Vancouver Runners, the SOBs, Run for Charity

Pacific Region Runs the Vancouver Eastside 10K

On Saturday, September 14, five employees in the Pacific region formed a team, the SOBs, and took part in the inaugural Vancouver Eastside 10K run. The run brought together over 1,000 runners to raise funds and awareness about 3 organizations that are supporting the downtown Vancouver East Side community:

• Downtown Eastside Women's Centre,
• Watari Counselling & Support Services, and
• Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

The SOBs Team was made up of veteran runners and beginners: Hugh Black, Pierre Lajoie, Tracy Maloney, Stuart McDonald, and Michelle Mitchell.

Each member of the SOBs finished the race in their own time and the team celebrated their success at the end by showing off their medal.

Congratulations to each member of the team for running the race and supporting the community! The team would like to extend a special thank you to Stuart McDonald for organizing and facilitating the team’s participation

Week of Sept. 16

Hi Runners,

This week in Run Club:

Tues- We run!

Thurs-We run!

Fri-Noon: Pick up race kit

Sunday-ARMY RUN!!!

Army Run Photo and Video Shoot

Let’s meet outside the Lord Elgin for a few photos and short vid before the race. Please email me if you are planning to come for this so I don’t wait for you and miss my chance to get in the corral.

We’ll also get a photo of our runners wearing their Tshirts and dog tags on Tues., Sept. 24 .

T-shirts

This week and next week, I’ll be collecting cheques for the T-shirt order. The shirts will take longer to be produced than I had understood and I apologize for that. We will receive them around early to mid-October. For Ottawa runners, that means layers. YVR runners, I think you’re OK. Photos when we get them, though—we will look smashing!

Run for the Cure Team

Team captain, Jason, has put together a fabulous team of 10 for Run for the Cure on Oct.6! Thanks to: Leo, Yen Enge, Karin, Dina, Christina, Rosemarie, Jason, Jenny, Ruth and Erin for participating in this run for an awesome cause! We’re having a photoshoot on Monday at 11:30 so wear pink! If you want to donate to our team, please do so here. We are quite a ways from our goal this year so every little bit helps!

Run for a Cause, Sat., Sept.28 for i2P

Join me in running for i2P, Ray Zahab’s organization, in Joe Rios’s Run for a Cause (#r4ac) on Sat., Sept. 28. Joe is pulling together runners for all different causes into one gigantic 5K fun run for charities on Saturday, Sept. 28 at Parliament Hill. It’s free and it’s a good time. Last year I went, met a new friend, and got free Lululemon running socks. Not bad for a bridge-to-bridge run! Join me—we’ll try to get some publicity for i2P as a thanks to Ferg and Ray for joining us last week. Email me!

Prison Break

Well, it was indeed alot of fun! I’m still sore, though (all those walls and ropes require more triceps than I’ve got!) If you like a fitness challenge, this’ll do it.

Favourite obstacle: sliding on my tummy through the mud down a hill under barbed wire. Yep. Least favourite: either the ice water tank or balance beam over the pond (it wiggled).

Bushtukah Bras and Bikes

Need a new sports bra or a bike? Bushtukah sent us info on their upcoming Bras and Bikes event.

Prison Break Ottawa, 2013

Over walls, under barbed wire, through tunnels & sewer pipes, up ropes, across planks, through ice water, down mud slides (belly first), over bonfires--this was a challenging, but fun, course!

and here is the first challenge: up over the wall of hay into the field full of prison guards:

I managed to get a few bad vids before the race. Fwiw, here's one.

And here's my new buddy, Tanya. We overcame mud slides, prison guards, sewer pipes, barbed wire, ice tanks and fire together. If that's not good for bonding, what is?

Week of Sept. 9 in Run Club

Hi Runners,

This week in Run Club:

Tues- We ran (well, JT and Leo did, anyway J)

Wed-I’m doing a make-up run if anyone wants to join me (canal run). Email me so I wait for you.

Thurs-NOT TO MISS!! Last Special Speaker talk of the year and it’s DA BOSS!! Running legends Ray Zahab and Ferg Hawke talk to us about ultras, mental strength and helping youth realize that they, too, can do the impossible if they set their minds to it.

Sat-Prison Break at Vorlage. I’m going. Must be crazy: chased up a mountain through mud pits up rope climbs and over walls… and I PAID for this! Pics and updates to follow next week.

T-shirt order is IN!

Woohoo! Can’t WAIT to take some pics of us in our new T’s!!

Army Run

If you are doing the Army Run, let me know. I’d like to get a pre-run photo and vid on site of Run Club members ready to race. Also, a post-run pic back at 99 Bank the week after with everyone wearing their shirts and dog tags would be great!

Vids of special speakers on P drive

Thanks to our Lync expert, Jason, we have a number of this year’s presentations recorded and available for Run Club members to watch at their convenience. Email me for info.

If you missed Ryan Grant’s talk last week on the biomechanics of running, it’s avialable, too. Awesome talk: Ryan knows his stuff. Here’s his blogif you’d like more info. Also, I have his cards at my office: feel free to grab one and contact him for any questions on running form.

Special Event by SoleFit (Nov.2—mark your calendars)

SoleFit is putting on a special event on Nov.2 called Running Without Boundaries: The Limitless and Limiting Mind. It will be at the Museum of Nature from 5 to 9 pm.

Eat to Cleanse Your Body

Linda Houle Robert’s latest newsletteris out. If you are interested in eating better and proper nutrition, she’s an amazing resource. Check it out.

Sports and the Brain

If you are interested in how athletes can keep pushing themselves the way they do, check out the fascinating research on the Sports Information and Research Centre’s latest newsletter on Sports and the Brain. I know one of the reasons I run is for mental “cleansing.”

Ray Zayhab at our Workplace!

This is one presentation you do not want to miss! Ray will be joined by Ferg Hawke via Lync! Two running legends at one presentation!

Ray Zahab is an international legend, a motivational speaker par excellence, the founder of an organization (impossible2Possible) that educates youth through adventure learning and expeditions, and an inspiration to thousands of people across the globe.

A former pack-a-day smoker, Ray now performs amazing ultramarathon feats beyond what even the most intrepid runner can imagine. He has run across the Sahara Desert (watch the trailer for the documentary on it: Running the Sahara), 3 coastal trails of Canada (400K), the South Pole (1100K solely on foot), frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia (650K), Atacama Desert (1200K), Death Valley (237K), and this summer, he ran over 2000K across the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

Ferg Hawke, another running legend (nicknamed “The Running Man”), will be joining us via teleconference. Ferg was overweight and unfit at 30 years old, but within two years was running triathlons, then ultras and winning them! Ferg is renowned for placing second in the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley twice. He also holds the second best time by a North American in the Marathon des Sables, a gruelling 150K course through the Sahara Desert. Like Ray, his mental strength and determination are amazing!

Come meet Ray and Ferg and be inspired to change the impossible to possible!

Thursday, September 12

Noon

Training Room

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Special Speaker, Ryan Grant- The Biomechanics of Running

Ryan Grant is a certified pedorthist, an elite runner, former professional triathlete, and co-owner (with his sister) of SoleFit, Ottawa.

Ryan recently returned from 3 weeks in Ethiopia volunteering at Ya Ya Village, a training facility for endurance athletes.

Come out and learn from Ryan about the biomechanics of running and how to improve your running form.

Wednesday, Sept.4

Noon

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