Eight runners ventured out Monday evening for their run under a continuous rain which penetrated like WD-40. Sugoi, Jockey, Fruit of the Loom or New Balance garments could not stem the flow of rain which seeped into every seam of clothing or shoes. The eight: RA Edie, Rod, Sharon, Flora, Tish, Sayeeda and Leila, her work colleague from RCH, and Bobtoc ran to Government Road past Cliff Ronning’s home. Cliff unfortunately was not outside playing road hockey with his boys, but according to a guy in the Cameron showers, was off to an arena for lacrosse, one of his boys playing at the Bantam level. Just as well, since we runners had no hockey sticks or balls (tennis) with which to play road hockey. The eight returned via trails from the Coltby Court, Chuttter St area going north and east, eventually returning to Government Road near the Seyforth School, then proceeded north on Brighton to Production Way, utilizing thegorgeous hill, to Eastlake, through to Cameron Street and up the hill back to the Centre. The eight had it all; pavement, trails, hills, puddles; all in all a great run. Time and distance, 1:12, 9 km. A bonus on the run was to meet Alfred Field with his two dogs taking their evening constitutional.
Six runners: RA Edie, Libby, Sharon, Shiraz, Tom Jung and Rod did hill repeats on Underhill, Rod did 4x and the others 3x, then returned to the Centre via Forest Grove Drive, the Gaglardi pedestrian overpass, the Beaverbrooks; time 1:12, distance for Rod 9.3, the others 8.3 km. The six enjoyed no precip but cool temperature, a welcome change from Monday. Harvey did not run apparently.
Sunday: Report from Tom
I think I finished at 100 mins with incredible final spurt, for which all the crowds cheered me up. I found it difficult running with a turkey sandwich growling in my stomach through the 5-10km period. In any event, however, it was great experience for me running through Vancouver about Downtown and Stanley Park. I will never forget that moment. Challenge is beautiful always, isn’t it?I raced with short pitch from the 2nd half on. And whenever I faced the hills, the hill intervals last Wednesday paid off leaving many frontiers behind. And it was also very encouraging that music bands played exciting notes whenever we faced though hills, because I had never experienced it back in Korea. If I get my official record and finish photo from the organization, I will email you over, too. Oh, my thanks also should go to Alex who picked me up in the morning to the start line.
I love all of you Cruisers.
My thanks to Norman for Marathon results. Congratulations to all participants on what I understand wa

s a cold rainy day.
Marathon:
Poco Runners:
Herb Yang 3:49:48
Darren Wright 3:49:55
Laurie Brookbank 3:59:40
Henry O’Shea 4:13:12
Cruisers:
Norman Lum 3:49:24 an excellent time for a guy with plantar fasciitis injury!
Jeff May 3:57:27
Debra Nicol 4:06:12
Alex Lau 4:54:19
Half Marathon:
Tom Jung 1:40:13, 67 of 301 in his age group. Thanks Tom for your great report to me. Glad the Wednesday hill repeats paid off.
Saturday May 1 runs:
Christina and Edie teamed up for a Fort to Fort run in Langley on a cool very wet morning; ran 16.1 k, time 2:17, followed by a session studying foods such as lattes, scones and cinnamon buns, followed by a reconnaissance to Abbotsford to observe a flyball tournament. Why a flyball tournament? Answer: Too wet to watch paint dry. (Editorial by bobtoc).
Rod and Shiraz teamed up for a run from Cameron east to the Mundy Park area to Mariner Way and return under cool damp conditons also, 18 k, time 2:20, a great run for Shiraz in particular who has had little time for training this year.