A Twitch in Time
Cruisers and friend of the Cruisers, Len Soet of the Telus runners, attended a seminar at the Centre Monday 7:30 to 9:00 conducted by our own Rob Stagg. The subject matter was training for the Portland Marathon based on scientific factors: heart rate, zones, lactic acid, those fast and slow twitchy muscles, how the slow twitchy ones get us to the finish line, huh! those who weren’t there missed a very informative seminar, including the question and answer period, in which many participated Thank you, Rob, for the preparation you made and for the excellent presentation.
Wednesday’s run:
Ten Cruisers turned out for a run west on a dry, +5C evening. Laura and Valerie ran to Broadway and Underhill before returning to the Centre. RA Edie, Libby with Bobtoc and Harvey ran not quite to the IGA corner before returning, their distance approx 8:5 km, time 1:20. Tracy, Larry, Rod, Chris Keeling and Sayeeda ran to the For Lease corner (aka IGA) and returned, distance 9:5, time 1:15.
Five Cruisers braved the rainy but relatively mild +3C morning Saturday to run west on the Beaverbrooks to the Gaglardi pedestrian overpass to Forest Grove Drive, west to Underhill, with Rene and Chris Keeling going north to Shellmont before reversing to Underhill, then east on Eastlake back to the Centre, with Laura, Rod and Bobtoc running the same route except for the jog to Shellmont. Distance, for the first two, 7:4, for the last three, about 7km, and times, 50 minutes and 56 minutes respectively. In Rod’s opinion, it was not the best day of the year. Rod was not finished for the day: he played field hockey in the pm at Eric Hamber.
Laurie and Edie braved the pouring rain to run 10k in the Ginger Jar/Vancouver Historic Half and 10k. The venue was great and we received an anchor medal. Very appropriate for R A Edie. The rain stopped in the last third of our run. I saw Kathy Ford with a few Bushtits before the run. They were doing the half. We were all wondering what we were thinking to sign up for a run at the end of November but all’s well that ends well. We felt better after we finished and glad that we didn’t “bail out”. Even in the rain and mist, Stanley Park is a beautiful run – the water was high and the waves were crashing in in some places. No better place on earth.
Chip time results:
Laurie 1:04:49
Edie 1:14:48
Kathryn Ford, Half 2:20:47
