Weekend Race Highlights
August 19th, 2019

Last weekend a few races took place in NB and Atlantic Canada.

The first race that took place was the Run for Renee 5k in Quispamsis, NB. Run for Renee is a series of 5km races that began in 2016 to commemorate the life of Renee Strowbridge who passed away from kidney disease. All the funds raised from this event for to the Kidney Foundation. At the most recent Run for Renee 5km race (Auguest 18^th) there were 24 participants. The top three male runners were James Murphy in a time of 16:09, Jeff Queen in a time of 16:49 and Justin Young in a time of 17:18. The top three female runners were Summer Duchesneau in a time of 23:01, Diane Sharpe in a time of 23:09 and Marin MacPherson in a time of 24:05. Congratulations!

The second race that took place was the August Mile in Miramichi, NB on August 18^th. This year there were 45 participants in this event. The top three performances on the mens side were Kip Jackson in an impressive time of 5:02, Marc Joncas in a time of 5:14 and Sylvain Arseneau in a time of 5:15. On the womens side the top three performances were Shannon Cable in a quick time of 5:31 (finishing 4^th overall), Paula Keating in a time of 5:45 and Amy Barrieau in a time of 6:24.

Another huge event that took place this weekend was the Capes 100 event in Spencers Island, Nova Scotiaon August 17^th. This was the first ever 100-mile event to take place in Atlantic Canada. There were three distances to choose from at this event, either 50km, 100km or 160km. There were 227 total finishers in all three events, 81 females and 141 male, of which several were from NB:

NB Runners in the 50km race:

-Renee Julien: 5:23.36

-Krista Koval: 5:26.40

-Schelly MacKinnon: 5:42.53

-Mike Davis: 5:50.50

-Catherine Hirbour: 6:03.31

-France Hach: 6:47.16

-Ron Cormier: 7:42.32

-Daniel Boyd: 8:10.45

-Nicholas Landry: 8:30.45

-Kourtney Rice: 8:33.44

-Ken Washburn: 9:02.22

NB Runners in the 100km race:

-Jean-Sebastien Levesque: 11:47:10

-Heidi McLellan: 12:50:46

-Mathieu Leblanc: 15:35:11

-Julien Gallant: 17:24:14

-Jolane Sorge: 18:02:25

-Don Charlton: 18:17:18

-Daniel Rice: 18:59:18

-Daren Swinemer: 22:22:32

-Wayne Gallant: 29:12:50

NB Runners in the 160Km race:

-Derek Lounder: 24:56:00

-Collin McQuade: 25:59:40

-Jerry Pugh: 27:38:32

-Luc Leblanc: 29:16:29

-Duane Olsen: 29:16:30

-Patrick Lacelle: 30:33:43

-Kevin Leblanc: 31:01:47

-Brune Hache: 31:16:18

-Brian Head: 32:37:58

-Derek MacIntyre: 32:46:12

-Fred Mason: 33:08:54

-Jeremy Fowler: 34:16:18

Congratulations to everyone for these accomplishments!

Photo courtesy of Maritime Runner.