Hi our team came out again at the EPOS 10K and we want to say thanks to everyone who showed their love for the sport and their commitment to the team.
A lot of the runners got great rewards besides the satisfaction of running a great race. Thanks to Richard Jones and his team for a great event.
I want to thank Nature Valley our main sponsors for giving us the opportunity to take part in the UWI SPEC half and the EPOS 10K
In one age group the women on our team dominated all positions. Suzan Garcia grabbed first place and finished inside the top five finishers. Wendy shallow took 2nd place and Petrenie Roberts followed in third.
Suzanna Joefield won 2nd place in her age group
The prizes were the most paid to age group categories and these girls loved it.
Esla Anthony welcomed the opportunity to show her talent and consistency and took first place in her age group and was a popular winner on the day. With lots of applause and hooting when she came up to receive her prize. Must say thank you to the CBTT posse who came out in a big way to participate and support. Keep it going guys.
Grace Oblington came in 2nd and Patricia Green capture 3rd place in their age group
Nikosi Mc Leish was among the prize on the taking 3rd
place in his age group.
After the race I caught up with a please and relaxed Mc
Leish who gave us a brilliant interview.
Susan Garcia not to be left out posting the fasted time among the women had an interview for us also.
Beside the age group winners the group members was generally happy they came out and the racing experience was so great.
I want to say thanks again and let you that we are continuing the training and group running with CariFin games around the corner.
But also there is the national cross country at Sevilla and Run Barbados before the year is done.
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
Hi everyone I have four interviews line - up here. The overall male and female winners of the EPOS 10k and the CariFin Team in Training - top finishers (male and female). This is interesting and engaging and a must listened to... for the runners and fans alike. This is the first time we have the EPOS 10 K and it was a blast. Not your typical big race... only in it for the marketing buck... but at the heart of this race was a platform for good aggressive racing to take place.
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
Hi members of CariFin – Team in Training
The EPOS 10K is taking place on November 15, 2009 at 3.15 pm.
And I am kindly asking you if you could again participate under the CariFin Banner at this race.
The reason being we had an issue with the size of the Nature Valley logo on our running vest for the UWI half marathon.
It was only resolve on the morning of the race by the race managers who allowed us to wear the race number over the Nature Valley logo.
Under such conditions the sponsor Nature Valley didn’t receive the usual kind of quality mileage or the acceptable level of exposure expected under the sponsorship.
In an attempt to add more value for their involvement and give us a better chance of getting the sponsorship next year (noting this is the 3rd year Nature Valley is on board)
We are kindly asking all in the participants in UWI half marathon to participate in the EPOS 10 K.
This will give us the opportunity to wear the uniform and this time it would be fully exposed and picture taken etc.
Also remember that EPOS 10 K would be one of the last advertize road races on the calendar for 2009 and maybe the last opportunity you have to race in Trinidad for the year.
The race being a 10K offers a little more opportunity to enjoy the race, meaning it is a little longer than the 5K, not as long as the half marathon so that gives you a little leeway in there to some good racing. You could try some surges, flow down the inclines and power up the hills and really have some real fun.
The kind of race play that put the fun in fitness to generate the exhilaration and excitement that this great sport can offer.
So all those who like a challenge and appreciate that great feeling of health and wellbeing this is the ideal event to come out to and enjoy, play and have fun!
Please call me 487 9487 to let me know if you are part of this great race on Sunday November 15, 2009 starting at 3.15 p.m.
CariFin/Nature Valley team in training for UWI SPEC Half Marathon ‘09
Report
We had a good time
CariFin/Nature Valley Team in Training had a great time at UWI Half Marathon ’09. Our team of 110 members was generally pleased with race day conditions and the organization of the race. All the runners on our team crossing the finish line had that feeling of satisfaction for a performance for which they could feel proud.
Nicole Budd 1.43.07 and Rodney Julien with 1.25 were the headlining acts for CariFin/Nature Valley at UWI Half marathon on Sunday November 01, 2009.
Budd had a 3 minutes improvement over her 2008 time as well Julien with four minutes.
In addition, Nicole Budd collected the 3rd place for the 30 - 39 age-group and the much improved Esla Anthony took the 5th place in that age-group.
Many runners on the team had tremendous improvement in their performance time over 2008. Immediately coming to mind is Annette Neilson who didn’t train that extensive as last year and was quite sensitive about her training at the initial stage when she was just getting back in training with some soreness etc.
But she stuck it out with support and encouragement from the other team members and made it to all the training sessions. There were the long runs, tempo runs, chancellors, interval training and she was more than willing to do the hard work. At the end she finished in 2.20.11 twenty minutes faster than her 2008 time of 2.40.30.
Another performance that is similar to the one noted above is Trevor Benjamin. In 2009 he crossed the finish line in
1.52.40 which represented a 21 minutes improvement over his 2008 time of 2.14.16.
Again Benjamin’s improved time for 2009 could be in some part attributed to his own institution RBTT team training together or encouraging one another through the interest generated by CariFin/Nature Valley to send a team to UWI from early.
There are similar levels of improvement all of which we are unable to note here because of space. But come prize distribution day we would no doubt feature all those note worthy improvements.
But on the official side of UWI half, we have more to celebrate besides the already recognized age-group prizes won by Nicole Budd and Esla Anthony, Wendy Shallow took 4th place in the 40–49, Susannah Joefield and Gemma
Thompson were 4th and 5th respectively in the 50 – 59 age-group. Grace Oblington, better know as Gracey, did 2:32:27 to take the 5th place in the 60 – 69 age-group. From last year to this year she had a 13.32 improvement.
Ruth Frazer-Munroe did 3:05:04 in 2009 which was a 7 minutes improvement over her last year’s time 3.12. She won the age-group from 70 – 79 with this improved time. You just have to tip your hat to this kind of performance.
This is definitely the tip of the iceberg as far as improved performances are concerned but such performances which are no doubt many will have to be highlighted and show cased at another forum.
Rodney Julien lowers the CariFin/Nature Valley – UWI Half mark to 1.25
Nicole Budd runs 3 minutes faster
Rodney Julien makes good of his boast to clock 1.25 by easily covering the 13.1 miles of the UWI half marathon on Sunday November 01, 2009.
Nicole Budd looked stronger, smoother and more purposeful as she completed the course in 1.43 three minutes faster than her last year attempt.
Julien improved on his 2008 time by four minutes when he finished in 1.25.18. It is evident that Rodney takes a liking to the flat, fast course and the weather was the best in years and the UWI race in particular.
Using Runner’s World pace calculator it shows that he ran the race at 6.30 per mile pace and this is a good indicator based on the fact that it is a four minutes increase in his performance. This improvement was not had in the easiest or most satisfactory situation or conditions but it was clear to me that he had injuries issues leading up to the race, and problems with gears to name a few and the absence of these negative situation is an indicator that Julien could go a lot faster.
In 2007 he posted 1.29.42 and followed that with a 1.31.05 in 2009.
“I was happy with my performance and the way how I ran the race,” Julien responded when asked how he felt about his performance.
He ran his own race, his own style, never once feeling overwhelm by the moment, the occasion or the bigness of the race, he held firm to his conviction and purpose.
For once he felt that his training had paid off big time, every mile was a challenge but the corresponding exhilaration more than compensate for any effort or discomfort as he kept pace and continue just running his race. In the end he felt more than compensated with the race and performance.
Nicole Budd
“It was a moderate improvement over my 2008 performance and I felt less winded and could have gone faster,”
This is how Nicole Budd felt about her 2009 performance at UWI SPEC half marathon.
Nicole Budd started somewhat slowly in the race; having to shake off the effects of an early spill at the start of the race, but built to the speed she felt challenging enough to maintain a pace that allowed her to pass a number of runners male and female along the course.
From a night before when she felt she was losing the joy of running and felt like she would skip this race or at least it would be her last one to turning in her best performance in 5 years.
As every success story has its ups and downs, this is not without its own, leading up to the race a virus struck Budd which she found quite difficult to shake off which resulted in lost time for training. But like a true committed runner she soldiered on.
In the end she posted 1.43.07 and improvement of some three minutes over 2008 time.
Budd did a 7.52 per mile pace over the 13.1 mile course, a runner who still seems to be feeling out her way on this course of “fast, flat asphalt”, but seem ready to unleash a much faster run next year.
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