Monumental Efforts

Monumental Sheppard

by vince March 28, 2010 Faces

“Let’s have a look inside the Tickle Trunk” – Mr. Dressup With another Around the Bay Road Race in the books, Geoff Sheppard has once again pleased thousands of cheering onlookers with another amusing costume.  Every year Shep completes the 30Km course clad in a memorable disguise. In recent years Shep has dressed as an [...]

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Bathurst Phantoms – Tragedy to Triumph

by vince February 17, 2010 Faces

As we prepare our senior boys basketball team (ACMT Jaguars) for the league playoffs and a subsequent push for a fourth consecutive provincial championship, I was reminded of the following heartbreaking yet inspiring story from a couple of years ago and decided to revisit it and share it with others. On January 11th, 2008 the [...]

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The Canadian Death Race – 2009

by Bill February 9, 2010 Community Submitted News

[Editor's Note:  The following post was submitted by community member Ange ] Since now is the time to register for the 2010 Canadian Death Race in Alberta, I thought I would share my story from last years race… happy reading! The Canadian Death Race – 2009 – Angie’s report So the one question that is [...]

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Ray Zahab – Canada’s Karnazes…and more?

by vince February 3, 2010 Faces

“Any limitations that we have are ones that we set upon ourselves” Ultra running is far from being a mainstream sport but once in a while one of these endurance athletes captures the eye of the general public and garners some important media attention.  When my father, a 64-year old non-runner, spoke to me about [...]

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The Back of the Pack in Haliburton Forest

by Bill January 26, 2010 Community Submitted News

[Editor's Note: The following was submitted by community member Clay Williams.] There are a few very quick runners who lead the field, and compete for the podium positions and series titles. As a relatively new Ultra Runner, my responsibility is to fill out the field, and simply try to complete the races with respectable times. [...]

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Marathon Quest 250

by vince January 20, 2010 Faces

Yo, Karnazes!  Check this out! This story appeared in The Hamilton Spectator on New Year’s Eve.  Martin Parnell plans on running the equivalent of 250 marathons in 2010 to raise funds for Right to Play, “a humanitarian organization that uses sport and play programs to improve health, develop life skills and foster peace for children [...]

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H.U.R.T 100: Monumental Canadians

by Bill January 18, 2010 Monumental Efforts

This past weekend’s H.U.R.T.100 Mile Trail Race proved to be very, very successful for Canadian runners. Unless I’m reading the race results incorrectly there were 13 Canadians who started the race. Of those, 7 were 100 Mile finishers and 6 were 100K finishers. According to the official race rules “due to the difficult nature of [...]

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Hoops and a run in Honolulu

by vince January 13, 2010 Monumental Efforts

‘A’OHE PU’U KI’EKI’E KE HO’À’O ‘IA E PI’I (No cliff is so tall it cannot be climbed) – Hawaiian proverb In my professional life, I’m a teacher and guidance counselor at Académie catholique Mère-Teresa in Hamilton.  We are a school of approximately 300 students, but our boys’ basketball team manages to compete with the province’s [...]

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Monica’s 3000+ Mile Odyssey

by vince January 1, 2010 Faces

Ultra runner extraordinaire, Monica Scholz is raising the bar.  In 2001 Monica set a World Record by completing twenty-three 100-mile races in one calendar year.  Oddly some critics and naysayers suggested that this accomplishment wasn’t that remarkable as they felt Monica wasn’t regarded as an elite runner.  Although Monica did not win any of the [...]

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Hawaiian Heroes

by vince December 25, 2009 Monumental Efforts

“Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald I confess.  I’m a surfer wannabe.  As a teenager I started wearing Ocean Pacific clothing even though I had never even seen an ocean let alone ridden her waves.  I currently have a collection of Quicksilver t-shirts and board shorts, [...]

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