High Performance Distance Club for Senior Athletes with an Olympic Mindset

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Welcome to the new ATHLETICS TORONTO "Distance Running Club" website. Our site includes information about who are our members, how are they performing, our sponsors and up-to-date announcements and news about future events. Our club has a focus on preparing post-University, Olympic-bound athletes in middle and long distance track and road racing events (800m to marathon).

 

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April 30, 2012
AT completes a strong weekend yesterday

This past weekend Athletics Toronto had some excellent performances. Sheila Reid lead Villanova Univ at the Penn Relays to a 1st in the Distance Medley Relay and 3rd in the 4 x 1500m Relay.  The DMR was her frst Relay Championship win at this traditional event.

In Montreal, Matt Loiselle & Rejean Chiasson finished 2nd in 64.55 & 3rd in 65.04 in the Canadian Half Marathon Championship. Two solid podium finishes with Rejean also picking up a PB!

In Aurora, Jess Pearo in her first race in a while won the Southlake 10Km.

Finally, late last night at Stanford Univ in California Megan Brown won her 5000m section (13 overall) in the Payton Jordan HP Invite with a 15.33.42 setting a PB! that was just 3 seconds off the Olympic "B" standard.

Well done everyone.


April 22, 2012
Strong Weekend for AT

AT had a strong weekend that started on Apr 20 at the Mt SAC Relays in Walnut ,Ca. Sheila Reid attained the AC B Standard for the Olympic Games with her 5th place 5000m time of 15.23.64. Megan Brown was 22nd (5th in section) in 15.48.81 in a very strong group within the first 2 sections of 56 athletes. Both Sheila and Megan are currently now ranked 1-2 in Canada.

At the Yonge Street 10Km Kate Van Buskirk was 2nd in a new outstanding PB! time of 32.25 and Sami Jibril came up with a 6th place finish with an outstanding PB! time of 29.16.

Well done everyone. 

 

 


April 15, 2012
Two PB's in Vancouver
Today at the Vancouver Sun Run 10Km in another 50,000+ field Matt Loiselle (3rd) and Rejean Chiasson (5th) each had and PB! 29.18 and 29.38 respectively. Well done! 



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