5K RUN TT
On a day that looked dry and crisp, the Gods decided this wasn't to be the case for the 5k Run time trial as only 15 minutes before practice started, the skies opened up and unleashed a storm!
Despite the horrible weather 26 athletes participated making it the second largest event thus far.
The team ventured East towards Acadia Blvd where the 5.5 lap run would take place. The general atmosphere was much more relaxed than last week at the mile, as jokes of eating Red Burrito and Subway where passing through the air. Andrew Wight was even going to far as to blame Safeway and Halloween candy until he called himself out on the lame for using classic Vincent Lavallee excuses.
Group shot during warmup, with Team Seder prominently in the front
After a rather short warmup due to the cold weather the 26 athletes were off! After a rather"quick" start by an overexcited Claire, Barry Claman, 2 time defending UBCTC event champion quickly took over the lead never to relinquish it. After being out-kicked in the dying meters of the Mile last week, Claire was not going to let this happen again as she distanced herself by 90 seconds over her competition by the finish line, edging out any ideas of a quick finishing sprint getting by her.
Victoria Gilbert finished in second with Rachel Schoeler just over 15 seconds back taking third.
With this strong finish, Claire moves up in the standings to be tied with Flipper Janzen for second.
On the men's side, behind Barry, Vincent Lavallee led out the charging group. Giving short 100m surges to break apart the group, Vincent managed to drop all the chasers but one, Matt Reeve. Then it became a race within a race, with Vincent and Matt Dueling and Winstorm, Flipper and Liam HARRAP close behind.
With 1 lap to go, Vincent gave one final powerful surge on the long backstreach uphill to finally snap the elastic that was holding Matt, and managed to distance himself 10-15 meters coming into the finishing stretch. Behind these two, a true race unfolded as Winstorm managed to open a gap on Liam and Flipper, Flipper managed to hold off Liam HARRAP in the sprint for the line.
Flipper sporting conflicting clothing, some running flats and a tuque
This was not the only sprint finish, as behind this group a minute or two down was the race between Evan Cheng and Matt Robinson with Cheng edging the win at the line.
On a hugely successful night for all, there were multiple personal best achieved:
Matt Reeve, Winston Guo, Andrew Wight, Nathaniel Flipper Janzen, Scott Chris along with many others (tell me and I'll put your name up) despite in being rumored a long course.
Image showing Dark/Wet/Cold conditions racers faced
Comparing the three GPS wearers, Winstorm and team Seder, the average distance covered was measured at 5.13km. However after all the votes are in, no corrected times will be given for the time trial. Although the GPS watches give readings of 5.1+ km, the arguments were made that everyone was running wide and with the leaves/wet ground etc. it was just lack of tight cornering that resulted in the long distance. Also, you don't want to have to justify your result in the future if ever someone asks.
To remedy this situation, many UBCTC members are rumored to be running another 5k TT but this time on the track. No questions there (other than how many laps have been done). Hopefully the previous three weeks of racing won't hurt too much, and the athletes will still have the juice in their legs for a good run. Any company will be encouraged and welcome, an e-mail will be sent out with some warning as to when.
In a post race interview with series leader Matt Reeve, he was asked about his thoughts on the race:
"Well, I've been pretty confident in my running after the uphill time trial and the mile race. I knew that I had the form for a good performance, maybe even a PB. I decided to go out strong. Immediately I saw Vincent take over the lead of our chase pack and figured that I would simply hold him and then when he started to fade I would take over and run in for the win. Well who would have thought Vince had it in him. I mean, we all know he's a decent runner and a generally good looking guy, but the kick he put out at 1km to go was just a little too much today. I have to be happy with the 3rd."
Results:
| Barry Claman | 17:10 |
| Vincent Lavallee | 18:08 |
| Matt Reeve | 18:17 |
| Winstorm Guo | 18:35 |
| Nathaniel Janzen | 18:43 |
| Liam Harrap | 18:44 |
| Andrew Wight | 19:04 |
| Scott Chris | 19:36 |
| Kory Seder | 20:02 |
| Evan Cheng | 20:32 |
| Matt Robinson | 20:32 |
| Ceilidh Curtis | 21:46 |
| Derrick Lee | 22:18 |
| Jesse Chao | 22:26 |
| Fabian Jankovic | 22:41 |
| Claire | 20:28 |
| Victoria Gilbert | 21:58 |
| Rachel Schoeler | 22:16 |
| Alana Schick | 22:32 |
| Melanie Thompson | 22:45 |
| Kimberly Seder | 23:05 |
| Lauren Sagadore | 23:28 |
| Annie Mauer | 24:17 |
| Kelsey Foote | 24:34 |
| Celeste Pakstas | 24:35 |
| Debbie Poon | 32:30 |
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