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Saturday Aug 28, 2010 #
Running 1:15:00 [2]
Run up King Mountain and then some Skyline thrown in with Freddy.
Stopped off at Euro-Sport Canada on the way home to talk to Duncan, some good expensive stuff there. And Rossi stuff as well.
Stopped off at Euro-Sport Canada on the way home to talk to Duncan, some good expensive stuff there. And Rossi stuff as well.
Note
Brendan Shields posted something silly about Canadian Champions being afraid of getting their feet wet due to the COF uncrossable rule (which I think makes perfect sense).
Here are my top five toughest Canadian Champions; order doesn't matter much, and I'm sure I'm forgetting people.
5. Brian Graham - back when I was in shape I was running together with BG in a B meet in the south part of the Gats. I dropped him on a trail, we get to a woods section and leaves me behind instantly. This is total ice-storm damaged Gats and he can fly through the woods.
4. Ross Burnett - a tough Northern guy who won't put up with much, be it trees or whomever else. I would put Benoit Latourneau in this category as a hard-man from the Quebec woods who has two levels of intensity: on or off (see also Duca, Nick)
3. Mike Smith - dude runs in the woods with a snarl and I remember as a junior actually hearing Mike yell whilst crashing through green. This is what happens when you grow up running through "open woods" in NB. Mike also strangely has my Dad's exact running style; I noticed it again at the end of the Middle last week
2. Ted de St. Croix - you need to be tough to carry around all those COC medals. Watching Tedro finish any race and you know that he's left all he has on the course (Hammer is the same way).
1. Pam James - rugby player. Green undergrowth versus Pam? Bet everything you have on Pam. Conversation with Pam at the finish: Wow, it was thick woods out there. Pam: oh, I found it fine.
I don't know the 70 and early 80s scene to comment on those, but I wouldn't want to go into a control with Steve Pearson, Russ Evans and especially Gord Hunter.
NOTE: Mark Adams probably should be on this too. What I remember from Mark racing is how calm he always looked, especially at the finish. Others are swearing and getting stressed out, Mark is looking cool. He also always had a beard which makes everyone look tough.
Here are my top five toughest Canadian Champions; order doesn't matter much, and I'm sure I'm forgetting people.
5. Brian Graham - back when I was in shape I was running together with BG in a B meet in the south part of the Gats. I dropped him on a trail, we get to a woods section and leaves me behind instantly. This is total ice-storm damaged Gats and he can fly through the woods.
4. Ross Burnett - a tough Northern guy who won't put up with much, be it trees or whomever else. I would put Benoit Latourneau in this category as a hard-man from the Quebec woods who has two levels of intensity: on or off (see also Duca, Nick)
3. Mike Smith - dude runs in the woods with a snarl and I remember as a junior actually hearing Mike yell whilst crashing through green. This is what happens when you grow up running through "open woods" in NB. Mike also strangely has my Dad's exact running style; I noticed it again at the end of the Middle last week
2. Ted de St. Croix - you need to be tough to carry around all those COC medals. Watching Tedro finish any race and you know that he's left all he has on the course (Hammer is the same way).
1. Pam James - rugby player. Green undergrowth versus Pam? Bet everything you have on Pam. Conversation with Pam at the finish: Wow, it was thick woods out there. Pam: oh, I found it fine.
I don't know the 70 and early 80s scene to comment on those, but I wouldn't want to go into a control with Steve Pearson, Russ Evans and especially Gord Hunter.
NOTE: Mark Adams probably should be on this too. What I remember from Mark racing is how calm he always looked, especially at the finish. Others are swearing and getting stressed out, Mark is looking cool. He also always had a beard which makes everyone look tough.
Sunday Aug 22, 2010 #
Orienteering Race race 3:05:21 [4]
Well, the woods were nice.