November 27, 2007
Interested in seeing some great mountain films? The Banff Mountain Film Festival is coming to town November 29, 30 and December 1st. Suburban RUSH will be on location at the Ridge Theatre on Friday and Saturday night. Drop by and enter our contest.
November 27, 2007
Magnus
Team Suburban RUSH is racing the BEAST race in Washington State on December 2! The team members are Sarah, Christopher, Lannie, and Magnus. Check the leaderboard for this team as Magnus has done very well in the last three Suburban RUSH races! No presure guys! :) Have fun south of the border.
November 13, 2007
Suburban RUSH will be on site for the Fall Classic run this Saturday.
http://www.fallclassicrun.com/
Come by and visit us after your run!
October 10, 2007
Suburban RUSH would like to express our sorrow for friends, and family of Denis Fontaine, who was a huge personality in adventure racing and Richard Juryn a fellow event organizer and extreme athlete. These two individuals recently lost their lives in a tragic kayaking accident. <Province story>
October 10, 2007
Tentative date is Saturday April 26th for the 4th annual Suburban RUSH Adventure Race!
July 23, 2007
How many Grouse Grinds can you do? Jordy Ydse (second on left), leadership volunteer of Suburban RUSH, completed nine Grouse Grinds in a row on Saturday July 21st. The challenge raised money for his mother that had cancer and for the BC Cancer Foundation. Way to go Jordy!
July 15, 2007
Shawn Leclair , co-founder of Suburban RUSH and Rachelle Trent, Timing Manager for Suburban RUSH, are pictured here on the last day of the BC Bike Race. Shawn was involved in the inaugural BC Bike Race - The Pacific Traverse, a seven day mountain bike stage race from Victoria to Whistler. The race started on July 1st, Canada Day and will definitely be back for 2008!
July 8, 2007
Team Suburban RUSH - Secondwind places 8th in Raid the North Extreme. Lots of good times and stories to be told from the five day expedition race recently held in the Queen Charlottes. More details <click here>
Don Barthel, Lina Augatis, Jordy Ydse & Dean Wutke at the start line.
June 11, 2007
The rough north coast will be the destination for Team Suburban RUSH - Secondwind's next race. From June 23-30 Prince Rupert will host one of the biggest adventure races in North America - Raid the North Extreme. The 6 day expedition race will be televised in Canada and United States.
www.raidthnorth.com
June 10, 2007
Suburban RUSH is proud to support the Eagleridge Hospital Foundation - our charity of choice in the Tri-cities area. Suburban RUSH recently made a contribution to the foundation. Thanks to all that raced and made this possible!
June 9, 2007
On June 3rd, Team Suburban RUSH - Secondwind placed 5th against 25 teams in the Full Moon in June 36 hour Adventure Race in Alberta.
For more pictures and details on the 36 hour race <click here>
May 26, 2007
Thanks to all our fantastic photograhers: Bryan McPherson, James Durand, Mike Clay, Sho Fujimaki, Stanley Dyani , and Peter Kobayashi. <Click here to go History/Photos Page>
Keith Mieczhowski from San Francisco stays with the lead pack during the first running section. Photo by Sho Fujimaki
The Karen and Sarah Stark travel quickly through the first trail run section and finish first in the team of two female division. Photo by Bryan McPherson.
Team Blueline - Charles Fortier and Stuart Bookbinder pictured here go on to win the yellow jersey in the team of two male category. Charles also won in 2005 while racing with Cathy Ross. Photo by Sho Fujimaki.
Tamara Pudlas and Marla Wilson from team Training Wheelz and T-Barz leave Checkpoint 3 to start the first bike leg. Photo by Sho Fujimaki.
Racers push their way up from Mossom Creek in the short hike-a-bike section on route to Sasamat Lake and Checkpoint 5. Photo by Sho Fujimaki.
The second trail run section had racers finding markers around the beautiful Sasamat Lake. Photo by Sho Fujimaki.
Tom Jeracki is all smiles after completing his first Suburban RUSH. Photo by Sho Fujimaki.
Penny Plamonoon from the runners' den collects the yellow jersey with her son after the 3rd annual Suburban RUSH. Photo by Sho Fujimaki.
May 26, 2007
Thanks to all the racers that filled in the Suburban RUSH Feedback Questionaire for 2007. The lucky winner of the Sea2Summit entry goes to Brock Andrews. Thanks for the great feedback everyone!
May 12, 2007
Dean Wutke, Lina Augaitis, Jordy Ydse, and Don Barthel
It was a great day for the first Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race of the season on Saturday May 12th. The Squamish race was 45km long and covered some great trails. Team Suburban RUSH - Secondwind placed 1st in the 4 person co-ed division!
May 2, 2007
Only one yellow jersey holder from the five categories held on to their title. For the third year in a row Magnus Byne with a time of 2:18:23 was our solo male and overall winner. Congratulations Magnus! Team Andromeda's Echo, Co-ed Yellow jersey holders from last year had to pull out due to extreme mechanical problems early in the race leaving Karl Yeh and Danielle Fisher of Team Coastal to take the Co-ed jersey with a time of 2:52:30. There was also a number of other impressive finishes including our new fastest woman, Penny Plamonoon of the runners' den, with a time of 2:34:58.
You may have noticed the bride and groom racing as well. Paul and Rhonna will be tying the knot this Saturday May 5th! Our youngest competitor Lynden Good, 12 finished strong and is geared up for future races. Congrats to our "first time adventure race' winner Peter Ruben for successfully completing his first adventure race. He was matched up with Team Captain Subaru Canada, Jim Mandelli who shared race tips and encouragement along the way.
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The course dealt out some cuts and bruises. Racers will remember a hike a bike section - a ravine at Mossom Creek proved to be quite the site with all the racers pushing their bikes up the muddy hill. The furthest point on the course was Sasamat Lake which had the racers going every which way around the lake finding markers stretched over 4 kms. More sweet single track finished up the course and naturally something fun was waiting at the end which made for some laughs. Lastly, the awarding of the yellow jerseys was followed by the racers heading to the Golden Spike Pub for a beer.
For some initial pictures <click here> Be sure to check back in a few more weeks for more pictures. Thanks to all the sponsors and volunteers that helped make it happen! The 2007 race was a real rush!
All the best for a great summer of adventure racing ahead!
Dean Wutke & Shawn Leclair
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