Thanks to all, very helpful information.

The bear encounters I assume are black bears? not grizzly bears? or both?
Do you think it would be a good idea to carry bear bells? do they really work? that bear would walk away when they hear strange noise coming?

My new place will be 1.2k away from UBC research forest, looks like there's trails from there connects to the Golden Ears. Seriously, bears and cougars concerns me. I have googled news that there seem to be cougars around the area frequently, I heard they usually don't bother adults but I'm relative...

thanks guys! looks like nobody is currently in Maple Ridge except I will be.

jwof, thanks again, I will ping your friend. Yes, I'm really looking forward to those hills and mountain trails, I can do hill repeats right outside of my house

Hello runners,

I will be moving to Maple Ridge, BC next month. Anyone on this forum from there? I'll have to learn some tips to deal with bears and cougars when running trails...

updated with 2012 ATB30k, have fun!
http://racestats.felixwu.com/

I'm sure I'd do better, but it wasn't the problem this time I don't think... I put in a lot more running mileage this time around... several 30km+ runs and pretty high weekly totals. Just not sure what happened with the knee! :( I had a few whispers of a problem during training, but nothing that ev...

hey, at least it's still a sub-4, and you have NYC marathon cross off your list!
I think you focus too much on Moraine and all the "fun" stuff! (not so much fun for me at all )
if you were focused on training for the marathon you would be close to BQ!

finally I think I can graduate from 22/45/105 , moving myself to 21/44/97/210 Sub 18/39/86 dgrant - current PBs: 19:04/(n/a)/88:45 - focus on fun Sub 18/37/87/180 killerz - current PBs: 18:40/ 37:23/ 88:40/ 186:51 (I think) - First two a lot more realistic than last two. All will depend on how to pr...

Sub 18/39/86 dgrant - current PBs: 19:04/(n/a)/88:45 - focus on fun Sub 18/37/87/180 killerz - current PBs: 18:40/ 37:23/ 88:40/ 186:51 (I think) - First two a lot more realistic than last two. All will depend on how to prioritise ultras/ marathons etc Sub 20/40/90 mcshame - Current PBs: ??/41:34/9...

Speed Challenges 17/38/82/180 SteveF - current PBs: 18:10/??/84:46/187:14 training starts December for spring Marathon, lots of hill training and min. 50k/week - max. 80k/week Sub 18/39/86 dgrant - current PBs: 19:04/(n/a)/88:45 - focus on fun Sub 18/37/87/180 killerz - current PBs: 18:40/ 37:23/ 88...

I've never had a problem with passing or being passed. You can hear people coming up behind you (and IMO people shouldn't be wearing headphones in a trail race!). If there isn't room to pass without one person going off the trail, then you can say something like "passing on your left" and...

In two weeks I'll be running an adventure relay, doing the trail run stages. The runners in the trails have a long stretch apart from each other, in most cases you would be running by yourself. When you are approaching another runner, are you suppose to let them know that you are passing? but this i...

Thanks sportstats. I've just updated the results on racestats now.

This was a good reminder for me too as I'm starting to organize the Run Course for K-Town...ensure your volunteers know their jobs and how to do it. it appears to me a lot of issues in marathons can be fixed if volunteers were trained properly - such as directing runners to the wrong route, no race...

I don't want to hijack the discussion further, but it doesn't matter why you shorted the course. If you get to the finish and you've run 37k and don't know how that happened, don't cross the finish or DQ yourself. It doesn't matter that you went offcourse because of a volunteer, you become a cheate...

Would you be able to add 2010 Niagara Falls Marathon? http://www.sportstats.ca/display-results.php?racecode=47290" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://results.sportstats.ca/res2010/casinom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Hi mcshame, 2010 Niagara Falls Marathon ad...

booboo wrote:
http://www.winningtime.ca/11/11calgarym ... rathon.txt (Full)
http://www.winningtime.ca/11/11calgarym ... llhalf.txt (Half)

I hope this is what you need.

Calgary full added, have fun!

so being a code geek, I wanted more numbers than what we get on sportstats. I code this to show more stuff for longer races with splits, for now I've tested it with a few races such as Mississauga and ATB30. http://racestats.felixwu.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; if you find it...

KDG wrote:

jemez wrote:Ottawa definitely only uses the chip time for splits

How do you know this? I wasn't sure and seem to remember that it is gun time. I sent the question in a mail to sportstats.

Hi KDG, When you get a response from sportstats could you please let me know? thanks.

Ottawa definitely only uses the chip time for splits, makes sense that that would skew the calculation. I've fixed the code to assume splits are chip time, as far as I know all the longer races I have done split time were chip time. If anyone knows any race that uses guntime at split mark please le...

Last year in Whitby marathon, the 2nd half was a lonely course with few runners, lots out and back routes in industrial streets, you can easily remember who's ahead and behind you within around 30mins. It was not cool when I learned one runner I passed after 30k finished ahead of me... was this runn...

I think there's a mistake in the calculation for the Ottawa half. This is me: gun time:1:39:41.9 chip time: 1:37:48.1 10KM split time: 0:47:05 I don't understand how this passes me (there are others like this): Gun : 1:39:14.9 Chip : 1:39:01.8 10km: 0:47:19 There is a flaw in my calculation. To che...

They had mats at 21.1k and 30k - i see both online http://sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=47903" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Why I like this is to see how I ranked before my blowout was complete - first 21.1k - already starting to feel it - 1:33 or --> 99th...

mas_runner wrote:Cool 65 passed me but I passed 142 (so made up 77 places).

Good job Mark! I was stalking your stats, noticed this guy bib# 2542 in M60-64. He passed 30km 2:58:48 and finished 3:36:59.9!!! the guy finished the last 12.2km under 39minutes?!?

Thanks again for taking the time to do this, I enjoyed checking on a friend (who had a great race yesterday & was passed by nobody!) I'd love to see the total # of people passed in yesterday's Ottawa half, at least in my area I found it impossible to get into the correct place, so it felt like ...