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Hello
Everyone,
September
19, 2019
In this Issue:
- Northern Cancer Foundation Walk Run
for Hope kick off
- Amber Does Tahoe 200
- That Sudbury Sports Guy: A cross-country
challenge to make Canada proud
- The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart
of a Runner
- Join SudburyRocks!! Running Club Run
for the Cure Team
- Upcoming Events
Sep
22 The Secret Marathon at Cinefest, Oct 6 Run for the
Cure
- Running Room Run Club Update:
- Track North News
LU XC: Tentative Meet Schedule'19
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Cancer foundation's annual fundraiser will
get a little spooky this year
Halloween theme for Walk/Run for Hope at Kivi
Park
Donning
Halloween costumes and helping to launch the fifth
annual Cancer Centre Walk/Run for Hope is sister Ada
Schweyer, left, Stella Schweyer, right, and Milena
Raso. (Arron Pickard/Sudbury.com)
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Things will get a bit
spooky this year for the fifth annual Cancer Centre
Walk/Run for Hope.
That's because this year's
event is being held only days before Halloween. On
Oct. 27, the final event of the Move Kivi Park Fitness
Series will take place, and participants are invited
to don their Halloween costumes and go trick or treating
on Kivi Park's trails.
More than 2,000 people
have participated in the event over the past four
years, raising more than $200,000 for the Northern
Cancer Foundation. The money supports the Northern
Cancer Centre for patient care, equipment and research.
“It's been four
years at Kivi Park, and we're thrilled to be there
once again,” said Northern Cancer Foundation
executive director Tannys Laughren.
“It's about raising
funds, but it's also about getting families out and
active. We want people to recognize that, if you're
active and healthy, you have better cancer outcomes.”
The event will offer
four different distances — one kilometre, three
kilometres, five kilometres and 10 kilometres —
with all routes running through Kivi Park.
Registration is $35 and
including a t-shirt and lunch. Participants are encouraged
to raise funds by collecting pledges. Children 12
and under can take part for free in the one-kilometre
route or $5 in other races.
For more information
or to register, visit ncfsudbury.com
or phone 705-523-4673.
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Amber Does Tahoe 200
The Tahoe 200 is an
incredible journey around the largest alpine lake
in North America. The route circumnavigates the sparkling,
clear blue waters of Lake Tahoe from the Tahoe Rim
Trail, occasionally detouring off the TRT to explore
aspen meadows, rock gardens of giants, small impossibly
blue lakes, thick canopied forests, and long ridge
lines with stunning views. The route is nothing less
than magical. The total elevation gain for the route
is 40,200 feet of gain and 40,200 loss for a total
elevation change of 80,400 feet.
Runners in the T200 are a unique breed
within a unique sport! It takes an adventurous spirit,
love of the outdoors, and a penchant for suffering
to finish a race like this. Although the race is difficult
and long, it never disappoints in its incredible diversity
of flora and fauna, sweeping views, and glittering
alpine lakes.
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Congratulations to Lively`s
Amber Konikow on her successful completion of the
Tahoe 200 Mile Endurance Run. This was her second
attempt. A year more mental and physical training
made all the difference.
Amber Konikow
Status
Race Status Finished
Last Update Rec'd 12:07:08 PM (PDT) 09/17/19
Current speed 0.5 mph
Route mile 204.7 mi
Route average speed 2.1 mph
Route distance per day 49.6 mi
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That Sudbury Sports Guy: A cross-country challenge
to make Canada proud
Randy
Pascal For The Sudbury
Young runners
take part in the Laurentian XC Challenge at Laurentian
University. This year's event is to take place on
Sept. 24. PHOTO SUPPLIED
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Sudbury is already very
well-known as the home of the largest nickel on the
planet. Apparently, folks in these parts have at least
one other good reason to be bursting in their britches.
“We found out this summer
that we are the largest single day elementary race
in Canada,” noted Darren Jermyn, the mastermind
behind the Laurentian XC Challenge, set to take place
on Sept. 24 this year. “The
next biggest that we could find is 1,600 competitors
at an event in Edmonton, and that’s a city with
a million people.”
That’s pretty impressive
stuff for an initiative that was established with
far more modest goals than breaking new ground, from
a numbers standpoint, on a national scale. “It’s
a fundraising event for the varsity team here (the
Laurentian University Voyageurs), and we were looking
for something that we could grow,” Jermyn said
of the challenge that was launched in Copper Cliff
Park back in 2009, with roughly 350 or so entries
representing six to seven different schools. “It
was a natural link for us, a running team, to host
a running race, and we hoped to grow it over time,
but we never had any idea it would get as big as it
did.”From a 100 per cent
plus increase in Year 2, to 900 students, the fall
tradition has reached a high water mark of 2,100 or
so in 2017.
Furthermore, it constitutes
something of a rarity in Sudbury, in that the morning
long races bring together children from all four school
boards in the region, a key factor in pushing the
kind of growth that the event has experienced. Beyond
that, Jermyn is quick to point out a few other notable
contributors.
“The focus is really
on fun,” he stated. “The course is tough,
but not too challenging. It is a running race, at
the end of the day, but we call it a health promotion
event and have teamed up with Heart and Stroke for
10 years now. “There is
an educational component as we try and have a group
warmup with 2,000 people,” he laughed.
In fact, there are clearly
some obvious pragmatic elements to race organization
that must be kept at the forefront in the minds of
race officials. For the most part, however, as Jermyn
stated proudly, “We kind of have it down to
a science now.” “We
can run up to 400 athletes per race,” he added.
“I call it the world’s longest finishing
chute. To keep all of the athletes in order at the
end of the race, you need about a 200-metre finishing
chute.”
Quite understandably,
this makes for a very hectic day for all volunteers
involved. “For our two-kilometre race, the top
kids might be in around seven minutes, but your average
kids are in around 10 — and they are coming
in every half second,” stressed Jermyn. “The
trails are fine (with these numbers). They’re
wide enough. “And we are
now able to load and unload 50-60 buses in less than
45 minutes. We’re pretty efficient, and teachers
are not nearly as stressed now. It used to be intimidating
the first time, as you get dropped off in the morning
and have to send your bus away.”
While this new claim
to fame is nice, it is the fundraising nature of this
venture that is particularly beneficial, especially
for a varsity cross-country program that saw substantial
cuts to their budget based on the current funding
challenges at Laurentian University. “It was
maybe even more important for us, as a varsity team,
to have a community involvement,” said Jermyn.
“A lot of our team members will interact with
elementary students, whether they are in teacher’s
college, or kinesiology, or whatever.
“We had moved the
races first to Thursday (from the weekend) and then
to Tuesday, to give our varsity team, which does a
lot of the prep work for race day, the time to recover
before their own races on the weekend. We have to
groom the trails, bring in a lot of equipment and
a lot of food. We’re bigger than OFSAA.”
“The crew at Lockerby
Composite (Kerry Abols and company) has been great,”
Jermyn noted. “For 10 years now, they have been
providing us with 30 to 40 volunteer marshals. And
our adult marshals that come out each and every year
think it’s just a wonderful day.”
Certainly, some of the
fastest youngsters in the field will garner a certain
amount of publicity. Jermyn, for one, is quick to
caution the parent who interprets their child’s
first place finish in the Grade 3-4 challenge race
as a sure sign that their tickets for the 2032 Summer
Olympics should be purchased soon. “We
know that with running, children change significantly
from Grade 6 to Grade 12,” he said. “I
will tell every parent who contacts me, and Dick Moss
does the same, that (long distance) running is one
of the sports that you want to start later in life.
We don’t seriously coach kids until they are
in about Grade 8 or Grade 9.”
And though the reasons
might be many, there is little doubt that the XC Challenge
has connected with Sudbury and area youth. “One
year, we jumped in with Jump Rope for Heart and gave
out 1,200 skipping ropes,” recalled Jermyn.
“We gave them out at the start of the day and
had 1,200 kids skipping rope on this track. “The
kids get a little giddy when they get out here. They
want to exercise, and that’s really what the
day is all about.”
Randy Pascal is That
Sudbury Sports Guy. His column runs regularly in The
Sudbury Star.
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The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a
Runner
Regular exercise changes the look and workings
of the human heart. And researchers are discovering that different
sports affect the heart differently.
By
Gretchen Reynolds for the New York Times
Do world-class swimmers’
hearts function differently than the hearts of elite
runners?
A new study finds that
the answer may be yes, and the differences, although
slight, could be telling and consequential, even for
those of us who swim or run at a much less lofty level.
Cardiologists and exercise
scientists already know that regular exercise changes
the look and workings of the human heart. The left
ventricle, in particular, alters with exercise. This
chamber of the heart receives oxygen-rich blood from
the lungs and pumps it out to the rest of the body,
using a rather strenuous twisting and unspooling motion,
as if the ventricle were a sponge being wrung out
before springing back into shape.
Exercise, especially
aerobic exercise, requires that considerable oxygen
be delivered to working muscles, placing high demands
on the left ventricle. In response, this part of the
heart in athletes typically becomes larger and stronger
than in sedentary people and functions more efficiently,
filling with blood a little earlier and more fully
and untwisting with each heartbeat a bit more rapidly,
allowing the heart to pump more blood more quickly.
While almost any exercise
can prompt remodeling of the left ventricle over time,
different types of exercise often produce subtly different
effects. A 2015 study found, for instance, that competitive
rowers, whose sport combines endurance and power,
had greater muscle mass in their left ventricles than
runners, making their hearts strong but potentially
less nimble during the twisting that pumps blood to
muscles.
These past studies compared
the cardiac effects of land-based activities, though,
with an emphasis on running. Few have examined swimming,
even though it is not only a popular exercise but
unique. Swimmers, unlike runners, lie prone, in buoyant
water and hold their breaths, all of which could affect
cardiac demands and how the heart responds and remakes
itself.
So, for the new study,
which was published in November in Frontiers in Physiology,
researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada
and other institutions set out to map the structure
and function of elite swimmers’ and runners’
hearts.
The researchers focused
on world-class performers because those athletes would
have been running or swimming strenuously for years,
presumably exaggerating any differential effects of
their training, the researchers reasoned.
Eventually they recruited
16 national-team runners and another 16 comparable
swimmers, male and female, some of them sprinters
and others distance specialists.
They asked the athletes
to visit the exercise lab after not exercising for
12 hours and then, when on site, to lie quietly. They
checked heart rates and blood pressures and finally
examined the athletes’ hearts with echocardiograms,
which show both the structure and functioning of the
organ.
It turned out, to no
one’s surprise, that the athletes, whether runners
or swimmers, enjoyed enviable heart health. Their
heart rates hovered around 50 beats per minute, with
the runners’ rates slightly lower than the swimmers’.
But all of the athletes’ heart rates were much
lower than is typical for sedentary people, signifying
that their hearts were robust.
The athletes also had
relatively large, efficient left ventricles, their
echocardiograms showed.
But there were interesting
if small differences between the swimmers and runners,
the researchers found. While all of the athletes’
left ventricles filled with blood earlier than average
and untwisted more quickly during each heartbeat,
those desirable changes were amplified in the runners.
Their ventricles filled even earlier and untwisted
more emphatically than the swimmers’ hearts
did.
In theory, those differences
should allow blood to move from and back to the runners’
hearts more rapidly than would happen inside the swimmers’.
But these differences
do not necessarily show that the runners’ hearts
worked better than the swimmers’, says Jamie
Burr, a professor at the University of Guelph and
director of its human performance lab, who conducted
the new study with the lead author, Katharine Currie,
and others.
Since swimmers exercise
in a horizontal position, he says, their hearts do
not have to fight gravity to get blood back to the
heart, unlike in upright runners. Posture does some
of the work for swimmers, and so their hearts reshape
themselves only as much as needed for the demands
of their sport.
The findings underscore
how exquisitely sensitive our bodies are to different
types of exercise, Dr. Burr says.
They also might provide
a reason for swimmers sometimes to consider logging
miles on the road, he says, to intensify the remodeling
of their hearts.
Of course, the athletes
here were tested while resting, not competing, he
says, and it is not clear whether any variations in
their ventricles would be meaningful during races.
The study also was cross-sectional,
meaning it looked at the athletes only once. They
might have been born with unusual cardiac structures
that somehow allowed them to excel at their sports,
instead of the sports changing their hearts.
Dr. Burr, however, doubts
that. Exercise almost certainly remakes our hearts,
he says, and he hopes future experiments can tell
us more about how each activity affects us and which
might be best for different people.
But even now, he says,
“an important message is that all of the athletes
showed better function than a normal person off the
street, which supports the message that exercise is
good for hearts.”
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October
6, 2019
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Welcome to CIBC Run for the Cure
in Sudbury
We registered Sudbury
Rocks !! Running Club as a team in the CIBC
Run for the Cure on October 6, 2019. Please join the
team. We also want to have our team name on the back
of our shirts. The deadline date is below. We hope to
see you all on October 6.
Team T-shirt Deadline
Have your team's name on it! Recruit 10 team members
or more and receive custom team T-shirts. All team members
must meet the minimum requirements by midnight on September
19th.
RUN START TIME:
10:00 AM
SudburyCambrian College, 1400 Barry Downe Rd.
Sudbury, ON, P3A 3V8
Route
Map
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Upcoming Local Events
The Secret Marathon Sep 22
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We are
very excited to announce that The Secret
Marathon will be screening at the Cinefest
@ 11am on Sunday September 22nd at Silver
City.
Run Club – Sunday Sept 22nd at
8:30 am
9.1 km Run from Running Room to Silver
City
Kate and Martin to attend
Everyone who wants to attend can go
in their running gear.
If some do not want to run they can
drive over.
Here is
the link for tickets for The Secret
Marathon at Cinefest at 11.00am Sunday,
Sept. 22nd:
https://bit.ly/2ZcmOQE
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Description
When the
first Afghan woman stood up for her
freedom and ran in the Marathon of Afghanistan,
she started a movement for equality
that spread around the world. Zainab’s
story inspired legendary marathon runner,
Martin Parnell, to imagine what his
life might be like if his gender prevented
him from going outside to run. Martin
vowed to run in the Marathon of Afghanistan
the following year to support Zainab,
and partnered with filmmaker and first
time marathoner, Kate McKenzie, to tell
the story. To avoid making the marathon
a target for terrorist attack, they
must train, and travel to Afghanistan
in secret, where they will uncover unexpected
beauty, incredible hardships, and the
amazing people who stand for change.
This is the story of the brave Afghan
women who are risking it all for the
freedom to run.
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October
6, 2019
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Welcome to CIBC Run for
the Cure in Sudbury
We invite you to run or
walk with us on Sunday, October
6, 2019 for the CIBC Run for the Cure
in Sudbury. Whether it’s your first time, or you’ve
participated for years, we look forward to having you
join the movement! Help make this year’s event inspirational
and memorable, all while you help the Canadian Cancer
Society create a future without breast cancer.
RUN START TIME: 10:00 AM
Sudbury
Cambrian College, 1400 Barry Downe Rd.
Sudbury, ON, P3A 3V8
REGISTER
Contact Information
sudbury@cbcfcloud.org
Team Coordinator
teams_Sudbury@cbcfcloud.org
Volunteer Coordinator
vol_Sudbury@cbcfcloud.org
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Store News
Good afternoon Sudbury Runner's and Walker's,
We have FREE run club Wednesday nights
at 6pm and Sunday mornings at 8:30am.
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Track
North News - by Dick
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LU XC: Tentative Meet Schedule'19
Hey Vees and Supporters,
Here's our tentative competition schedule
for the Fall XC season. We no longer receive funding
for out-of-province races, so we'll do the Waterloo
Open race this year instead of the Geneseo meet.
Western International - London
Fri Sep 20:
? Bus arrives on campus at 11:30 PM,
? Departs: 12:00 Noon,
? Arrives at hotel by 9:00 PM
Sat Sept 21:
? Pickup at 7:45 AM,
? Drop off at course at 8:40 AM
? Races at 10:00 AM and 10:50 AM
? Departs: 1:00 PM,
? Arrives on campus by 9:30 PM
Waterloo Open - Waterloo
Fri Oct 4:
? Bus arrives on campus at 12:45 PM,
? Departs: 1:15 PM,
? Arrives at hotel by 8:30 PM
Sat Oct 5:
? Pickup at 8:00 AM,
? Drop-off at course at 8:30 AM,
? Races at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM
? Departs course at 12:30 PM,
? Arrives on campus by 8:30 PM
Marauder Invitational - Hamilton
Thurs Oct 10:
? Bus arrives on campus at 12:30 PM,
? Departs: 1:00 PM,
? Arrives at hotel by 8:00 PM
Fri Oct 11:
? Pickup at Noon,
? Drop-off at course at 12:30 PM,
? Races at 2:30 and 3:15 PM
? Departs course by 5:15 PM,
? Arrives on campus by 11:30 PM
OUA Championships - Hamilton
Friday Oct 25:
? Bus arrives on campus at 7:30 AM,
? Departs: 8:00 AM,
? Arrives at hotel by 5:30 PM
Sat Oct 26:
? Pickup at 8:45 AM,
? Drop-off at course at 9:15 AM,
? Races at 11:00 AM and 12:00 Noon
? Departs course by 2:00 PM,
? Arrives on campus by 9:30 PM
USPORT CHAMPIONSHIPS - Kingston
Thur Nov 7:
? Bus arrives on campus at 11:30 AM,
? Departs at 12:00 Noon,
? Arrives at hotel by 8:00 PM
Fri Nov 8:
? Bus drives to course at 2:45 PM,
? Returns by 5:00 PM
Sat Nov 9:
? Pickup at 11:00 AM,
? Drop-off at course at 11:30 AM,
? Races at 1:00 and 2:00 PM
? Depart course at 3:30 PM,
? Arrive on campus by Midnight.
Dick
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Dick Moss, Head Coach
Laurentian XC/Track Team
c/o Coach Moss <pedigest@cyberbeach.net>
Web: http://laurentianxctrack.com
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