph, for the course, this was a bit depressing. I only passed a handful of riders (which is highly unusual, but then we were the 2

nd wave after the Pro’s so it made some sense as there weren’t really that many riders ahead of me),

but no Steve. By 45 miles I was ready to finish the bike portion, ‘cause my butt was killing me. (Note to self: tweak cockpit set up.) I got into T2 and noticed that 99% of the bikes were missing. That was a sign that I probably was doing alright. But then starting in an early wave meant that I had a big head start on most of the fastest athletes.

As I entered T2, I realized I’d have to catch Steve on the half marathon run course. T2 seemed nice and quick com-pared to T1. Leaving the transition area on the run, the course has a slight uphill grade which only helped to accen-tuate how slow I was running. I was starting to get into my stride, when just before 1 mile my left calf cramped. I worried this was the end of my day so I stopped and tried stretching it. That really didn’t help, so I walked for about 15-20s and then started to gingerly run. I was hoping a less aggressive pace (I probably wasn’t even running 7:30 before the cramp!) might be manageable, because I couldn’t DNF. At 1 mile I checked my split… 8:19! And that didn’t include my stopped time. Yikes, Steve was hoping for a 8:00-8:05 pace, so at this rate, I knew I would not catch him. I made it another ½ mile and it cramped again. I walked for a 5-10s and then started a shuffle running style. Mile 2 pace – 7:48… better but not great. By the way, all of this was uphill, so while it was slow, at least eve-ryone was slow. I quickly realized the uphills were hard/sore on the calf and the downhills weren’t too bad. So I could pick up my pace 50% of the time. But even the faster downhills were slow by my standards and I think my fastest km was only 4:23. The run course had almost no flat sections. Everything was either up or down. And there was a monster hill that was almost exactly like the swayback hill (Southdale Road west of Byron), at least for the angles, but it was about 50% longer. At least it flattened out at the top, but we had to do it twice!

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My calf stayed tight but didn’t cramp for the rest of the run, but I was careful not to stretch out my stride and I really never felt good (body or mind) until I was approaching the finish line. I had screwed up my watch and missed about a mile of run time. So I wasn’t sure of my finishing time until I saw the finish line clock. At that point I noticed that a sub 4:50 (showing on the clock) which I figured was probably too fast for Steve and quite possibly fast enough to win our age. Then I heard the announcer say, “Here comes Jim Burrows from Ontario, our first M50 athlete.” I im-mediately felt much better.

Somehow I had passed Steve without knowing it. I never clued in to the fact that I couldn’t catch Steve, because I had passed him in T1. Steve’s T1 was really slow and neither of us had thought that I would pass him there. Be-cause the air was cold, Steve didn’t want to wear his tri top under his wetsuit, thinking a wet top would chill him on the bike. We both planned on arm-warmers and cotton gloves and those were tricky enough to get on. But the top probably added another minute to his time. He also put on a nylon vest. While that didn’t take too long to get on, it certainly wasn’t very aero on the bike, especially when he had to sit up to get it off midway on the bike and then find a place to store it until T2. The net result was the 1 minute lead Steve had on me out of the water was lost as he took 1:18 longer in T1 than I did. Steve had been wondering throughout the race where I was and had believed that I had a mechanical or a flat and that was the reason I hadn’t caught up to him.

In the end, I was lucky my calf held out. So while I was discouraged for much of the race (from half way on the bike to the finish), I felt relief and elation at the finish.

Here are our splits.

Official results: http://ironmansyracuse.com/results/

I can’t complain since I was still able to win my category by 10 min. Having said that, I’d like to think that I could’ve done the run at least 4-5 min faster if the calf wasn’t acting up. While it’s easy to say that now, I’m not sure I had the energy left to actually run that fast and maybe my HR data will confirm one way or the other. (Post race analysis suggested I didn’t have a lot more to give. I could’ve run about 1 min faster if I hadn’t stopped and walked and I probably could’ve cut my time by another 1 min. or so if I had felt really motivated, but my AHR suggested that I didn’t leave much on the course, probably because I pushed the bike a bit too hard.)

Jim Km Split AG Rnk Pace / Speed Avg HR

Swim 2 0:31:53 3 0:01:36 per 100m 146.4

T1 0:03:15 155.9

Bike 90 2:34:21 1 34.99 Kph 147.0

T2 0:01:57 145.0

Run 21.1 1:37:52 2 0:04:38 per km 147.8

Total 4:49:18 1 147.3

Steve Km Split AG Rnk Pace / Speed

Swim 2 0:30:49 1 0:01:32 per 100m

T1 0:04:37

Bike 90 2:47:09 5 32.31 Kph

T2 0:01:56

Run 21.1 1:46:09 9 0:05:02 per km

Total 5:10:40 5

http://ironmansyracuse.com/results/

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Steve had a nice race too, coming out of the water first and off the bike in 3rd

. (His pre-race goals were to be 1st and

3rd

at those points.) Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to do much running because of an Achilles injury, so he slipped a bit in the standings and finished 5

th. The first 5 guys in our age group wanted spots to the worlds, and only

#1 and #2 got them.

Reviewing my race now, I can say it was a good race for me, well at least the swim and bike portions. I’ll be doing the World 70.3 Championships next September, hopefully with Steve who’s probably going to do the 2012 edition of the Syracuse 70.3 which is being moved up to June next year.

One last item, I highly recommend if you race outside of Canada to wear a singlet, uniform or whatever with Canada on it. It’s amazing how many people notice and cheer you on because of it. In this race I wore my Triathlon Canada tri-suit. This prompted lots of spectators call out “Go Canada!” as I passed by. One volunteer even told me that she loves Canada and used to live in Toronto. But the best part was when I passed this one spectator and he started singing “Oh Canada…” I found it highly motivating, and I suggest you consider wearing your London Pacer singlet or something patriotic the next time you’re competing out of the country.

Jim Burrows

Steve and Jim n Syracuse

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Going On About it…..

September has come and gone and it is hard to believe we are hearing the crackling sounds of fallen leaves on the paths in London. Fall is usually a great time to run or walk the trails, roads or bike paths due to the cooler weather, crisp mornings and the brilliant colours surrounding us.

First off, a special thank you to Andrew who arranged the LA Marathon champion, Wesley Korir at our September kick-off meeting. What a fantastic story Wesley had to tell us. Thank you to all who donated money for Wesley’s foundation that provides education to children in Kenya who normally would not have an opportunity to even attend grade school. The Pacers raised enough money to support one child, so congratulate each other for your generos-ity.

Some of the executive will be moving on after their dedicated service. Other executives have indicated they wish to stay on, but move to a different position. November is our traditional “election” month. I urge you to consider taking on a role of leadership within YOUR club. Please contact me at [email protected] or call me at 519-691-0474 and I will fill you in on the dynamic roles available. The London Pacers are strong because of the people who not only support and belong, but jump up and lead.

The registration for the 2012 Boston Marathon has come and gone and at my last count 65 London people will be going (does not include all the people from surrounding cities and towns). The process was much improved over last year’s debacle. I hope all who wanted to go, got in. I feel very fortunate to be one of the runners accepted.

There are many of you running, walking and racing this fall, so a hearty hope for best of times to everyone. Octo-ber and November tend to be very busy months for events before we settle into the slower winter months, so enjoy the ride.

There are lots of things happening in the next few weeks within your club:

Turkey Trot – Thanksgiving Monday: Gail will again be directing her band of cross country runners through the woods of beautiful Springbank Park. Please volunteer or participate.

Vulture Bait – Saturday October 15th

: Jennifer- Anne and Larry Gooder will again be representing the Pacers as host club for this 25 or 50km trail run through Fanshawe Park, so again plan to get involved

London Pacer Club Championships- Sunday November 6th

: Cathy Quinlan has taken on directing your club championships. Thanks so much for doing this Cathy as it is an important finish to the year for our club.

Club Luncheon – Sunday November 20th

: Sharron has booked the Westhaven golf club for our annual celebra-tion which we all look forward to. This is always an excellent way to celebrate all that we do.

I want to also congratulate and thank Jamie Harris for making me remember the pain of Pike’s Peak in the last newsletter. Although I did not experience the pain Jamie felt in this year’s race, I remember praying that I would make it to the summit (mile 12 to 13.1 took me 38 minutes), seeing Steve Hillman’s jumping up and down with de-light at the summit while I staggered and finally praying I would not fall on the steep decline. The feeling of exalta-tion crossing the line was unbelievable as this race was the hardest physical thing I had ever accomplished, not to mention being memorable as it was my 50

th state completion. However, fast forward to likely hardest physical feel-

ing in August 2012 after my full Ironman attempt and hopeful completion. Jamie, congratulations.


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Jamie, I also loved your quote regarding the “God’s Country” race: “There are no atheists at Mile 20”. Another memory for me from the Green Bay Wisconsin marathon where at the 20

th mile, a church had set up a “brick

wall” that you had to go through and on the other side was a scene of heaven they had created. I remembering thinking, I needed all the help possible at that point and maybe it helped me finish strongly.

Hope you all have a great month and enjoy the colours.

Until next month…

Mark

Jamie and Maeve

at Springbank

Nancy, Peter, Richard and Bob, a few of our Springbank

water table volunteers

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ALTHEO PHIDIPEDES MARATHON AWARD 2010/2011 Thanks to Jack Albin’s generous donation, the London Pacers have an award to present to a member who has run one or several special marathon(s). The award is presented at the annual dinner in November. The dates of the marathon to be considered are from November 2010 to October 2011. Please nominate candidates based on the following criteria. The award should be presented each year to a member of the Pacers who either as a runner or a walker has com-pleted a marathon of special significance during the year of the award. The award is most specifically to honour a Pacer who has dedicated him/her self to the training needed to complete a marathon. The award could be presented, for example, for the following: a Pacer who has completed their first marathon a Pacer who has completed a personal best in the marathon a Pacer who has placed in the top 5 of their age category a Pacer who has completed an outstanding number of marathons A scan through the past recipients gives you some idea of the variety of accom-plishments of the runners and walkers who have won the awards and how very special each one is. Gerry Fenwick was our first recipient. At the time he was one of only three people who had completed all of the Forest City marathons. Pat Connor had a streak of 10 consecutive Boston marathons, which is ongoing. Bella Rikely overcame tremendous difficulties to complete her first marathon in Budapest. Jim Burrows and Steve Beasley both received their awards for the quality of their races, including excellent finishes in Boston. Mark Faust had just completed running a marathon in each state and DC. Jamie Harris had com-pleted his 100th marathon that year *and is now at 138). Despite years of run-ning marathons, and several Boston appearances, Rita Melville had set a PB in 2010. The award is for an accomplishment in a specific year though sometimes it has a base from previous years. Please submit nominations to the Executive Committee by Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Send these to Mark Faust 309-693 Windermere Rd, London, N5X 2P1

[email protected]

Fall Training Program

Six week training program. Starting Tuesday October 4.

Good for cross country and speedwork training or just to inject something different into your running.

Meet Tuesdays and Thursdays 6 PM, various locations.

Complete training schedule provided.

Free for Pacers, $20. for non-members.

Contact me for more information.

Sherry Watts NCCP Level 4, RRCA, USTCA

[email protected]


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Pacer results September, 2011

Marathons Date Name Time OverAll Sex Place DIV Net Time Place / Div Place Lehigh Valley Marathon, Allentown PA 9/11/2011 226 Connor, Patrick (M) 3:42:09 181 / 16 M50-54 3:41:54

Erie Marathon at Presque Isle, Erie, PA 9/18/2011 398 Harris, Jamie (M64) 4:32:43 280 / 11 M60-64 4:32:14

Road Races

Springbank Half Marathon Sept. 11th, 2011 Place First Last Gender Age TIME 5 Mike Chapman M 34 1:16:43 8 Richard McClelland M 40 1:17:51 11 Rod Henning M 47 1:18:55 16 Tony Stokes M 47 1:23:12 17 Jim Burrows M 49 1:24:17 62 Teresa Novick F 51 1:39:02 69 Richard Bird M 57 1:40:39 97 Nick D'Ascanio M 70 1:45:38 102 Marc Roberts M 60 1:47:13 115 Chuck Edwards M 65 1:50:56 135 Steve Coad M 61 1:54:42 148 Debbie Obokata F 57 1:56:12 153 Gord Melville M 62 1:57:47 161 Roberta Reardon F 56 1:59:49 178 Kirsten Slaven F 24 2:03:43 PB! 188 Jamie Harris M 64 2:05:21 191 Maeve Armstrong-Harris F 58 2:05:49

Springbank 5k Sept. 11th, 2011 Place First Last Gender Age TIME 2 Scott Lalande M 37 16:59 20 Mark Faust M 51 20:35 36 Phillip Waller M 61 21:52 54 Lauren Burdick F 28 23:27 PB! 125 Manuel Teodoro M 83 31:45 128 Beverly Gribbons F 50 32:10

Army Run Half Marathon Ottawa, ON Sept. 18th, 2011 Name Chip Category Place Gender Place RACHEL BURDICK 1:51:26 W20-29 91/634 355/3166 JACQUIE MCWATT 2:07:12 W40-49 348/899 1234/3166 PB! PAT LEGGATT 2:10:55 W50-59 136/469 1478/3166

River Road Run 10K St Marys, ON Sept. 25, 2011 Place Name Gender Age Time Pace 1 Richard McClelland M 41 36:10 3:37/K

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Wipe Out Parkinson's Road Races, Tillsonburg, ON Sept. 25, 2011 5k Place Name Gender Age Pace 2 Gina Beer F 45 22:30 4:30/K

10k 2 Sean Cross M 41 35:58 3:36/K 12 Robert Fraser M 57 50:25 5:03/K 35 Wendy Fraser F 57 57:25 5:45/K

Oasis ZooRun 10k Run Toronto, ON Sept 24, 2011 Place Name Category Time Cat Place 193 Lauren KOLODZIEJCZAK W30-34 46:52 6/308 194 Andrew HOGG M35-39 46:53 28/142

Walking Races

5k & 10k Minds in Motion KW Walking Classic, Kitchener, ON, Sept. 25, 2011 Race Place Name Time Division Div Place 10k 19/262 Dianne Van Leeuwen 1:13:07 W70+ 1/3 5k 14/223 Bill Van Leeuwen 0:38:47 M70+ 1/1

Provincial 20k Race Walking Championships, Welland, ON, Sept. 18, 2011 Place Name Time 6 Sharon O'Leary 2:16:30 1

st F Ontario

7 Sherry Watts 2:16:30 2nd

F Ontario

Triathlons

Thousand Island Sprint Triathlon Aug. 14, 2011 750M SWIM 5KM RUN 20KM BIKE Place Name Time Category Place Time Time Time 55 Rachel BURDICK 1:25:00 F25-29 4/12 18:20 25:34 41:07

Montreal Espirit Sprint Triathlon Sept. 10, 2011 750M SWIM 20KM BIKE 5KM RUN Place Name Time Category Place Time Time Time 211 Rachel BURDICK 1:19:09 F25-29 15/47 16:40 40:32 21:58

Syracuse Ironman 70.3 Triathlon Sept. 18, 2011 Place Name Time Category Category Place 48/878 Jim BURROWS 4:49:18 M50-54 1/38 DivPlc Time Pace 2k Swim 3 31:53 1:36 90k Bike 1 2:34:21 35.0 21.1k Run 2 1:37:52 4:38 Tr1 3:15 Tr2 1:57

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Multisport Lakeside Olympic Distance Triathlon Sept. 18, 2011 Place Name Time Category Place Swim 1500m Bike 40K Run 10K Tr1 Tr2 Plc O/A time pace 162 Pat YOSHIDA 3:13:29 F55-59 2/3 3 170 35:22 2:22 3 162 1:29:29 26.8 3 165 1:03:50 6:23 3:03 1:48 178 David MARSH 3:27:31 M55-59 12/13 12 191 47:54 3:12 12 168 1:31:02 26.4 12 160 1:02:03 6:13 3:52 2:42

Volunteer Opportunity

Bud Willis, our guest speaker last March, is asking the Pacers for some help. His club, London Legion

Track Alliance is hosting the Minor Track Association provincial cross country championships in London

on Saturday, October 29.

Minor track includes children born from 1998 to 2005. There will be 8 races; boys and girls in four age

groups.

Contact Sherry if you can give some time.

[email protected] or 519-858-9880

Peter, Gord and Steve at Springbank

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