You don’t have to keep up with the Jones when hiking around Aldergrove – Daily Gaming Worlld

ALDERGROVE – Just a few blocks from the scenic 8th Avenue Regional Park, the horror drama Bates Motel was shot, an A&E adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic psycho.

The Hollywood crew tore down the motel and movie set two years ago, but the equally eerie rolling hills there and around the park remained intact.

“Ghoulish” organizers of the year Aldergrove Ramble 8K and 4.8K races took advantage of these “undulating challenges” to ensure that the second stage of the popular PEN RUN Fraser Valley Trail Race series did not reach the level.

On Sunday, the second day of the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Rat, this could not be met Jones as the mountain lion was called Brandon tamed the course and the 8 km field in a victory time of 30:22. Joanna Williams was the top finisher in 31:06.

More than 120 runners competed for the 4.8 km and 8 km trail races at Aldergrove Ramble on Sunday. The course was in excellent condition considering the wild winter weather this month. (Gord Kurenoff photo)

Caden Lee won the 4.8K in 16:21 while Josephine Soti took the women’s title in 23:31. More than 120 runners had traveled to the event and most of them competed against the rain showers in the morning. Although the track was buried in snow last week, it was in excellent shape on Sunday – some of the runners weren’t that strong!

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The course has some Sound of Music-like gentle hills, a few climbs that should be approved as ski hills (not bitter), and a lower and upper bowl if you enjoy the variety, gasp for air! Seriously, this “route”, as the talented trail runners call it, is fantastic.

The third and final race of the series – that Fort 2-Fort 5 and 10 miles – Leaves February 23 at Fort Langley. We’ll get the full results from Aldergrove as they become available, as well as some fun shots of Katia Stano from iPOLPOPHOTOS, who reported the event for their growing company.

Some other funny notes from Ramble on Sunday:

Glenn Rideout and Soraya Spier remembered their friends at the finish line on Sunday. But be hungry! (Gord Kurenoff photo)

Friends and quick steps

A couple of friendly women who warmed up in a pickup truck before 9 a.m. inspected the dark sky and asked this clerk if we were going to hit the rain or get wet.

I told them if there are chocolate chip cookies and beer at the finish line we can easily beat the rain, but if there is “bad organic food” we may have to build an ark!

It turned out that there was banana bread at the finish line, but you had to run fast enough to make sure you got some. Or have quick friends!

Soraya Spier and Glenn Rideoutwho are training for the next month First halftime in Vancouver and who regularly play on the Lower Mainland on race days, these are particularly quick friends. The friendly rear rabbits flashed around the track, grabbed hot chocolate and food, and waited for this clerk to crawl across the finish line.

And when I arrived after the race, they handed me a cup of banana bread.

“We were waiting for you hungry,” chirped Rideout. “There were two cups an hour ago!”

Friends how?

These great runners had a few laughs when putting on their bib numbers and wondered why I had a camera! (Gord Kurenoff photo)

Intervene to take a few pictures

Two women, who put on their bib numbers and jumped around to stay warm, laughed when I turned my camera towards them.

“Are you the official photographer or do you just want a picture of my dancing ass?” Laughed one of them while I applied 50 shades of red.

“No” and “No” were the right answers to their questions. But judge for yourself!

Blogger Gord Kurenoff (left) and Sandra Jongs Sayer head for the finish line in Aldergrove Ramble 8K on Sunday. (Glenn Rideout photo)

Link not in the trainer manual

Sandra Jongs Sayer, my loyal trainer and one of the nicest people you have ever met, yelled at me in the middle of the 8 km on Sunday.

We were told by the race director Phil Ellis About 3.8 kilometers before the start of the race there would be a “turning point”. “You go left if you are in the 8 km range and you go right if you are in the 4.8 km range. If you change your mind about the 8 km mark, you can go to Drive to the target point. “

I promised Coach Smiley that no matter what happens, you will really take the 8km test.

After a couple of bad downhills and long “hilly challenges” and gasps, I reached the junction and the coach stared at me and shouted, “Don’t even think about it, mister!”

Place the mind reader on her impressive resume. She is good!

Vancouver’s Walter Downey, who competed in 10 marathons in 2019, put on his Justin Trudeau socks on January 19 to tackle the Steveston Icebreaker 8K. He finished 30th overall and first place in his age group in a rapid time of 30:30. (Margaret Buttner photo)

Advice for the Hypo “Justin” period

Moments before the start of the Steveston Icebreaker 8K On January 19, I asked Vancouver Marathon Man Walter Downey, who used ten of these 42.2 km vacuums all over the planet in 2019 to get quick advice.

In a weak moment, and before winter spilled snow, ice, rain and cold on the lower mainland this month, you really signed up for it Humana Rock’n’Roll New Orleans Half marathon that is taking place Sunday February 9th in The Big Easy.

Is it possible, I asked Downey, to change longer training runs with many shorter ones (of course without donuts and cookies) and still avoid wet N’Awlins before the four-hour period has expired?

Walter Downey shows that his “six stars” bloom after a remarkable marathon year. (Instagram photo)

“You might want to consider at least one longer run before doing this half,” said Downey, laughing at my answer “define longer than 8K?”

To be fair, I laughed a little at the colors Justin Trudeau Downey’s socks helped tackle the Icebreaker, which he smashed in a breathtaking 30:30-30 race in the record field of 370 runners (5 miles). He also won his age group 55-59.

So the “longer” run proposed by Downey will take place this Saturday morning, the day before the Super Bowl LIV – I’m doing the “shorter” distance of 16 kilometers in the running room Vancouver Hypothermic Half Marathon Event.

The annual half, 10-miler, finisher medal, and post-race brunch begins at 9:00 a.m. in the Mahoney and Sons Restaurant (601 Stamps Landing). The new course follows the False Creek Seawall to Stanley Park with a loop of Lost Lagoon and Devonian Harbor Park and then returns on the Seawall the same way back to the destination.

For more information and to enter, click HERE,

By the way, Downey also received the prestigious “Six Stars” of the World Marathon Majors Medal last year and is one of only 252 Canadians who can proudly say that. Damn it, Brittany runs a marathon and gets a movie; Downey makes 10 and all he gets is a mention in my little blog. What’s up with what? !!

Natasha Wodak, right, and her trainer Lynn Kanuka celebrate the Canadian marathon runner’s half marathon record in North Vancouver with a cake. (Mary Hinze photo)

Houston, we have no problem!

Natasha Wodak I have to have her cake and eat it this week too.

The North Vancouver runner and 17-time Team Canada player, who set a new record for a Canadian woman in the Houston Half Marathon on January 19, was congratulated by friends, family, and her trainer Lynn Kanuka – And then there was a fork!

Wodak, who scored a glowing 1:09:41 in the 21.1 km race in Texas, was the first Canuck woman to cover this distance in less than 70 minutes. You broke too Rachel CliffCanadian record by 25 seconds. Cliff also lives on the lower mainland.

Wodak won it Vancouver Sun Run three times, last year with a comfortable 32:38 in the 10 km race. The only other woman who won the Sun Run three times? Lynn Kanuka.

Dylan Wykes won the first half on February 10th in Vancouver and had a hot time of 1:05:41 on a bitterly cold day! This year’s event is sold out. (RUNVAN photo)

FINISH LINES: The group draw entry for 2020 Vancouver Lululemon SeaWheeze Half, set for Saturday August 15this now open. click HERE For more information. … The 31st yearbook First halftime is set for Sunday February 9th from 8:30 a.m. in the Roundhouse Community Center in Vancouver. The great race I did in bitterly cold temperatures last year will be sold out next month. Dylan Wykes of Ottawa won the 21.1K race in 1:05:41 last year while Robyn Mildren from Vancouver won the women’s title in 1:17:43. … Read Bradley CuzenClick Steveston Icebreaker’s nice blog (Bradley on the Run) HERE, … Bell’s Annual at last Let’s talk about the day is this Wednesday January 29th, I encourage everyone to use their social media platforms to raise funds for mental health initiatives. And remember that asking for help is fine – spread the word!

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