Noble & Miller Nautilus Runners Of The Year

Congratulations to Eugene Noble and Janelle Miller who were named the Nautilus Runners Of The Year and the club's AGM last night.

Both runners had solid seasons racing at home and abroad, excellent participation in group runs throughout the year, and both volunteered their time supporting club events and the running community overall.

Ryan Runs Knickerbocker 60K

Running in his 8th ultra of the year and just 3 weeks after running the New York City Marathon, Michael Ryan of Marystown completed the NYRR Kickerbocker 60K last Saturday in a time of 6 hours 23 minutes.

The course is 9 loops around Central Park!

Liam's Race Report

Read this race report excerpt from Liam Delaney on the antics from a recent race!

Hi NL RUNNING Things are great! I am off to cross country nationals on Saturday! I've had an eventful year no doubt about that! I had a lot of consistent results early in the season, and then they started to improve later, I worked very hard right up until OFSAA.

It was a race I'll never forget, nor do I want to. I started the race like any other and 200m in lost my shoe... and with 200 bodies behind me pushing me forward I couldn't stop to get it. I continued on, and ran the whole 7km cross country with one single shoe, now unlucky enough for me the race was based on chip timing and I had lost the shoe with my chip on it. Then my luck turned around, a volunteer handed me my shoe in the final 100m for me to smack it on the mat to bring in an 83rd out of 262 participants finishing 3rd out of 5 on my team.

I then had to do 4 half hour sessions of laser therapy, to re-build the tissue in my foot, I was after bruising my heel bone and my plantar faschis (sp?). I was happy with the result considering!

I ran another provincial meet the next weekend, OTFA's, and finished 57th out of about 140. I then had to do 1 more session of laser. After all this I ran last weekend at an indoor meet in Ottawa taking the first 5 laps easy and planning to race the last mile. I came in with a time of 9:25 a full 14 seconds better then the 9:39 I ran this past summer. I plan to go out hard at Nationals, and see where it gets me.

Cheers, Liam.

Brockerville Strong In Washington

Ryan Brockerville placed 39th at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships in Vancouver Washington last Saturday. There were 323 runners in this American National 5-mile race. Brockerville completed the course in 25.59 just 33 seconds out of the top 10.

Cross Country Nationals This Weekend

Good luck to Kate Vaughan, Peter Bazeley, Colin Fewer and Grant Handrigan at this weekend's Cross Country National Championships in Guelph.

UPDATE: Liam Delaney will also be racing.

2010 Road Race Schedule

Your Road Race Committee has met and hammered out a proposed race schedule for 2010 subject to approval by the NLAA at next week's AGM.

All events have been added to the NL Running calendar HERE. If you have an event that should be on this calendar drop a note to admin@nlrunning.com.

PB For Hayward At Whitby 5K

Local runner Mark Hayward ran a PB of 16:55 to place 4th at the Whitby 5Km Road Race on Sunday.

Mark is attending Trent University and was on their Cross Country Team this Fall.

Happy Third NL Running

Today marks 3 years and growing for NL Running ... thanks to all readers, subscribers and contributors!

Nautilus Inn Of Olde Dash December 11

The Nautilus Running Club invites all NL Runners to join them for the annual Nautilus Inn of Olde Christmas Dash on Friday December 11 at 5:30pm.

Run one way from the Aquarena to the Quidi Vidi Inn of Olde (5.8k route HERE), enjoy a warm fire and a bowl of soup at the Inn.

And be sure to tuck a few bucks in your sock for a beverage or two and a taxi home.

Jingle Bell Run This Sunday November 22

Don't forget this Sunday's Jingle Bell Run & Walk in support of the Arthritis Society. Click HERE for details on the event near you.

In St.John's you can register tonight Thursday from 7-9pm at the Running Room Churchill Square.

BikeShare Repair Shop Launch & Movie Premier

MUN BikeShare is introducing a Repair Shop and screening the premier of the movie Veer on Monday November 30 7pm in the MUN Engineering Building.

More info HERE.

COPD Virtual Trek Across Canada

Take part in The Lung Association's Coast 2 Coast Challenge, a virtual trek across Canada to raise awareness of the serious breathing disease COPD.

Just keep track of the distance you exercise(d) from November 1- 18th and report HERE. Any kind of exercise counts - walking, running, swimming, cycling, you name it. You can track your progress in minutes, kilometers, miles and steps.

Travel virtually across Canada and help raise awareness for COPD and celebrate the efforts of COPD patients and supporters.

Loeffler Speaking For Joints In Motion

The NL Division of the Arthritis Society is pleased to present a talk with T.A. Loeffler on the prospect of going to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Everest is one of several Joints In Motion destinations offered in the coming year.

T.A. will be at The Outfitters 220 Water Street Monday November 16 at 7pm. RSVP by email to afox@nl.arthritis.ca or call 579.8190.

Register Now For Hypothermic Half

Online registration is now open for the 2010 Hypothermic Half Marathon set for Sunday February 7.

This event always sells out so avoid disappointment and REGISTER NOW.