Add Life to Your Running

Posted on Jul 30.10 to TRC News

Add Life to your Running

Add Life to your Running

Rejoin the Family

Posted on May 25.10 to TRC News

It’s not too late to rejoin the club…
1. Let Michael B know by email if your email or phone nos. have changed
2. Let Michael know when you’re next coming to a Wednesday run and he’ll bring your new red club tech shirt for rejoining.
3. Bring a cheque for $45 made out to “Toronto Running Club” or cash and give to Sheila Jacobs

And you’re done! If you need to mail the cheque, send to: Sheila Jacobs, 687 Oriole Parkway, TO, M4R 2C1 (and then do #1 and #2 above).

Let’s go to the Mercedes-Benz Oakville 10k, April 25

Posted on Mar 03.10 to TRC News

TRC, here’s the perfect race to enter to gauge the quality of your training. It’s flat and fast through residential Oakville and even has scenic sections by the lake. It provides a technical race shirt, reusable kit bag and very cool finisher medal. But the wonder of this event are the draw prizes, foremost being a Mercedes-Benz B Class car - a free lease for a year! - plus $5000 in additional draw prizes. Your odds of winning a draw prize are much better than winning the race! It’s also a Road Warrior race offering extra prizes and double the series points. www.mercedes10k.com

TRC selling shirts at Harry’s & Sporting Life

Posted on Mar 03.10 to TRC News

Our club will be again be selling T-shirts at two of the Canada Running Series races this spring. It’s a great way to promote the club and earn some money for the club. Thanks to those of you who offered to help sell… Sheila Jacobs, Tehmina Ahmed, Brent Routley and Jody Pin…. 3 will work at Harry’s and we need a couple more for Sporting Life. Any takers? Hopefully the rest of you will be running at Harry’s Spring Run-off and the Sporting Life 10k and will drop into the booth to say hi.

Club Announcements

Posted on Dec 13.09 to TRC News

Congrats to all these milestone reachers:

5-Year Members
Tony Correale
Emad Boctor
Sheila Jacobs
Tony Samson

10-Year Members
Glenn Darras
Nathalie Dash
Rob Gonsalves

15-Year Members
Michael Brennan
John De Venz
Nancy Hamilton
Dan Little
Andy Watson

Certificates Awarded

President’s Award - Tony Samson, For leading the club & welcoming new runners so well over 2 years!

Rookie of the Year Award - Jim Daigneau, For organizing Jays day & participating in most activities.

Energizer Bunny Award - Alan Connors, For running & running & running! You’re an inspiration!

Road Warrior of the Year - Stephen Wallace, For running so many races!

You Light up my Life Award - Paul Epton, Congrats on carrying the Olympic torch in December!

Volunteer of the Year - Peter Kain, For participating and assisting in so many club activities

Distinguished Volunteer 5 yrs - Teresa Godin, For 5 years of volunteering on the Exec and with events

Back in the Saddle Award - Eugene Pruski, For getting back into running

Most Likely UP about being down under - Bob Glazier, For outstanding efforts at the Australia World Masters Games

Golden Girl Award - Nancy Hamilton,
For numerous medal wins at Dragonboat Worlds

Funeral for Ted Dash

Posted on Aug 02.09 to TRC News

Dash

It still doesn’t register that Ted Dash - long time member of both the Toronto Running Club and XSNRG Running Club - will not be running with Nathalie and the rest of us anymore. If you’re just hearing about this for the first time, Ted passed away Friday, July 31st from complications arising from a virus that led to a stroke, medically induced coma, kidney failure and more. Our hearts go out to Nathalie, Ted’s wife of just one year but partner of 10 years.

Ted and Natalie at the Powerbar 5k

A short service will be held to remember and honor Ted Dash Saturday August 8th at 3pm. There’s an earlier visitation from 1 to 3 pm. All are welcome to the North York Y at Bayview/Sheppard after the 3pm funeral for food & refreshment. There will be no body at the funeral home, just his ashes.

The service will be at 3pm at The Simple Alternative Funeral Centre, 275 Lesmill Rd. Toronto. Tel: 416-441-1580. This is in the 401-Leslie St. Area.

For directions, visit http://www.thesimplealternative.ca/our_locations/toronto.asp

There is no visitation at the Funeral Centre on Thursday or Friday, only Saturday from 1-3pm.

Remembering Ted

One of our favorite stories about Ted happened at the Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon a couple years ago when then, MDRC, was volunteering at the water station at Lakeshore and Sherbourne.  The station was spread out over a hundred meters for the 10,000 runners expected in a huge crush.  Ted was standing near the Elite water bottle table keeping an eye on things as the first few Kenyans whipped by.  Ted was impressed by their speed and how similar it was to his own!

stephen ted john bob

The 4th or 5th place runner, a Kenyan, came speeding along and grabbed at his water bottle on the Elite table but didn’t get a grip on it and knocked it off the table. Ted watched it all unfold as if in a trance then suddenly made a decision, lunged for the bottle and started sprinting to catch the Kenyan.  Over 50 volunteers stopped what they were doing to witness the drama unfolding… an amateur Caucasian runner, twice the age of the Kenyan he was chasing, attempting to catch a 2:12 marathoner.  No one would have bet on Ted catching the Kenyan but he did. His heavy footsteps startled the Kenyan who thought a rival was catching him.

No, it was just Ted Dash, doing the Ted Blast over 125 meters of people cheering him on. His face was red, his cheeks were puffed and on his last gasp he thrust the water bottle into the face of the surprised but thankful Kenyan. Ted’s foolhardy but heroic action impressed all!  We’re not sure why he disappeared for a while but we suspect he needed a snooze after his ‘feet’!

Ted was a member of our running club for 11 years and during that time helped out at events, most notably as a volunteer at water stations the club coordinated for the Waterfront Marathon or Toronto Marathon.  He was a frequent volunteer at the Mad Dog Scramble too, nipping at the heels of runners as they passed him.  If Nathalie wasn’t running in the event, she was there with him to hear his silliness and to see his antics.

Ted and Nathalie

Ted was personable, full of life, encouraging and had a good sense of humor. At our last count he had completed 13 marathons but may have slipped a few more in when we weren’t looking.  Over the 10 years of his relationship with Nathalie they attended many dozens of races together.

So long Ted, it’s been great to know you.

Michael Brennan

Mar. 23

Posted on Mar 30.09 to TRC News

Photos of Club Members
We’ve been asked by you to use more photos of club members at work (running) and play in newsletters and on the website.  
So if you have a couple photos of yourself or even if others are in the photos, want to send them. We’re trying to compile profiles on everyone in the club. We’ll take shots of members at runs over the next few weeks plus I’ll remind you in the next newsletters for photos. Then soon we’ll send a question sheet asking for personal running info and more that people are comfortable sharing with other members to go along with the photos. Will likely make this info available to members only by means of special club website access and password.
 
Send:
1. Recent (or past year or two) photos of you (send even 2-3 photos)… doesn’t matter what you’re doing in the photos but that your face shows
2. a photo of you as an infant or toddler (we’ll use this at a future social)
 
Race Results
March 15th, 3000 meters indoors at Toronto Track and Field Centre, mini-meet #4,
    Doug Piercey: 13:52, 1st in age group, 9th overall
Bob the Correspondent
“I am sending this live from the US Indoor Masters T & F championships in Landover, Maryland near Washington. Am here to promote the World’s Masters Games in Sydney, Australia. Have watched some amazing T & F including Joan Benoit (Olympic Marathon Champion 1984) who at 51 broke the American 3000 metres record.
Also saw Henry Rono run in the 55/59 Mile. He only came 5th.
Earl Fee, our Canadian champion master, won his 75/79 400 metre race in 1 min. 13 sec (Doug Piercey, you could be a medal winner here in this event!)
Great track, great atmosphere and great spectator support.” 
Bob Glazier.

Mar. 9

Posted on Mar 09.09 to TRC News

Birthday ‘Kid’
We are pleased to announce that Tony Correale, TRC member, turns 50, FIVE O, today, March 9th!  Congratulations to Tony who, to celebrate his day, will down a bottle of Labatt’s 50, do 50 pushups, eat 50 jujubes and run 50 km.  Better you than us. Happy day!
 
Other birthdaykids
O’Neill Mirian Mar. 10
GARNER JIM Mar. 13
Bizzotto Andrea Mar. 14

Feb. 23

Posted on Mar 05.09 to TRC News

Welcome New Member
You’ve seen him, run with him, dined with him, now you can show him the secret club handshake… Welcome Sydney Stupp, newest member of TRC!  He’s a veteran of a few triathlons, lots of 10ks and a half marathon. Because he’s younger than Sid Finkelstein, we’re going to have to refer to him as Syd the Kid.  But he prefers Sydney (listen, Sydney the Kidney just doesn’t have the same ring to it).
Race Results

Feb 22 - Grimsby Half Marathon
             Stephen Wallace, 2:01

 

Mar. 2

Posted on Mar 05.09 to TRC News

Club Running Clothing
Extra technical Running Clothes with the club logo on them are available…
  1. Men’s Long sleeve ‘Fast Forward’ tech top… $55: color: Black, sizes Med. (fits Michael B for example)
  2. Men’s Long sleeve midweight zip-T tech top… $45 … color: Black, size Med. (fits Michael B for example)
  3. Men’s ‘Breeze’ running jacket… $67 … color: Coal (gray), size L……. or color: Maui Blue, size M
  4. Women’s Long sleeve ‘Fast Forward’ tech top… $55: color: Oceanic (blue), sizes Medium (fits Teresa and Nancy Hamilton, for example) and Large (fits Sheila Jacobs, for example)
  5. Women’s ‘Breeze’ running jacket… $67 … color: Oceanic (blue), size Small

Race Results

Club Members at the Ch-ch-chilly Half, Burlington, Mar. 1
    Jamie Black, 1:25
    Laurel Brooks, 1:43,  3rd in W50-54

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