1. 2021 S.F.C. Crowley Crawl Open Water Registration Open
2. Olympics are Underway
3. Laurentian University Rower Carling Zeeman in Tokyo
4. Natasha Wodak is Going to the Olympics. Here’s Her 7 Tips for Your Running.
5. Logan Spicer Wins Medals at the Ontario U20 Track & Field Championships
6. Photos This Week
7. Upcoming Events: August 7 Sudbury Camino, August 8 Bush Pig Open, August 14-15 Conquer the Crater, August 22 SFC Crowley Lake Open Water Swim
8. Running Room Run Club Update: 
9. Track North
   

Hello Everyone, Welcome to this year's Sudbury Fitness Challenge swim event. There will be two distances available this year 1500m and 500m. The 1500m will have a points multiplier of 1000 and the 500m will be 500 points. See our page at www.sudburyrocks.ca for more details on how the point scoring works for the series. Social distancing guidelines will be in effect for this event and parking is quite limited at the site. As such, registration will be limited to 60 participants this year so don't wait to sign up! You don't even have to declare your distance until race day. The race will be an interval start format. There will be 2 waves of 30 swimmers, with a swimmer starting every 60 seconds within the waves. The waves will start 90 minutes apart. Wave 1 starts at 9am and Wave 2 starts at 10:30am. (NOTE: If Covid guidelines allow, these start times may be condensed to group block start times) Payment or questions can be sent to: Beatonclassic@hotmail.ca

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Carling Zeeman started rowing in 2009 while at Laurentian University… Her first time in a boat was at 5:30 am on Lake Ramsay in Sudbury and she questioned whether it was possible to row 2km at a full sprint while staying afloat the entire race; she was hooked on the challenge to overcome her initial inability.

Since that tentative foray into the sport she has gone on to a being a special force in the rowing community.

from Wikipedia: She competed at several World cups, international events, along with the 2015 Pan American Games.[4] Zeeman is a former world championships silver medallist in the women's quadruple sculls event.[5] More recently she won gold in the women's single sculls at World Rowing Cup I regatta in Varese, Italy, and a silver at the 2017 World Rowing Cup 3 regatta in Lucerne Switzerland.[2] [6]

In June 2016, she was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[7] At the 2016 Summer Olympics Carling placed 10th.

In June 2021, Zeeman was named to her second Olympic team.

Carling has reached the semi finals in the Women's single sculls by placing 2nd in both her qualifying heats. Her Wednesday event has been rescheduled to Thursday pm Tokyo time due to weather. It will be televised on CBC tonight, Wednesday at 7:30pm. We wish her well.

Few runners in the history of our sport have had the track record of Natasha Wodak, Canada’s former 10,000metre record-holder and a 2016 Canadian Olympian. This summer, Wodak is returning to the Olympics to compete in the marathon and her running style, and esteemed Canadian coach Lynn Kanuka, have added years to the 39-year-old’s extraordinary career. Here’s seven ways you can run like—but never quite as quickly as—Natasha Wodak.

The women’s race is scheduled for Aug. 7, and the men will run on Aug. 8, the final day of Olympic competition.

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           Natasha's Seven

1. Keep your head up.

“Sometimes I tilt left or right or look straight down, but that’s generally not want you want. The key is that you’re not tense—if you’re clenching your jaw, something’s not right.”

2. Avoid the grimace.

“I tend to grimace when I’m hurting. Keep everything relaxed—always be tall and leaning slightly forward (but don’t hurt yourself, lol).”

3. Deep breaths.

“That’s a big thing and helps you reorganize when you start to struggle. Breathe in right from your stomach and your pelvis. Take a few breathes and reset—remind yourself that you’ll be alright.”

4. Positive affirmations.

“We can do this. We got this. Time to work.” I repeat those things. Believe them.

5. 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2.

“That’s what I’m thinking, quick feet, arms tucked into your body. Think of the Kenyans. Their arms are so close to their body, so efficient. And it’s funny, when you think of these things, you’re distracted from the pain. Concentrate on one foot in front of the other and breathing in and settling down: 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2. It’s a rhythm.”

6. “Engage your core.”

“My pelvis is what goes first for me, things start to hurt in my glutes. When you engage your core, it’s locking in lots of moving parts and that’s where Lynn and I have really been working. Your core helps add stability in the pelvis. Working my core has made me feel more efficient—and faster.”

7. “Don’t panic.”

“Plenty of workouts and even races go sideways, where it gets tough, where it hurts. But Lynn would say, ‘Giddy, up! It’s tough. It’s supposed to be tough!’ When you realize that it hurts and that doesn’t mean something’s wrong it helps you relax. Sometimes, it’s the truth.”

Sudbury’s Logan Spicer competed at theAthletics Ontario U20 Track and Field Championships in Toronto onthe weekend, returning with 2 silver medals and a 5th placefinish.

Competing for Track North Athletic Club, Spicer won a silver medalin the 100m dash, running a wind-legal personal best 10.85 secondsin the heats and 10.87 in the finals. He is now one of a selectfew Sudbury athletes to have broken the 11.0 second mark in the100m event.

Spicer followed with a silver medal in the long jump with a leapof 6.58m, then a 5th place finish in the high jump, with a heightof 1.90m.

A graduate of Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School, Spicer will attendthe University of Guelph in September.

May 31, 2021 Sudbury Star Article about Logan Spicer
https://www.thesudburystar.com/sports/local-sports/that-sudbury-sports-guy-spicer-combines-power-of-potential-positivity

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July 23 Laurentian Beaver dam

July 23 Moonrise over Ramsey in the haze

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July 28 Moonlight poleline trail

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