2025 Club Results

Boston Marathon, April 21, 2025

Congratulations to Regina’s runners at the Boston marathon! The weather was near perfect and helped our runners set some super fast times. Our fastest woman was Mallory Murchison, and Andrew Shanks was the fastest male. The highest placing runner in their age category was Lana Thompson-Van Eaton! Yvonne Cafik did a sterling job considering her curtailed training from a knee injury!

Results were:

Andrew Shanks,3:26:40,4047th M18-39

Mallory Murchison,3:28:45,2644th W28-39

Kelsey Haczkewicz,3:32:47,2903rd W18-39

Lana Thompson-Van Eaton,4:03:57,195th W60

Yvonne Cafik,4:05:43,208th W60

Istrski Luka Koper Marathon, Ankaran, Slovenia, April 13,  2025

Congrats to Gay Renouf and Sandy MacDonald who travelled to the Istrski marathon in Slovenia. The race travels between four towns and alternates its start/finish town each year - this year  it started in  very small Ankaran. The course featured rolling hills, passing through industrial areas, large stone gravel, but also had kilometres on beautiful bike paths following the ocean coastline. Gay finished the marathon in 4:38:29, good for second in Women’s I division, and Sandy finished in 2:41:20, also in second place in Women’s J division. This was Gay’s 200th lifetime marathon. Sandy was our profiled athlete just a couple of days ago - check it out in the Get  to Know our Runners  section.

Baker to Vegas Relay, CA and NV, April 6, 2025

Congrats to Abbey Schmidt who ran in the RCMP team in the Baker to Vegas relay on April 6. 243 law enforcement teams from around the world race 120 miles through the desert and mountains from Baker, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. Abbey’s team finished in 20 hours and 45 minutes. Abbey’s stage was leg 14, an uphill grind of 17.2 km that she finished in 1:31. Congratulations, rock star!

January 26, 2025
Marrakech Marathon, Morocco

Congrats to mother goose herself on marathon #199, sounded like an adventure to say the least. Also to Milos on another strong marathon at 83!

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"Things looked ominous at the start with 3 portapotties to serve 1500 marathoners and 7300 halfers. The course was nice, wide boulevards, accurately marked. But motorcycles and scooters kept zipping in and out across the runners. Not race vehicles - I mean a thousand motorbikes at least. It was the most air- polluted race I’ve ever been in.

I raced hard to the finish - 4:27:12 and expected to have a medal draped around my neck. Instead I stood in a crowd with hundreds of other finishers (including quite a few who did not look like they ran…)after 20 minutes, the yelling started. Chaos! All the yelling was in Arabic but it seems non-runners stole the medals.

But then…an Irish angel gave me a medal (a policeman gave her an extra one?)

Milos finished in 5:44:11 and although he’s 83!!, he was 9th in the M70+. Apparently I finished third in the under 9 girls- maybe they can sort that out. I think I was 7th in W60.

In case you’re wondering, the Marrakech marathon does not get my recommendation."

February 9, 2025
Deadcold Run, Thick-Skinned 21 km, Saskatoon

Congratulations to two tough cold weather warriors! Tania Diener and Dale Harvey both braved the minus 31 windchill to run a half-marathon in Saskatoon. They each won their age groups in the Thick-Skinned 21 km event of the Deadcold Run. Tania ran 2:39:32 for first in W60, and Dale ran 2:58:10 for first in M65. Awesome job, runners!

March 7-9, 2025
Moab Run the Rocks, Utah

We had 7 Regina athletes participating at the Moab Run the Rocks event in Utah.  All of them ran in the Full Pint event, a three day stage race of 86 km and 1356 m of elevation gain in total.

Our trail heroes had impressive results: there were 700 runners from 46 states, 8 provinces, and four countries.

Jamie Tait summed it up,”It was soooo HARD, my feet are absolutely TRASHED, I ended up pretty much hiking the last day due to the pain on my feet…..BUT, I DID IT!” Yes, all our Regina runners did it! Please congratulate:

Jason Burns,8:35:39,12th M -50

Mitchell Johnston,10:07:51,29th M-50

Melissa Burns,10:23:03,33rd W-50

Nick Dalrymple,10:31:39,36th M-50

Jacqueline Myers,11:27:29,54th W-50

Jamie Tait,14:04

Ara Steininger,10:50 for first two stages before injury