Well, it wasn’t Easter and there was no chocolate bunny, but there was great weather, a #BigTurk bunny, a no prob-llama, pancakes and a whole lot of fun at Sunday’s Westcoast Running Sooke 10k. It was race #5 in the 2024 Vancouver Island Race Series. Going in, I honestly wasn’t sure how to approach the effort. Those of you who […]
We’ve had five races to warm up, and now the big guns are coming out: the Comox Valley RV Half Marathon, organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners. It’s only one of two opportunities to run a distance over 10 km in the series and be ranked in the overall Series results. It’s not only […]
https://www.islandseries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-4-300x300.jpg00Christopher Kelsallhttps://www.islandseries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-4-300x300.jpgChristopher Kelsall2024-03-15 19:42:132024-03-15 19:42:16Ambassador Sander: How to run the Comox Valley RV Half Marathon
Canada’s Natasha Wodak and Dayna Pidhoresky, both from Vancouver, will race the Comox Valley RV Half Marathon on Sunday, March 24. Additionally, local runner, Roslyn Smith will seek the women’s 75-79 age-group world record. The Comox Valley RV Half Marathon is on projection to have its all-time record number of finishers broken by a large […]
https://www.islandseries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-4-300x300.jpg00Christopher Kelsallhttps://www.islandseries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-4-300x300.jpgChristopher Kelsall2024-03-14 12:28:242024-03-14 12:28:28Olympians Natasha Wodak and Dayna Pidhoresky to race Comox Valley RV Half Marathon, Ros Smith seeks world age-group record
McCullough’s Westcoast Sooke 10k re-cap I had intended to run the Hatley Castle 8K but we were travelling home that morning after a weeklong family Reading Week vacation back east and I got sick on the flight home. I brought along my race bib for nothing. This illness sidelined me for a week and a […]
With the fourth race just behind us, we’re at the halfway point in the series. This likely is the point in the season where you’ve probably put lots of miles on your trainers, and perhaps also on your race shoes. So you might want to be looking for a fresh pair of shoes for the […]
Sean Mitchell: Sooke 10K race re-cap, chocolate, mascots and personal bests
Well, it wasn’t Easter and there was no chocolate bunny, but there was great weather, a #BigTurk bunny, a no prob-llama, pancakes and a whole lot of fun at Sunday’s Westcoast Running Sooke 10k. It was race #5 in the 2024 Vancouver Island Race Series. Going in, I honestly wasn’t sure how to approach the effort. Those of you who […]
Ambassador Sander: How to run the Comox Valley RV Half Marathon
We’ve had five races to warm up, and now the big guns are coming out: the Comox Valley RV Half Marathon, organized by the Comox Valley Road Runners. It’s only one of two opportunities to run a distance over 10 km in the series and be ranked in the overall Series results. It’s not only […]
Olympians Natasha Wodak and Dayna Pidhoresky to race Comox Valley RV Half Marathon, Ros Smith seeks world age-group record
Canada’s Natasha Wodak and Dayna Pidhoresky, both from Vancouver, will race the Comox Valley RV Half Marathon on Sunday, March 24. Additionally, local runner, Roslyn Smith will seek the women’s 75-79 age-group world record. The Comox Valley RV Half Marathon is on projection to have its all-time record number of finishers broken by a large […]
Karen McCullough: “The post-race food was ‘next level'”
McCullough’s Westcoast Sooke 10k re-cap I had intended to run the Hatley Castle 8K but we were travelling home that morning after a weeklong family Reading Week vacation back east and I got sick on the flight home. I brought along my race bib for nothing. This illness sidelined me for a week and a […]
Ambassador Sander Nederveen trials Brooks shoes at Hatley Castle 8K
With the fourth race just behind us, we’re at the halfway point in the series. This likely is the point in the season where you’ve probably put lots of miles on your trainers, and perhaps also on your race shoes. So you might want to be looking for a fresh pair of shoes for the […]