The new year has started off with a bang for the Comox Valley Road Running Club.
It鈥檚 a busy time for the community running club with the Vancouver Island Road Race Series underway, the Learn to Run 5k Clinic in full swing and preparations underway for the Comox Valley race weekend in March. "The pace is fast," a spokesperson said.
In the Cobble Hill 10K road race, held this past Sunday in Cobble Hill, an excellent showing by local runners moved the club up to third place in the highly competitive club standings on Vancouver Island. Seven hundred runners toed the start line and CVRR runners came home with fine results.
Vince Brotherston lead the way in 37:01 finishing 4th in the tough 45-49 division. He was followed by Terry Neilsen (6th in the 45-49) and Keith Wakelin (4th in the 50-54 division).
On the women鈥檚 side Angela Plamondon led the club, finishing in 42:19 followed by Roslyn Smith and Robyn Dicesare. Plamondon also won 1st in the 45-49 division with Smith winning the 60-64 division and Diane Palmaston winning the 70-74 group. MaryAnn Rolfe took 3rd in the 50-54 set. Young Emily Keyes turned in an excellent performance in the female 15 and under division placing 2nd in 51:45. Her proud dad, Danny Keyes finished only five minutes ahead of his speedy daughter and will have to start looking over his shoulder from now on.
In all, 24 CVRR members ran the race and accumulated enough points to move the club past Frontrunners Westshore and into third place amongst Vancouver Island running clubs. The next race is the hilly Cedar 12K on Feb. 6.
Back in Courteany, the CVRR鈥檚 Learn to Run 5K Clinic has had an exceptional turnout with over 100 participants. This Saturday鈥檚 pre-run talk will feature Dave Nowak of Rehab in Motion and will be about injury prevention. The runners get to enjoy a post-run potluck breakfast. The clinic鈥檚 grand finale will be a 5K run on March 19 from the Filberg Centre the day before the popular Comox Valley Half Marathon.鈥‵or information about the Learn to Run 5K Clinic, race results or upcoming races, go to www.cvrr.ca.
