I recently received an email from Ian Mellors in regards to the Canmore Masters Ice Racing Challenge to be held in December
Frank,
I was reading your Masters Blog site, and I love the fact that someone is promoting Masters Racing.
We run a very successful race here in Canmore, Alberta, Canada for Masters Skaters, Dec 11 - 13, 2009.
The format of the race is to allow Masters to have fast, safe, close racing, so with have run an open division (you need lots of skaters to make age class interesting), and we have been rewarded with many tight finishes. We have so far been successful in attracting fast skaters, 3 skaters broke 1:40 for the 1000m last year, 4 skaters broke 1:20 in the 777m.
We run the 1000m races Friday night, then on Saturday we run the 777m, 500m and the 1500m Super Finals. The Saturday races are run in conjunction with our club's ability meet,( so any masters with kids are more than welcome).
Saturday night we have a banquet, and then on Sunday we run a skating clinic for the masters (try to maximize the ice time for all those who have travelled)
The purpose of the meet was to promote masters racing in Canada, So far we have had skaters travel over 18 hours to come to our event.
I would love to add an international flavour to this event
Attached is the annoucement from last year, I will get the new one out in a week or so.
Ian Mellors
Banff/Canmore Speed Skating Club
www.banffcanmorespeedskating.ca
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