Mickey Kupchyk, of Regina, sent the following account of this event:
Twenty three Masters competed this weekend at the Alberta Indoor Long Track Championship in Calgary, and what a weekend it was. 13 Canadian Master Indoor Mass Start records were broken.
Where does one begin? Why not with the “Doc”, Jo-Ann Johnson. I met Jo-Ann this past summer at the Masters camp in Calgary. She told me that before she turned fifty she intended to try 50 new things in her life. Well, does breaking 4 Canadian records in one weekend count as 1 or 4 things? That’s right, Jo-Ann broke the Master Female 2 records in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m with times of 47.42, 1:35.13, 2:26.60 and 5:17.98 respectively. By the way, she lead from start to finish in all four races. Well done Jo-Ann!
For some people breaking records is old hat. Not to be outdone, Ron Johnston broke all 4 Master Male 4 records. In both the 500m and 1500m races Ron finished less then half a second behind me. I’m 16 years younger then him, when’s this guy going to start acting his age and take up lawn bowling? Ron posted times of 43.89, 1:28.92, 2:14.21 and 4:49.04 in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m respectively. Congratulations Ron!
Two Calgary skaters in the Master Male 1 category had great weekends. Rejean Lavoie broke the 1000m record with a time of 1:23.09 while Marco Lebrasseur broke the 3000m record with a time of 4:32.60. Great job gentlemen!
Bob Irvine, the lean mean fighting machine from Calgary, pushed his own Master 3 500m record deeper with a time of 42.38. Way to go Bob!
That leaves two more records to account for. I wonder who broke those? Give up? Why it’s that short linebacker from the frozen tundra of Saskatchewan – Mickey Kupchyk. I managed a 1:24.02 in the Master 3 1000m and 4:30.86 in the 3000m. Thank you to all the guys in the Division 1 Masters who pushed me to my limit.
Tim Clooney of Lethbridge won the gold medal in Division 1 Male Masters. Laurits Skjolingstad of Calgary won the gold medal in Division 2 Male Masters. Jo-Ann Johnson won gold and Holly Gerke won silver in the Female Masters Division.
After seeing the improvement in all of us Master skaters, there’s only one thing left to say: “Look out World, the Canadian Masters are coming”!
Mickey Kupchyk
Where does one begin? Why not with the “Doc”, Jo-Ann Johnson. I met Jo-Ann this past summer at the Masters camp in Calgary. She told me that before she turned fifty she intended to try 50 new things in her life. Well, does breaking 4 Canadian records in one weekend count as 1 or 4 things? That’s right, Jo-Ann broke the Master Female 2 records in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m with times of 47.42, 1:35.13, 2:26.60 and 5:17.98 respectively. By the way, she lead from start to finish in all four races. Well done Jo-Ann!
For some people breaking records is old hat. Not to be outdone, Ron Johnston broke all 4 Master Male 4 records. In both the 500m and 1500m races Ron finished less then half a second behind me. I’m 16 years younger then him, when’s this guy going to start acting his age and take up lawn bowling? Ron posted times of 43.89, 1:28.92, 2:14.21 and 4:49.04 in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m respectively. Congratulations Ron!
Two Calgary skaters in the Master Male 1 category had great weekends. Rejean Lavoie broke the 1000m record with a time of 1:23.09 while Marco Lebrasseur broke the 3000m record with a time of 4:32.60. Great job gentlemen!
Bob Irvine, the lean mean fighting machine from Calgary, pushed his own Master 3 500m record deeper with a time of 42.38. Way to go Bob!
That leaves two more records to account for. I wonder who broke those? Give up? Why it’s that short linebacker from the frozen tundra of Saskatchewan – Mickey Kupchyk. I managed a 1:24.02 in the Master 3 1000m and 4:30.86 in the 3000m. Thank you to all the guys in the Division 1 Masters who pushed me to my limit.
Tim Clooney of Lethbridge won the gold medal in Division 1 Male Masters. Laurits Skjolingstad of Calgary won the gold medal in Division 2 Male Masters. Jo-Ann Johnson won gold and Holly Gerke won silver in the Female Masters Division.
After seeing the improvement in all of us Master skaters, there’s only one thing left to say: “Look out World, the Canadian Masters are coming”!
Mickey Kupchyk
1 comment:
Just wanted to acknowledge the skinny man from Edmonton with super off-the-line speed Jules Chabot. He didn't break any records but everyone knows he will soon enough. 3 1/2 second personal best in the 500 meter for a time of 41.7!!
As well... Richard Hijnen from the Calgary club had a fall in the 1500m and that one incident pretty well bumped him into the 3000 meter B-final because of the tight times. We all know the Dutchmen are long distance guys and Richard is in fine form this year. I know he would have been in the mix, had he been in the 3000m A-Final.
Rock on,
Rejean Lavoie
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