Category — race reports

The Canada Day long weekend was busy for our members, with SAA racers in a number of races and events.

On Saturday Pat Malavi and Andrew Do completed the Randonneurs Canada Day 144km Populaire ride.

In Steveston at the Salmon Festival’s One Miler, we had Jane DeLemos racing.

Out at the VOWSA sponsored Canada Day swim at Sasamat Lake we had a number of people. Doing the 4km race were Barton, Ann, Erin, and Mary. And doing the 2km race were Dan, Joanne, and Warren.

The Vancouver International Triathlon Half Iron on Sunday featured Naiely Cabrera, Carmen Cameron, Jimmy Chong, Jackie Davidson and Russell Sham. Naiely and Jackie both won their age group. We also had two relay teams composed of Susan Gelinas with Jan Frail and Linda Hilts, as well as Leslie Burgess with Ann Hayes and Joanne Rooney.

Last, but not least, our resident Marathon Maniac Tracy Marshall was in the Foot Traffic Flat Marathon at Sauvie Island north of Portland, OR.

Well done everyone!

This weekend was very busy one for our club members, with a wide variety of events happening.

In no particular order, we had Colleen Cunningham competing in Ironman Couer D’Alene. Down at the Seattle Rock ‘n Roll Marathon was Tracy Marshall doing the full, plus Barb Hinds and Al Pearse racing the half. At the Scotia Bank Half Marathon were Jim Bodden, Julian Forman, Bev Kong, Michelle Los, and Barton Pietras who had a PB at this distance. And finally, Pat Malaviarachchi was racing the Comfortably Numb 25k trail race in Whistler.

Congratulations to everyone.

We had fun on Friday night with a whole bunch of SAA members & friends taking on the Longest Day road race at UBC. Congratulations to SAA members Jim Bodden, Les Pereria, Susan Gelinas, Joanne Fox (that’s me), and Jane De Lemos who all raced the event!

If you haven’t done this race before, you should put it on your calendar. It’s got a great friendly vibe and has the best post-race food you’ll ever see. Stephen took this “action” photo to prove it.  They had cheesecake and ice cream for dessert, for pete’s sake.  That’s my kind of race!

This past Saturday Pat “Malavi” Malaviarachchi ran the 5 Peaks Enduro course at Burnaby Mountain. This 9.8km course offers 614 meter of elevation gain on trails and single track. Pat a great race placing in the top 20 overall.

We congratulate everyone who participated in the 2011 Oliver Half Iron triathlon. The SAA had a very large contingent on what turned out to be a very hot and challenging day.

Racing at Oliver were Daniel Buschert, Leslie Burgess, Colleen Cunningham, Andrew Do, Jan and Courtney Frail, Barb Hinds, Dave Holder, Michelle Horstmann, Jennifer Kay, Michelle LaPorte, Mary Lovelace, Dan McLaren, Al Pearse, Derek Shimozawa, Les Pereira, Barton Pietras, Fay and Marinus Waterberg.

Special congratulations go Michelle Horstmann for winning her age group; and to Dan, Courtney, and Jennifer for completing their first Half Irons. I hope I didn’t miss anyone. And finally a big thanks to everyone who came out to cheer on our people. Well done everyone!

This weekend we had SAA members participating in several different events in varied locations.

“El Presidente” Stephen Ptucha was competing in the Shawnigan Lake Half Iron, while the “First Lady” Susan Gelinas was also there competing in the Olympic distance, finishing third in her age group. Our own Marathon Maniac Tracy Marshall was out in Abbotsford competing in the Run For Water Marathon. And finally our world traveler Benji Chu finished the Comrades Marathon in Durbin South Africa.

Well done everyone!

Congratulations go out to George Tiller for completing Ironman Lanzarote. This IM course is e one of the hardest on the circuit. Well done George! We look forward to hearing all about the event.

I’d like to thank Jim Fox for all the work he did during his term as VP, especially tracking and reporting the race results of SAA members. Jim put in a lot of work gathering all the data, and I know it was very much appreciated by all members.
 
As we move into a new club year I’d like to remind everyone to e-mail me in advance the details of the events you are doing. Not only will this help us recognize your efforts, but occasionally there are discounts or other benefits that we can get if we register as a group. And if you prefer to not have an event result posted, just e-mail me that info too.
 
Marinus
vicepresident@thesaa.ca

Well it was a beautiful day. A bit chilly to start the day, but, it warmed up and no rain or snow.  So, it was near perfect weather for a race.

Tracy Marshall started the day with the Richmond River Run. This is a fast and flat run that uses mostly the dyke from #3 Road and includes around beautiful Lulu Island and Sea Island. Only 12 people did the race, but, it was a beautiful day and Tracy had a “fabulous” time and enjoyed the race. Great job Tracy.

Meanwhile, out at UBC the SAA had a large contingency for the UBC Triathlon. Back to it’s normal March schedule after having to move it to May last year due to the Olympics. It’s not known for the best weather, but, at least there was no rain or snow.

And what a great set of results today at UBC.  For the Olympic distance the SAA had 7 people competing: Leslie Burgess, Jimmy Chong, Barb Hinds (2nd in her age category), Fay Waterberg (2nd in her age category and a PB), Marinus Waterberg (3rd in his age category), and both Dan McLaren +  Al Pearse did their first Olympic distance triathlon – and that qualifies as PB’s for them. In the Sprint…  Quanny Van  PB’d this race by almost 9 minutes) and in the Short… Erin O’Connor who came in 2nd in her age category.  Great job everyone.

And, in Sydney, BC for the Synergy Health Management, Bazan Bay 5k, Brandon Jones ran this and PB’d it by about 36 seconds.  This is the 4th race in the Timex Road Race series – could Brandon be doing them all?  Great job Brandon… a 5 km in under 17 minutes.

Congratulations to everyone who raced this weekend.

On Saturday, at the Whistler Olympic Park, Barton Pietras did a cross country ski race called Sigge’s P’ayakenstut. The race has 3 different distances and Barton did the 15 km skate race and he came in 1st in his age category with a 1:04:45 (3 1/2 minutes ahead of the next person in his group). Great job Barton and Congratulations.