Salmon Arm Observer Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Running wild
Marathoners make mark in Vancouver
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Denali Forsyth, followed by her father Kevin, are among the 200 participants in the two-kilometre category of the Wild Soles Run held Monday evening at the Park Hill Trails in Canoe
The BMO Vancouver Melanie Mobbs and Rob Marathon saw some local Lacheur. competitors do incredibly In the half marathon, Pewell. ter Robertson was fourth in Matt Mead made his the Male 60-64 category. marathon debut with an Other local competitors impressive 42nd overall in the half-marathon event (out of 4,500 competitors) were: Lauren Koch, Chris with a time of Welder, Clay 2:50:41, and Welder, Marifourth place in etjie Du Pleshis 35-39 age sis, Jaci Camcategory. bidge, Jan Duncan Kehl, Derek Morris won Woodhurst, his age cateReid Findlay, gory 65-69 in Sherry Lucas, the half marLorne Lucas, Matt Mead athon with Trina Bolduc, 1:41:11. Chris Ivany, MARATHON The 25th Karla Ivany DEBUT annual event and John was held on a Pickard. rainy, wet and cold May 4 Nearly 16,500 runners morning. from 50 countries regisThere was plenty of tered to participate in the representation from Salm- four events over the race on Arm. Other Salmon weekend. Arm competitors in the This was a record nummarathon event were Mi- ber of competitors for the chael Ogloff, Kyle Ralph, event.
Sun runners post solid times There was an amazing turnout of runners from the Shuswap at last weekends Vancouver Sun Run. Salmon Arm participants were as follows: Matt Mead, Paul Sutherland, Chelsea Kaasa , Sean Fraser, Elijah Fraser, Rick Peters, Megan Adams, Amy Gervais, Cur-
tis Bellows, Tracey Bellows, Jong Ae Han, Sarah De Walle, Julia Capostinsky, Susan Cawsey, Kim Mead, Elaine Warner, Ed De Walle, Judy Deringer, Dale Kinnee, Chris Hagglov, Flynn Johnson, Lila Bagg, Lisa Garnham, Jeannine McDonald, Christina Maru-
siak, Susan Martin, Doug Revel, Betty Cosens, Monja Jespersen, Paula Christensen, Lee Pierrard, Doug Adams, Jessica Deraine, Mary Hamilton, Geene Pohoral, Susan Johnson, Kim Kinnee, Cary Lentz, Bob Bagg, Tammy Young, Melinda Smyrl, Betty Voth, Nan Bibby,
At the Kamloops Boogie, Chantel Jeffrey got caught in a crowd at the start but managed to pull away and scored a first-place finish in the women’s fivekilometre event. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
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