Robert Hamilton Memorial, Confederation Park XC, Halloween Howl

Last week I strained/pulled my calf muscle. Some deep muscle injury that almost toppled me down this very short ditch I was running in. I've had plantar fasciitis and shin splits and the occasional sciatica, but this is the first time I've felt like I might miss some runs. Usually I can just run it out, dial it back, cut the training in half and lower the speed. This feels remarkably different. Hobbling. Walking wounded.

Anyway, I was registered for a couple of races this weekend and I just dropped out of both of them.

Oct 20: The Robert Hamilton Memorial Road Race is a 5 Mile and 10 Mile course in the river valley, starting in Edworthy Park and out and back past the zoo on the Bow River Pathways. There should be about 100-150 people on the course starting at 10:00am. This is the 39th annual Robert Hamilton Memorial and winners are engraved on a giant cup and first male and female in the 10 Miler get $200.

Oct 21: The CRR Confederation Park XC is a 3 person relay race, each doing about 4km in the wild places of a nice urban park.

The Halloween Howl 5k/10k is also on Saturday Oct 20. This is a benefit for the Alberta Diabetes Foundation. This race starts at Eau Claire and also runs the pathways at 10:00am.


Recent results:

Banff Ekiden, Oct 13
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The winning team was the Centaur Subaru Bow Valley Harriers, with an overall time 2:34:11
2nd team The ConocoPhillips Canada Eh Team 2:56:30
3rd Tunnel Mountain Vision in 2:58
4th Adrenaline Rush Beauties and Beasts 2:59:19
5th Adrenaline Rush Marathon Men 3:01:39

leg winners
Leg 1 male Bruce Dalton of Centaur Subaru in 24:02
    female Nicola Everton of Gord's Running Store Women 27:42
Leg 2 male Keith Bradford of Adrenaline Rush Beauties and Beasts in 51:56
    female Ashlee McGuire of Tunnel Mountain Vision in 56:41
Leg 3 male Nick Haddow of Centaur Subaru 15:49
    female Jennifer Sutherland of First Calgary Financial Team in 18:59
Leg 4 male Scott Jensen of Centaur Subaru in 20:36
    female Heather Irving of ConocoPhillips in 24:43
Leg 5 male Frank Woolstencroft of Centaur Subaru in 41:20
    female Stephanie Mills of Tunnel Mountain Vision in 49:16



Gorilla Run, Oct 14
Top 3 Male
1:03:16 Evan Bayer
1:05:52 Michael Wadhuber
1:09:24 Greg Medwid

Top 3 Female
1:17:07 Darcie Tymrick-Purvis
1:17:32 Susan Kinnear
1:17:46 Shannon Winslade

60+ male winner Ian Lewis in 1:23:37
60+ female winner Bonnie Skov in 1:30:05

Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Oct 14
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overall winner Betona Wargo ETH 2:10:35
overall female winner Mary Davies NZL 2:28:56


and some fast Calgarians:
> Emily Kroshus 2:46:40
> Don Bambury 2:48:02
> Dong Jeong 2:56:35
> Kari Elliott 3:00:16
> Erich Ossowski 3:00:49
> David McHattie 3:11:23
> Dawn Ladds-Bond 3:11:52

For a list of upcoming races, mostly in Alberta: http://www.calgaryroadrunners.com/races