Celebrate together

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Marathon Matters celebrates how awesome we are, because we are all ridiculously awesome!

Speedy times and individual accolades are great, but what really matters is the contributions we make to our club and one another!

Each year, at our Annual General Meeting we choose two standouts from our membership, one who has contributed significantly to the betterment of the club and another who has demonstrated the highest degree of inspiration to members.

There were many deserving entries but only two could win awards, congratulations to our 2017 nominees and special shout out to this year's award winners!

2017 Builder Award Nominees

Milos Kostic, Cari Bode, & Gay Renouf

2017 Inspirational Runner Award Nominees

Ashley Desjardins, Aubrey Swift, Conor Renouf, David Wessel, Derek Anaquod, Dhon Gumban, Douglas Sellinger, Heidi Schmalz, Jan Steenkamp, Tania Diener, Jon Paradowski, Loanne Myrah, Rob McLeod, & Sean Reidy

our 2017 Builder Award winner is....

Conor Renouf

Here are some clips from what his nominators wrote. Just takes everything in stride, even with the added pressure of his mom being our coach extraordinaire! He's always there to support other runners in the club, sharing his extensive running knowledge and dry sense of humour. He helps assist with club coaching duties when Gay is away. After running (not to mention, winning) the 50 miler at Spruce Woods in 2016, he went back out on the course to support other runners attempting their longest ultra distances. Conor is a very talented athlete, yet is very modest. His support and encouragement mean a lot to our club members! Plus he can handle a ghost pepper!

our 2017 Inspirational Runner Award winner is...

Shelley Cook

Anyone who has ever run with Shelley will know how incredibly positive she is. She is always selfless, always focusing the spotlight on other runners, but although she would never talk about it, Shelley had a truly special year. At the Spruce Woods ultra, she finished her furthest event ever - 80 km and was strong the whole way. At the Canada Goose 150, Shelley showed us just how talented an ultra runner she is. She was super steady for 96 km and then turned on the jets and finished in a sprint worthy of a 5 km race. Shelley dedicated her race to friends fighting breast cancer and said she was able to run for so long because she was thinking of them. She also was a full marathon pace bunny at QCM, helping others to achieve their goals. To complete hee year, Shelley coaxed husband Mike into becoming a marathoner with her, ran two marathons with him, and set a whopping PR at the Okanagan marathon. Shelley inspires us all!

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