Organizer(s) would be Ron. He is not associated with the Island Road Racers club. I think he asked someone to post the event on the email list or he posted it himself.
Organizer(s) would be Ron. He is not associated with the Island Road Racers club. I think he asked someone to post the event on the email list or he posted it himself.
***** wrote:
Lets suppose I do it all ie win in record time, on a fist place team, leading at 2k and 4k. Quiz - what do I get? Minimum 5000?
By my math you get $1700 if you do all that. If I'm reading the latest info in the right way.
I'll enter and run the first 2k in front and pick up a cool $250. I can do 5:30. ;)
As a comparison what do you get if you win Sunrun or Times Colonist 10k's?
Last one:
If I lead at 2k and 4k then bonk to 10th I get $500 but the winner gets $600. ;)
Why 6k? Those record times are quick but which 6k was that? Why not the more common 8k or 5k?
P.U. wrote:
Those record times are quick but which 6k was that?
I believe ronb has previously announced somewhere that he was taking the 8km island bests and going with the approximate 6km split as the 'record'.
If you dig back in one of his previous threads you may find the cite for that (or maybe not as it appears it may have been deleted).
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And the course is?....? might effect your ability to go 5:30!
Gameplan (conspiracy-it's a team event by inviting these guys):
Speed River-3 fast guys
$1000 out of the overall purse
$600 for the team
$500 for one of them leading at 2k & 4k
$400 for course record
=$2500 split 3 ways - $1200/800/500
I'm not following those numbers.
But I figure a few other local and unannounced fastees have been recruited to do this. Who knows? This how not to promote an event.
Original release is all about big bucks for athletes. Now it's much smaller bucks and fundraising for a sport place. What happened.
this looks like a one man show and i need to ask if the course is fully certified. seriously.
All serious questions/concerns will be dealt with at warmlandrunning.org, as we build the site and the race.
Thanks for your understanding and ongoing support. rsb
bump.
(any more details? whose running it? is it $5000 for 1st still?)
Heard a few days ago it was oncce going to be 50 K
Capitalist wrote:
Toby Gorman, Cowichan Valley Citizen
Published: Friday, October 13, 2006
COWICHAN BAY -- Ron Bowker has an idea and he's running with it.
The longtime Island foot race enthusiast intends to make Vancouver Island a hot spot for runners across the country by establishing a pro series that will be exclusively Canadian and will provide money -- and lots of it -- to top runners.
Bowker, who broke the news to runners and media at the Bay Pub in Cowichan Bay yesterday afternoon, expects that his new series -- called RunFest for now -- will not only attract Canada's best runners to Vancouver Island, but also make the home-grown athletes more competitive on the world stage by boosting internal competition through cash prizes.
"I have a vision of hosting the best runners in Canada and having them compete for real cash prizes they can sustain themselves on," said Bowker.
Bowker said upwards of $30,000 will be up for grabs in the series' first race, the Bay Run in Cowichan Bay, on March 3, 2007.
That would make the event the most lucrative single-day race in Canada. Top male and female winners can expect to win at least $5,000 of that prize money.
"The purse money could go higher," said Bowker. "That number is based on what I know I can do. I'd like to see it go to $50,000 or $60,000, with prize money 20 places deep."
The Bay Run will likely feature an eight-kilometre run for men and a six-kilometre run for women with $1,000 being awarded for race leaders at each kilometre mark. Bowker anticipates such events will attract the 40 best male and female runners in Canada to the Island.
At least 13 other events are planned in the RunFest series, though not all will carry Bowker's "primo" designations that go with the $30,000 in prize money.
He said he will add at least two more "primo" races to the 2007 calendar if
corporate sponsors buy into his program. "Essentially, the purse money goes back into the running community so the best Canadian runners can train better and travel better," he said.
Bowker said the RunFest 2007 schedule should be out by the end of November.
Bowker is the former running and track coach at the University of Victoria.
He also held several coaching positions with Team Canada at various international events such at the Summer Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world track and field championships.
Hmmm I heard right! For that big a purse I would try to invite some Kenyans up to run this...holy doodle!
Winning time 16' & change? ExCIting!!!
Mr. Victoria, Bc,
Are you really falling for this? Ron's idea is great but its not reality, and offering a $600 first place prize is peanuts.
Is this the same race? ;)) wrote:
Capitalist wrote:The Bay Run will likely feature an eight-kilometre run for men and a six-kilometre run for women with $1,000 being awarded for race leaders at each kilometre mark. Bowker anticipates such events will attract the 40 best male and female runners in Canada to the Island.
All my hard 1km trng was for peanuts?
strangeguytotheleft wrote:
Mr. Victoria, Bc,
Are you really falling for this? Ron's idea is great but its not reality, and offering a $600 first place prize is peanuts.
============================================================Wishful thinking, it would be SO exciting though.
any updates on entrants, prizes, the course?
Not that I know.
one week