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      Hello Everyone,                                                                                                                                                                                                             June 3, 2021        

     In this Issue:

     

  1. SudburyROCKS!!! Marathon
  2. Logan Spicer combines the power of potential and positivity
  3. Photos This Week
  4. Upcoming Events:   July 3 - 4 Apex Rush, July 4 Girls Run Sudbury
  5. Running Room Run Club Update: 
  6. Track North

 

 

 

 

SudburyROCKS!!! Marathon

 

Congratulations to all who took part in the 2nd edition of the SudburyROCKS!! Covid Marathon. Based on the photos received to date everyone had rewarding experiences. Thank you for being part of an experience that helps unite our community through exercise and also provides needed support to our recipient charity - the Northern Cancer Foundation.

Ongoing Results are posted here and will be updated daily

Photos are posted here and will be updated daily

etaillefer@hsnsudbury.ca

 

 

 

 

 

Logan Spicer combines the power of potential and positivity
Randy Pascal
2021-06-01

The Guelph Gryphons' track and field program have nabbed themselves one heck of an athlete with the recent commitment of local Logan Spicer to their school.

On the side, they are also gaining a young man with a very healthy outlook on life.

If the pandemic has made it increasingly difficult to assess with accuracy the former skill-set for the grade 12 student at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School and the remainder of the current graduating class, it has also shone a light on the ability for these talented teens to tap into the latter.

“I really try and look at the positives with most things,” said Spicer, a young man who is just itching for the opportunity to strut his stuff as he enrols in the Human Kinetics program at Guelph this fall, already with an eye on post-secondary studies that could extend beyond his undergraduate degree.

“I find that staying positive is the best way to motivate myself and keep training. If anything, the pandemic motivated me more because I know that some people would get demotivated. I knew that I had to keep training as hard as I could. I see this as an opportunity to get really fit and come flying out of the gates next year.”

An all-around athlete who will likely specialize in either the high jump (current PB of 1.96m) or the 100m dash (current PB of 11.05 - “it’s hard to put a number on it, but in a good race, I would like to hit 10.80”), Spicer could have been forgiven for giving in to the frustrations of COVID-19 this time last year.

One week before the pandemic hit, I was in Florida with a track club from down south,” he recalled. “During that camp, my motivation for the sport just shot upwards. I was training like never before.”

 

Not that Spicer ever lacked motivation. Pretty much since the time that he burst onto the local track scene via various Lively elementary schools, the young man who surprised himself by qualifying for the Canadian Legion Track & Field Championships in 2018 in the high jump has been more than willing to put in the work.

Typically, the rewards of those efforts are confirmed in competition. Not in the spring/summer of 2020, however. Not even likely in 2021. And so athletes are left to train - and train and train and train some more.

“I was blessed to do a sport like track where I can pretty much go and run anywhere, and it really doesn’t matter,” rationalized Spicer. “As long as it’s warm enough out, I can run wherever I want. But a lot of coaching wasn’t able to happen during the lockdowns. It was weird not having that coach who was constantly picking away at the technical stuff.”

“It felt like I was working out more based on general fitness than the technical aspect of it.”

Unfortunately, “warm enough” are two words that are seldom used in the same sentence as “Sudbury winters”. With no access to the fieldhouse and indoor track at Laurentian University, Spicer and others simply had to make the best of it.

The young man who would have been given great odds to break the current senior boys 100m dash record of 11.07 (Eric Roque - Spicer ran 11.05 at the Legion District Meet in June of 2019) had a SDSSAA championship been hosted in either 2020 or 2021 was back to counting his blessings.

“Towards the end of my volleyball season (November 2020), I was able to get a treadmill and some weights from family and family acquaintances, which I was thankful for,” he said. “It’s difficult not having access to the facilities.”

“I got a good amount of weightlifting and strength training in, which was still beneficial for a strength-based athlete like myself. I was happy to get that sort of work in.”

Of course, it certainly didn’t hurt that Spicer’s pre-pandemic numbers had already caught the eyes of track coaches across the province, enough to generate some interest. Rest assured that he would love nothing more than to repay the faith of the Gryphons coaching staff in spades, whether the OUA indoor track season is ready to go this winter, or somewhere a little further down the road.

"It’s unfortunate that I lost these opportunities to show what I have,” said Spicer. “I’ve been training my butt off for a year and a half but unable to compete. I’m hoping that when I hit that university stage, I’ll be able to show what I have been training for. I’m looking forward to that, excited to have the opportunity.”

“I know that I am going to have opportunities in the future - hopefully, I will be able to capitalize on them.”

It’s been 18 months or so of relying on those closest to him, family, Track North coaches, teammates, everyone that Logan Spicer realizes is in his corner. Still, he looks beyond that.

“The athletes that I compete against motivate me indirectly,” he suggested. “It’s not even that I necessarily talk to them, but knowing that other athletes are in similar situations to me. That’s what I try and think about, that there’s these other guys that are training just as hard as me, possibly even harder - and that keeps me going.”

Though he is unable to offer tangible proof, with meets and such on hold, Spicer feels stronger. Cautiously optimistic, he acknowledged having at least some numbers that run through his head.

“It’s hard to say with the high jump, just because I haven’t been over a bar in so long,” he said. “I’m really curious to where I am going be at. I’m really not sure, quite honestly, but I’m hoping that I am above 2.0 metres - but it’s really hard to say.”

What he can say, with certainty, is that come September, he will be ready to start the next leg of his journey, at the University of Guelph. And that, if nothing else, is a positive thing - which is what Logan Spicer is really all about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos This Week

May 27 Three Flags run at Moonlight

May 27 Three Flags run

May 27 Moonlight back country

May 27

May 27 Moonlight back country

May 27

May 27 Finlandia

May 27 Finlandia

May 27 Finlandia

May 27 Finlandia

May 27 Finlandia

May 27 Finlandia

May 28 Wanup lilacs by Greg Koett

May 29 Laurentian Lake

May 29 Laurentian Lake

May 30 George Lake lunch break Killarney Park

May 30 Chikanishing Creek trail

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Local Events

 

 July 3 - 4

 

Race 2 is ready to go!

We are excited to take you out to Walden Mountain Bike trails again this year! We are designing a new course for this year, it’s going to be unreal!

The courses:
6 km
12.5 km
25 km (2 laps of the 12.5 km)
Hiking, or running!
This event is for everyone, bring the family out on a fun course.
The 6 km course will have different flagging tape than the 12.5 course. Follow your colour and the arrows

https://raceroster.com/search?q=apex+rush

 

 

 

 

Girls Run Sudbury

Sunday July 4, 2021

 

REGISTRATION IS FINALY OPEN!
https://raceroster.com/events/2021/37036/girls-run-sudbury


Registration will take place from Today May 20th to June 12th to ensure finishers medals and socks for all participants.
Run the event between june 4th and july 4th and upload your results on the Race Roster Event Page.
This year event distance:
2.5 km
5 km
10 km
half marathon
Top 3 categories finishers
under 18 year old
18-30 year old
31-40 year old
41-50 year old
51-60 year old
Registration cost includes:
- registration to next year Girls Run Sudbury event
- training program for beginners to more advance runners
- weekly tips on training component, pre racing and post racing events
- Weekly zoom meeting on certain topic related to training ( participants will be emailed to access the meeting)
- beautifully designed Girls Run Sudbury finisher medals
- a fun unique pair of training socks
- sign up to our lululemon running group on strava to motivate each other during our training
https://www.strava.com/clubs/753579/members?page=2
Let's get active everyone

 

 

 

 

 

 

Run Club Update

 


 

 

Store News

 

Good afternoon Sudbury Runners and Walkers,

 

We have FREE run club Wednesday nights at 6pm and Sunday mornings at 8:30am.


Cancelled until Further Notice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track North News - by Dick Moss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dick Moss, Head Coach
Laurentian XC/Track Team
c/o Coach Moss <pedigest@cyberbeach.net>
Web: http://laurentianxctrack.com
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For information call me.
Vincent Perdue
vtperdue@cyberbeach.net

Proud sponsor of the Sudbury Rocks!!! Race-Run-Walk for the Health of it

ttp://www.sudburyrocksmarathon.com/

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