Harry’s Spring Run Off 8k – March 7, 2010

The sunny weather was on its way out, but the rain held off until after the “Harry’s Spring Run Off” in Stanley Park yesterday. SAA’s Brandon Jones had another great race finishing 2nd in his age group. Great work Brandon!

Here’s this week’s uncoached practice. Uncoached_Swim_8Mar10

Don’t forget this Tuesday’s run (March 9th) is out of Precision Health’s office and following the run there is a technical talk by Carmen Bolt, President of Human Motion, on Injury Prevention. http://www.thesaa.ca/2010/02/17/tech-talk-injury-prevention-tues-march-9th/

One final reminder on the Oakley Jawbone offer through our sponsor Speed Theory. I’ve extended the deadline to Thursday March 11th. If you want a pair of these orange and blue Jawbones then get your payment in to either Linda Hilts or Stephen Ptucha at one of the training sessions by this coming Thursday. So far we are a few people short of meeting the minimum quantity. Don’t let this one time special offer pass you by. If you have any questions, fire me a note at president@thesaa.ca

The next 2 Wednesday evenings , March 10 and March 17,are the last two for this spin session. Please bring in addition to your usual cycling gear, your running shoes and reflective gear or lights as we will be running as well.

If you have any questions, please speak to Calvin.

Have fun with the workout Uncoached Swim Workout 2Mar10

The Steveston Athletic Association is very pleased to announce the addition of the Run Inn to our family of club sponsors. The Run Inn has two locations in the lower mainland to help with all of our running needs. Keep an eye on the SAA calendar and website for special events and occasional runs from the Run Inn. In the meantime, drop by and introduce yourself to Chris and Steve at the Vancouver location and Kevin at the Tsawwassen location.

Run Inn Vancouver
2236 West 41st Avenue (at Yew)

Run Inn Delta / Tsawwassen
1212B 56th St, Delta

www.runinn.com

SAA AGM

 TIME CORRECTION – AGM starts at 3pm (NOT at 3:30 as I previously posted)

Date:                 Saturday March 13, 2010
Time:                3:00 to 4:30 pm
Location:        Gilmore Gardens
                            4088 Blundell Road
                            Richmond 
                            (ask at the front desk for the room, or look for an SAA director)

Light refreshements & DOOR PRIZES will be offered. Please make an effort to attend the club AGM as this is a member’s club and we need to hear from our members to shape our future.

Director elections will take place along with voting on proposed AGM bylaw changes. Details of the proposed AGM bylaws will be made available prior to the AGM.

If you are interested in helping out with the club and a Director role interests you, then please send your name and a short paragraph about yourself to secretary@thesaa.ca. All diretor positions are 1 year terms (President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Director at Large, potentially TWO new (2nd & 3rd Director at Large). Descriptions of the roles can be found in the SAA constitution on the SAA website.

As many of you have seen, unfortunately track & trail runners have closed their doors. SAA would like to thank Neil Aleong and  track & trail runners for their support of the Steveston Athletic Association over the past two years. We wish Neil all the best in his future endeavours.

2010 Fort Langley Historic 10k & Half Marathon – Feb 21, 2010

It was a chilly but sunny morning out in Fort Langley for the Historic Half Marthon. With the Olympics cancelling the First Half Half Marathon in Vancouver, participation numbers were far higher at the Historic Half. All SAA members had great races on this challenging (i.e. hilly) course.  

In the 10k race, Brandon Jones tore up the course finishing 3rd overall and 2nd in his age group.

The Half Marathon race saw the following SAA members crushing those hills: Jackie Davidson, Jim Fox, Susan Gelinas, Joanne Fox, Marinus Waterberg, Fay Waterberg, Brain Flett, George Tiller, Calvin Gehlen, John Kibblewhite, Tess Zevenbergen , Ann Hayes, Trudy Harris, Karen Telford. Nice work to all of you.

Back in Steveston there was a post race refuelling at club sponsor Dave’s Fish & Chips.