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Escaping from the winter weather and finding a place to run, build new connections and think creatively are among the reasons why two of the owners of Earth Forward Group are in Bermuda this weekend.
“We like that running helps clear our minds of all...
DATE: Jan 19, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
When Lisa Yttri was told that she needed to have one of the muscles of her quadriceps removed because of cancer, she told the oncologist that was a bad thing for a runner to hear.
She asked him: “Will I ever run again? I have a bucket list.”
The onco...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
From 1979 onwards Philip ‘Ramsay’ Merriss has made a point of visiting Bermuda each January to compete in the weekend races.
He started out with the marathon and competed in that race for five to seven years before switching to the 10K.
On Saturday, ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
If you are looking for an inspiring figure in running — and indeed in life — then Jerry LeVasseur fits the bill.
In 1944, at the age of six, he survived one of the deadliest fire disasters in US history.
His mother Marion was among the 168 who perish...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
A team of 22 from Minnesota’s St Cloud River Runners will be competing this weekend — and among the bunch are two runners notching up a marathon in their 50th and 25th country, respectively, and a woman completing her 100th marathon.
Those key milest...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
She has dominated the Front Street Mile like no other elite athlete, man or woman, in the event’s history.
Now, after a two-year absence, American Heather Kampf is back to challenge for a fifth title.
Her four back-to-back wins from 2013 to 2016 put ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The steep ½-mile climb up the winding road to the Fairmont Southampton is not for the fainthearted.
Rose-Anna Hoey has been there before — and twice as a road-race winner. She added to that tally yesterday as she won the women’s title in the Goslings...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The Mid Atlantic Athletic Club’s juniors section celebrated a year of top performances at its prize-giving event held at the pavilion of the National Sports Centre.
Young athletes also learnt about training mental skills to improve performance from g...
DATE: Dec 14, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Chris Estwanik and Martina Olcheski-Bell finished the year as they started it — winning.
The pair were crowned champions of the BAC Jingle Bell 5K yesterday, 11 months after winning the men’s and women’s titles in first road race of the year, the Gos...
DATE: Dec 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
The remnants of a night of rain and sections of flooded roads were not enough to stop Dennis Mbelenzi and Rose-Anna Hoey from winning the titles in the Friends of Hospice/Hannover Re Half-Marathon.
For Hoey, it was a third victory in the island’s sec...
DATE: Nov 26, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Running-Triathlon
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil