| Wednesday, June 30 2010 - Speed River Twilight Challenge Results |
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A windy night but sunny night greeted participants at the Speed River Twilight Challenge. The small fields composed mostly of youth age athletes put up impressive results with Speed River athletes brining home two wins in the men's 1200 Drew Anderson and the women's 1500 metre steeplechase Meghan Mechler. Full results available here. |
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| Wednesday, June 30 2010 - Coolsaet First Canadian To Win Peachbud 10k In Ten Years |
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Reid Coolsaet continued his build towards this fall's Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon with another win on the roads of Southern ontario. Coolsaet became the first Canadian to win the Tim Horton's Peachbud 10k in Grimsby in ten years, with his time of 29 minutes and 34 seconds. Coolsaet won the race handily with Derek Nakluski finshing second nearly 50 seconds back. Fellow Speed River athletes John Parrot and Rob Koziarski finished eighth and ninth respectively in the race. Coolsaet will next be in action July 11th at the Acura 10 Miler in Toronto. The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon is set for September 26th. |
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| Tuesday, June 29 2010 - Speed River Twilight Challenge Set For Tonight |
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The Speed River Track and Field Club will be hosting the Speed River Twilight Challenge tonight at St. James track. The event which will start at 7 pm, will have a youth focus as the race will be run will be the Bantamn (under 13) and midget (under 15) distances. The meet will start with the 1200 metres, followed by the 300 metres and conclude with the 1500 metre steeplechase. |
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| Sunday, June 27 2010 - Stellingwerff Kicks Of New Balance Euro Tour With A Win |
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The Speed River New Balance Euro Tour kicked off in style Saturday night with Hilary Stellingwerff winning the 800 metres at the Bonus Track Meet in Notwill, Switzerland. Stellingwerff won the 800 in 2:04.26, Stellingwerff followed the rabbit from the gun out in an exceptional fast 58.3 seconds, as the rabbit stepped off at 500 metres, Stellingwerff had built up a five metre lead and carried it through to the finish to win by nearly 2 seconds. Teammate Rachel Aubry was fourth in a time of 2:07.85. In the men's 1500 metres Tim Konoval placed second in a time of 3 minutes 48.68 seconds. |
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| Friday, June 25 2010 - New Balance Euro Tour Set To Begin |
A group of fourteen Speed River athletes will be heading to Birmingham, UK for the next three weeks for a series of three to four races. Most of the group flew out Friday morning and will be spending the new two days in London, England before heading north to Birmingham. Where they will then spend a few days adjusting before the racing will begin. Three athletes Hilary Stellingwerff, Rachel Aubry and Tim Konoval left last week and will be racing Saturday in Switzerland at the Bonus Track Meet.
Stay tuned to Guelphrunning as we will have updates from each of the competitions. The European Racing Circuit can be unpredictable so the racing schedule may change as opportunities present themselves for athletes, below is a basic schedule.
| 26-Jun-10 |
Bonus Track |
Notwill, SUI |
| 30-Jun-10 |
BMC- Watford |
Watford, UK |
| 01-Jul-10 |
International Athletic Challenge Meeting |
Velenje, SLO |
| 03-Jul-10 |
Cork City Sports |
Cork, IRL |
| 07-Jul-10 |
Belgian 3000 Metre Steeple Championships |
Liege, BEL |
| 08-Jul-10 |
Athletissma 2010 |
Lausanne, SUI |
| 09-Jul-10 |
Reunion Internacional Ciudad de Barcelona |
Barcelona, SPN |
| 10-Jul-10 |
British Milers Club Grand Prix |
Solihull, UK |
| 10-Jul-10 |
KBC Nacht |
Heusden, BEL |
| 13-Jul-10 |
BMC Gold Standard- Stretford |
Stretford, UK |
| 14-Jul-10 |
BMC Regional- Birmingham |
Birmingham, UK |
| 15-Jul-10 |
Karlstad GP |
Karlstad, SWE |
| 17-Jul-10 |
BMC Regional- Lee Valley |
Lee Valley, UK |
The following Speed River athletes will be part of this year's New Balance Euro Tour
Rachel Aubry
Dana Buchanan
Rachel Cliff
Hilary Stellingwerff
Courtney Laurie
Amber McGown
Lydia Willemse
Kyle Boorsma
Matt Brunsting
Alex Genest
Tim Konoval
Rob Jackson
Taylor Milne
Robin Watson |
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| Thursday, June 24 2010 - Rollin' With The River- Season V Episode II, Hogtown Here We Come |
We chat with Reid Coolsaet and Eric Gillis who will both be running this fall's Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
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| Thursday, June 17 2010 - Rollin' With The River Is Back! Season V Episode I, Coming Together As One |
In the season premiere of the fifth season of Rollin' With The River, we head to the Guelph Running Community Town Hall Meeting. The Town Hall brought together people from all aspects of the Guelph Running community to talk about the issues we face as a community and how we can develop Guelph into the Running Capital of Canada.
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| Saturday, June 5 2010 - Milne Runs 3:57 at Speed River Inferno |
Hundreds of Guelph track fans descended on St James High School hoping for one thing, to witness the magic of the first sub four mile in Wellington County and Taylor Milne made sure they did not leave disappointed. Milne smashed the barrier running 3:57.50 to win the mile by almost six seconds. Milne result was the highlight of an outstanding evening of action.
With almost no wind and beautiful weather the meet was a stunning success, the men's 600 metres saw Speed River's Dustin Gamble finish second overall in 1 minute 20.04 seconds, Jordan Langridge of the Phoenix TC got the win in 1:19.70. In the women's 600, Speed River's Rachel Aubry was third in 1 minute 31.14 second, Melissa Bishop of the Ottawa Lions got the win with her performance of 1:30.37. The women's 1500 saw two Speed River athletes hit the podium as Amber McGown was second in 4:17.48, while Rachel Cliff was third in 4:19.61, Megan Wright of Edmonton got the win in 4:16.11.
Full results here. VideosMen's 600 Metres "A" Section
Women's 600 Metres
Women's 1500 Metres "A" Section
Men's Mile |
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| Friday, June 4 2010 - Speed River Middle Distance Inferno Set For Tomorrow Night |
The Speed River Middle Distance Inferno will be held tomorrow night at St James Catholic High School in Guelph, Ontario. The meet will conclude the three meet 401 Distance Series which began last Saturday in Windsor and also had a stop Wednesday night in London. Saturday’s event will be unique in its format as the entire program will be completed in one hour. The races will begin at 7 pm with the men’s 600 metres.
Very strong fields are expected in all the events. The men’s 600 will be led by Geoff Harris who captured the silver medal at last year’s Canadian Championships in the 800 metres. The women’s 600 metres is expected to be a dual between Melissa Bishop, who is the Canadian University Champion in the event and local favourite Rachel Aubry. The penultimate event of the evening will be the women's 1500 metres. A outstanding field will led by Four time Canadian Champion over 5000 metres Megan Wright and Speed River’s own Amber McGown will be on hand. Two time Canadian Champion Hilary Stellingwerff will be pacing the field that also includes Canada’s top two junior athletes Jessica Parry of London and Speed River’s Genevieve Lalonde.
The night will conclude with an attempt at the first ever sub four mile in Wellington County. There have been 41 Canadians who have broken the barrier and two of the newest members of the club Taylor Milne and Kyle Boorsma will be in the field looking to repeat the feat at home. Five of the top seven performers in Canada this year will be in the field, so it promises to be a very strong finish to the event.
Full entries are available here. |
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| Wednesday, June 2 2010 - Milne Continues To Dominate 401 Distance Series |
The newly launched 401 Distance Series and Taylor Milne seem to be a match made in heaven. After running a stellar 1500 Saturday night at the series first stop in Windsor, Milne was back in action Wednesday night in London at the London Distance Classic, the second stop of the series. Milne once again impressed running a personal best and Speed River club record time of 1 minute and 48.56 seconds to win the men’s 800 metres by the slimmest of margins holding off a fast closing Kyle Smith by 1/100th of a second. Milne’s time also broke the TD Waterhouse Stadium record.
Joining Milne as a newly minted stadium record holder was his Speed River teammate Robin Watson who added the 3000 metre record to the 3000 metre steeplechase record he already held. Watson used a furious last 1000 metres to run away from the field and secure the record and the win in a time of 8 minutes 11.12 seconds. Other Speed River top three finishers at the meet were Hilary Stellingwerff second in the women’s 800 metres in 2 minutes 6.88 seconds and Samantha Beattie second in the women’s 3000 metres in 9 minutes 59.99 seconds.
The 401 series will conclude Saturday evening with the Speed River Middle Distance Inferno which will be hosted at St James High School in Guelph. The action will start at 7pm with the men’s 600 metres and will culminate in Milne’s attempt to become the first athlete to break the four minute mile in Wellington County in the men's mile which will be run at 7:45 pm. |
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