Saturday, March 15, 2008

CIS, Fish Creek, St. Patrick's Day

The nation's best college track and field athletes met in Montreal last weekend for the 2008 CIS Track and Field Championships. The U of C Dinos had a good showing, finishing second overall as a team for the men and 4th for the women. Individually, Amonn Nelson was first in the 300m in 38.23, Holly Ratzlaff was first in the 600m with 1:30. 21, Sam Effah was first in the 300m in 34.23 and first in the 300m in 34.23. Trent Ratzlaff was first in the 600m in 1:18.61.

On Saturday the Calgary Roadrunners hosted the last trail race of the winter season, with an 8.8km hilly, icy and technical course in Fish Creek Park. The men's winner was Andrew Carruthers in 36:25 and the women's winner was Shari Boyle in 42:08.

Upcoming Races
On March 16th at 10am the Calgary Roadrunners and Strides Running Store present the St. Patrick's Day Run, which is a 5k and 10k race that starts the Athletics Alberta Timex series. The premise is that Athletics Alberta, the governing body in this province for road and track races, selects 10 races around Alberta, like the Dino Dash 10k and the St. Albert 10 Mile and if you pre-register with Athletics Alberta for the series you collect points in your age group, redeemable at the end of the season for swanky prizes. More information on that is at: http://www.athleticsalberta.com/main/index.php?TimexSeries It starts with the St. Patrick's Day 10k and ends with Melissa's Road Race 10k in Banff in September.

There is also a competing St. Patrick's Day race, put on by the Running Room. Same day, slightly earlier start at 9am, runs on the Bow River pathways instead of the roads. All the Running Clinics of the past couple months have been gearing up for this one.

As far as I know, that's it for March. The next big race is the Glencoe Icebreaker, a 10k road race April 6 that usually sells out and a lot of competitive people show up for it. Probably the biggest early spring races are the St. Patrick's Day 10k, the Glencoe Icebreaker, the Police Half, and the Mother's Day Run and Walk.

On March 30, Calgarian Peter Corrigan is competing for Canada in the World Cross Country Championships in Scotland. He earned his way to the world's by placing top six at the Canadian national cross country championships in Guelph in December.

On April 6, track Dino Heather Sim is competing for Canada at the 16th World University Championship in France, which she earned with a 6th place finish at the CIS cross country championship November 10 in Victoria.
The next Calgary Road and Track Report will be in mid-April.

Upcoming
Mar 16 - St. Patrick's Day 10k [1000]
Apr 6 Glencoe Icebreaker 10k
Apr 6 Hustle for Hunger 10k 5k - www.runningroom.com
Apr 13 Spring Trio 15k/10/5k - http://www.springtrio.ca [150]
Apr 19 Climb for Wilderness www.climbforwilderness.ca
Apr 20 Airdrie Half Marathon 10k 5k www.tourdeairdrie.com
Apr 27 Calgary Police Half + 5k www.calgarypolicehalf.ca

Athletics Alberta - www.athleticsalberta.com
Dinos Track Bulletin - http://www.uofcathletics.ca/bulletin_31.htm

No comments: