Who is the top Running Club in Canada

Tough to do.

The first two examples appeal more to being a measure of how 'top' a running club is, rather than your third example.

There are going to be those who will argue it's all legal.

Legal to recruit? Yes. Fair to other club members who want to be on a club team? No!

So much for that thread, which had such promise of providing an up-do-date National Road and Cross Ranking,

for those people who actually care about the Sport.

Welcome to letsrun, ronb.

ronb wrote:

So much for that thread, which had such promise of providing an up-do-date National Road and Cross Ranking,

for those people who actually care about the Sport.

Yes, I guess I never learn what tiny minds creep around under the cover of anonymity, and poison our Sport...

Anyways...

The Island Road Rankings - Sept 1-16/2006.

No last names or clubs included, so no one gets offended.

My own cutoff standards in place, because I haven't heard from anyone else, other than negative num-nuts....

No tenths of seconds included....

5K (cutoffs = sub 17 - open men, sub 18 - over 40 men,

sub 19 - open women, sub 20 - over 40 women)

steve 14:44

jim 15:50

todd 15:50

paul 15:51 (40 +)

arturo 16:33 (40 +)

ased 16:41

jesse 16:56

darren 17:20 (40 +)

gord 17:30 (40 +)

phil 17:32 (40 +)

10K (cutoffs = sub 33 - open men, sub 35 - over 40 men,

sub 39 - open women, sub 41 - over 40 women)

ryan 30:11

steve 31:12

kris 32:18

graham 32:22

nick 32:48

ian 32:54

marilyn 36:39

nancy 38:24

1/2 marathon (cutoffs = 1:15 - men, 1:21 - over 40 men)

1:25 - women, 1:32 - over 40 women)

jon 1:07.28

jerry 1:07.50

jim 1:08.22

david 1:08.45

mark 1:13.19

todd 1:13.31

paul 1:14.45

david 1:17.44 (40 +)

don 1:20.20 (40 +)

lucy 1:15.03

nancy 1:23.45 (40 +)

rita 1:25.24 (40 +)

Races include Songhees 5 K, Nanaimo 1/2 // 10 K,

Landsend 1/2 // 10 K, Tour de Roc 5 K.

Corrections / additions appreciated --- please do not include the Club Name....Thanks....Can U feel the luv??

Comox Valley Road Runners

cvrr.ca

I love our club, of which I've been a member for 20 years. We have many group runs and sessions, for different levels and goals, we do several events a year, and we conduct a clinic every year for all abilities. I cannot count the number of people over the years who began running at the clinic and went on to change their lives. Some other clubs do not welcome these kinds of people - straight off the couch. They should!

So in that respect, I think we are "tops". :)

Missed one in the 1st cut of the rankings...

1/2 marathon

rob 1:18.27 (40 +)

ronb wrote:

I haven't heard from anyone else, other than negative num-nuts....

Excellent use of alliteration. Do remember the silent B in "numb", however.

Abbotsford B.C. has one very good club coached by

Bowerman clone Myron Neville.

Deerfoot Athletic Club sent 6 athletes to the Canadian

Championships last year; they came home with over 12 medals

in distances ranging from 200 meters to 5k. Middle distance

is their focus.

Yes the "b" was both silent and MIA...:)

We all feel pride in our various clubs, and with good reasons ..... there are so many wonderful, mostly volunteer, coaches, officials, administrators in our Sport.

These people are such an amazing part of the framework of our Sport from the Grassroots to the Elite, and everything in between...Good on you all !!!

In the meantime, I look forward to hearing about the top road performances from other parts of this Land...

First names only, no club recognition allowed, because God forbid, we should give credit where credit is due..

Vancouver Falcons Athletic Club, VFAC

Definitely the strongest club in Vancouver.

Club members have won over 30 races this season

2 members went to the 2006 World Mountain Running Champs

Some of the top female and male masters runners in Canada (2005 top masters female marathoner 2:53 and 2006 5th ranked national male marathoner 2:28)

Great coach, who was one of Canada's best runners in the early 80s, and puts on the toughest workouts in Stanley Park

so, where exactly IS credit due when athletes who train in far away places under far away coaches are 'bought', wear the club colours, and the club goes 'look at us, we are the bestest and the mostest'?;

ronb wrote:

In the meantime, I look forward to hearing about the top road performances from other parts of this Land...

First names only, no club recognition allowed, because God forbid, we should give credit where credit is due..

The current members of PIH, need I say more? Visit PIHdotCA to find the complete history of the best running club in Canada, which only gets better every year, especially when certain numbnutses are weeded out and cannot fight back uncowardly.

Aitken, Allyson Allen, Stuart Anderson, Sandy

Auburn, Sandy Bachop, Steve Bahrey, Karen

Ball, Garth Ballantyne, Joyce Barr, Steve

Bassett, Shirley Bastedo, Sandra Batista, Rui

Baxendale, Nancy Beck, Art Begg, Sandi

Benn, Graeme Benn, Karl Bennett, Marcy

Bentham, Camie Bhandar, Buddy Bonner, Ken

Bostrom, Robert Bowden, Lori Bowker, Ron

Bozek, Bertrand Brown, Jon Brown, Randy

Brownhill, Craig Callendar, Chris Cantwell, Lisa

Cantwell, Walter Carlson, Shalane Carroll, Eileen

Carter, Anita Carter, Rumon Castillo, Carlos

Catterall, John Chan, Brent Charles, Dave

Christie, Gord Christopher, Paul Clavier, Ludovic

Cocksedge, Graham Colegrave, Mark Connelly, Tina

Connon, Brian Corbett, Tracy Cornforth, Phil

Cowell, Simon Cracknell, Robbie Craib, Heather

Craib, Ian Craig, Martina Croden, Sheldon

Cronk, Adena Dale, Phyllis Darke, James

Davies, Wendy Davis, Nancy Louise Day, Meghan

De La Mare, Doug Deacon, Bruce Deacon, Rosemary

Denby, Pat Dennis, David Dennis, Dianne

Denny, Susan DePol, Chad DePol, Diana

Dobbie, Linda Dolan, Norman Doyle, Doug

Dreher, Wilf Drysdale, Christine Drysdale, Philip

Dublin, Brian Dunbar, Lisa Duncan, Gary

Ehle, Dan Elliott, Carol Emerson, Mike

Etcheverry, Gerry Fifield, Steven Findlay, Eric

Finlayson, Jim Fisher, Marie Fisher, Wayne

Fraser, Dan Fry, Karen Galbraith, Andrew

Galbraith, Elaine Garrett-Petts, Chris Gilgunn, Christine

Gillett, Aaron Green, Andrew Gregory, Doug

Griffiths, Felice Guyader, Jacqueline Haagensen, Jytte

Hallam, Anna Claire Hallam, Ian Hallam, Niklas

Hallam, Sisi Hansen, Ulla Harlow, Dan

Harlow, Merell Harris, Michelle Harrison, Rebecca

Harrison, Sarah Hawe, Jill Hawkes, Bruce

Heal, Sandi Healy, Todd Hemeon, Shannon

Herron, John Herron, Lindsay Herron, Lori

Herron, Nicole Hill, Lisa Hillsden, Bill

Hirayama, Isao Hissen, Carolyn Hollemans, Peter

Horeth, Jeff Horner, Cory Hoskins, David

Howard, Todd Howley, Seamus Hucal, Jackie

Hucal, Mike Huerta, Arturo Hughes, Karen

Huzzey, Megan Ireland, Charlie Jackson, David

Janicki, Bob Janicki, Camille Janicki, Gabrielle

Janicki, Madeleine Janicki, Martine Janicki, Philippe

Jaques, Helen Jassar, Daisy Johnson, Susan

Johnson, Tammy Jones, Alana Jones, Darren

Jones, Kevin Jones, Kyle Jones, Lara

Jones, Linda Jones, Mark Jones, Patricia

Jones, Randy Jones, Susan Jorgensen, Ole

Judge, Bhagat Kalyn, Dave Kang, Ming

Kelsall, Amber Kelsall, Binder Kelsall, Chris

Kelsall, Tyson Kendrick, Becky Kendrick, Brian

Kennell, Maree Keskeny, Cheryl Kiauka, Eric

Kingstone, Ben Lainson, Meg Lam, Anita

Lambert, John Lathan, Sharonlee Lawless, Karen

Lawrence, Adam Leavitt, Darlene LeClaire, Gavin

Leduc, Eugene Lee, Richard Leno, Laura

Leroy, Judith Little, Christine Lomax, Joanne

Loney, John Lord, Michael Lynam, Lisa

Machin, Shelagh MacLean, Iain MacNeill, Les

Mader, Brian Marshall, Alex Masse, Carole

Maycock, Joelle McCluskey, Paddy McCreath, Graeme

McGrath, Joan McKay, John McLagan, Lawrence

McMillan, Bill McNeely, Joan McNeely, Martha

McNeely, Mike Meredith, Jack Michell, Tom

Mill, Nicola Miller, Jack Milne, Dave

Mitchell, Krista Moffatt, Don Mofford, Glen

Moller, Jan Montgomery, Wendy Moore, Chris

Morgan, Andrew Morgan, Claire Morgan, Marina

Mullen, Sandra Murphy, Cheryl Nicholls, Phil

Noel, Cathy Noel, Doug Norrington, Susan

Obee, Cara Ogden, Dee Osaduik, Steve

Pagett, Andrew Panter, Daphne Pape-Salmon, Andrew

Parsons, Travis Pearson, Simon Pellow, Lindsay

Pells, Leah Phillips, Herb Pilon, Paul

Plamondon, Angela Plamondon, Roger Poirier, Marie-Claude

Politano, Leon Potentier, Brad Proulx, Louise

Raap, Rintje Reed, Dave Reid, Bob

Reid, Garth Reid, Rob Reska, Sabina

Rhodes, Bob Richards, Brian Rinald, Craig

Rinald, Evan Rinald, Kieran Rinald, Michelle

Roberts, Eric Roberts, June Rycraft, Richard

Salter, Stephen Sargent, Jim Saunders, Garfield

Scharbach, Bryan Scharbach, Leonard Scharbach, Linda

Scharbach, Norma Scott, Debbie Scriven, Bill

Searle, Kevin Sherwood, Eric Sherwood, Peggy

Simpson, Scott Sloan, Kate Smith, Lucy

Smith, Rob Smyth, Sylvan Smythe, Ken

Spagnut, Michael Spriggs, Alison Stewart, Ian

Stewart, Sandy Stromsmoe, Marcia Taggart, Chris

Tarrant, Maurice Tayler, Suzy Taylor, Ann

Thate, Christine Thibodeau, Mark Timmins, Cyrena

Timmins, Dylan Timmins, Eric Timmins, Reed

Tinari, Nancy Turcotte, Alexa Turcotte, Susan

Turcotte, Terry Turcotte, Trevor Turner, Brian

Turner, Steven Upton, Kathy Upton, Laurie

Upton, Terri Van der Merwe, Sam van der Werff, Kaitlyn

Vigier, Alistair Von Schuckmann, Ida Waelti, Caroline

Walsh, Patti Watling, Helena Wear, Lara

Webb, John Webb, Ken Webb, Kim

Willson, Austin Willson, Brandon Wilson, Nancy

Wilson, Steve Wilton, Rick Woodall, John

Zhuang, Chantelle

My name is Ron Bowker....What is your name???

Who is bought ??? Please name them, and how you consider them bought ??? Who is recruited from afar ??? Names,

please, cut the generalities and state your truth....

Please name all the PIH members who are not coached or advised or part of the PIH information umbrella...

Yes, there are other coaches involved, always recognized, and appreciated, no matter what their club affiliation is....

The fact is that PIH gives a competitive home to a whole lot of top distance runners, who feel appreciated at PIH and not anywhere else. Anyone who thinks there is a bunch of money changing hands here is a total idiot !!! Anyone who snipes on this topic, and is not willing to declare who they are, and what their real issue is, is a total idiot / moron / loser....

If you think you have a real point to make, stand up like a real man/woman.....put your name on the line and make your point.....otherwise, STFU, loser ....

PIH is only one of the great running movements in Canada, but it is happening.....get used to it....

this is all obvously vary debatable...which is what the forums are partly about so keep it up. The one club i believe truly blows the others away in terms of developing amazing runners (middle distances though, not long), is the phoenix club in toronto, run by bill stephens. look at the highschoolers who have come out of that program and where they went.

No one is bought at PIH, there is no cash flow. The fastees are often sponsored and almost everyone of them work.

If RB starts mentioning Pb's you might have to STFU., because your jaw will hang loose on it's hinges.

PIH rocks, whether it rules is debatable, as always.

Our membership fees have been like $20 forever...how does that add up to a bankroll?

Brown

Deacon

Jackson

Finlayson

Osaduik

Howard

Kiauka

Bowden

Murphy

Day

Baxendale

O'Callaghan

Hallam

To name a few

how bout Lechebo....TOC....has some ppl

oh f*** not another pih thread, please..

Ron, maybe I missed something, but where did durchkomponiert specifically accuse PIH of doing this? I took the post as a general comment on the scenario where a lot of top Canadian athletes are training at American Universities or with their former university coach, but still list a Canadian club as their affiliation. You seem to have a bit of a thin skin. And the tone of your post, were you drunk, or are you just 10 years old? (And I know you’re not.)