2002 It Hurts a Little X-C Trail Race

On Sunday September 1, 2002 the Older But Wiser group of the Wapiti Nordic Ski Club hosted the inaugural “It Hurts a Little” half marathon and 10K mini-marathon.

In total, twenty-four runners ran the twenty-one kilometer half marathon distance and eleven runners ran the ten-kilometer race on our ski trails. The route started at the Wapiti Chalet (Old Chalet) and continued over a course that included Center and South Blue, the competitive Canada Games Trails and the Forest Trails.

If you had not trained for the “Half Marathon”, that event did hurt!

Patrick MacKenzie set a course record of 1:23:48 and won the Open Men’s category. Following closely behind Patrick was Joe Radench at 1:29:19 finishing second overall. Bill and Marlene Corcoran each won their respective categories with Marlene finishing first among all women (1:40:40) and winning the Open Women’s category. Bill Corcoran finished third overall and won the Master’s Men’s category in 1:30:57. Another well-known Grande Prairie runner, Rhonda Howard, won the Master’s women’s category in 1:55:06.

This event provided an incentive to train over the summer months and also extended our WNSC programming to include a fall running event. In total thirty-six participants entered the “It Hurts a Little” running races. The response from the event was very positive with many of the runners commenting on how great it was to run a longer race on such a beautiful set of trails.

Eric Chislett designed each of the race routes and also created the event map. Other volunteers included: Franco and Trudy Carlacci, Pam Chislett, David and Rosemary Kay, Josee Couette and Alexandra Turgeon, Erin Corcoran, Henry and Shirley Chojnacki, Lorna Perry and Ken Lumbis
 
 

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