By Leslie Ann
We had a great turnout for the STARR Canada day run today. Fifteen runners and walkers headed out on the Galloping Goose to participate in some low key Canada Day celebrations. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and have a chance to chat and catch up. We avoided the airport chaos by bringing some fabulous cross Canada events to Sooke - in person racing on home soil. Brought to Sooke exclusively for STARR were the Saskatchewan Marathon, the PEI Marathon and the NS Valley Harvest marathon.
Taking on the Saskatchewan half marathon were Scott, Robin, Tory, Claude and Andy. Scott led the pack for the whole distance, aiming to beat 1:50. He finished with 1:50:02 - 3 seconds behind his goal but a personal best nevertheless. Complements of the Saskatchewan Marathon, all runners in this distance, took home a Saskatchewan marathon shirt. (https://www.facebook.com/saskmarathon/)
Nova Scotia's agricultural centre is the Annapolis Valley. Their fall marathon weekend includes a popular 10k race which we featured for our 10k runners - Jenny, Ken, Jackie, Maggie, Jim B. and Steve K. (https://www.facebook.com/VHMarathon/). Jim took the lead early on a kept it right to the end.
Another popular Canadian east coast marathon weekend is the PEI marathon (https://www.facebook.com/peimarathon/). It features a number of races including 5k to full marathon. Our 5k runners and walkers learned about that race along with the Saskatchewan 5k. It was wonderful to see Melanie C, Donna H, Justin and Leslie Ann participating. Kari managed 8k. Melanie led the pack and stayed on to cheer in our 5k and 10k participants. .
Congrats to all of our runners and walkers.
Our next event is the Elk Lake destination run on August 6th.
