Spruce Woods Ultra, near Carberry Man, May 12-13, 2017

Post date: May 16, 2017 12:22:01 AM

This was the designated club trip this year, with almost 20 MM members running. Firstly, congrats have to go to our new ultra-runners: Brenda Stricker and Don Ditson. As they say, any idiot can run a marathon, but it takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultra-marathon. Shelley Cook, Ashley Desjardins, Dennis Dreher, Heidi Schmalz and Conor Renouf notched new furthest-distances PRs. And Conor Renouf, Heidi Schmalz, Derek Anaquod, Matt Ludlow, Ashley Desjardins and Rob McLeod all grabbed top 5 finishes. It was a very tough course - the ups and downs never stopped, but then, neither did our runners. Here are their results: