Personal Best 10 Mile - The Miscouche Firefighters 10 Miler

It was cloud and windy and 9 degrees.

Miscouche Firefighters 10 mile run in Miscouche.

The out and back course from the firehouse and out on Belmont.

Stanley Chaisson won the race and set a course record at 56:22 and Jen Nicholson also beat the course record for the top female in 1:02:25.

I finished in 1:09:20 and beat personal best from last year by 2:35 and came in 15th out of 56 runners.

Tomorrow I run the AIDS Run For Life at Confederation Centre.

Official Result: 15th out of 56
10 Miles in 1 hour, 9 minutes, 20 seconds

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New records at Miscouche run

MISCOUCHE

JASON SIMMONDS
The Journal Pioneer

MISCOUCHE -- Two new records were set at the Miscouche Firefighters 10-Mile Run here Saturday morning.

Twenty-seven-year-old Bear River native Stanley Chaisson, who now resides in Charlottetown, was the overall winner in 56 minutes 22 seconds (56:22). Jen Nicholson, 40, of Cornwall knocked almost 10 minutes off the previous-best female time. She stopped the clock in 1:02:25.

The previous course records were set by Paul Thibideau (57:40) in 2003 and Elaine Burkholder (1:12:16) in 2006.

See complete story in Monday’s Journal Pioneer.

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Record-setting day at Miscouche Firefighters 10-Mile Run

	Stanley Chaisson and Jen Nicholson both set new course records for the Miscouche Firefighters 10-Mile Run. Nicholson had a time of one hour two minutes 25 seconds (1:02:25) in the Saturday morning run; Chaisson's time was 56 minutes 22 seconds (56:22). Jason Simmonds/Journal Pioneer

JASON SIMMONDS
The Journal Pioneer

MISCOUCHE -- It was a record-setting day at the Miscouche Firefighters 10-Mile Run on Saturday morning.
Bear River native Stanley Chaisson, who now resides in Charlottetown, and Jen Nicholson of Cornwall established new course records. Chaisson's time was 56 minutes 22 seconds (56:22), breaking Paul Thibideau's 57:40 standard set in 2003.
"I was pleased with my time and it was the first time I've done the course," said Chaisson. "I felt good."
Meanwhile, Nicholson, 40, knocked almost 10 minutes off the female record en route to finishing sixth overall. Her time of 1:02:25 shattered the previous mark of 1:12:16, which was set by Elaine Burkholder in 2006.
"We (Nicholson family) have a lot going on today (Saturday) and I woke up this morning and kind of decided at the last minute that I'd run it," said Nicholson. "I wasn't really planning on it, which was good because I didn't get too worked up or too nervous about it."
Nicholson said the wind didn't bother her too bad and the temperature was perfect for running.
"Someone said the wind is always a factor and they were calling for wind today," she said. "There were certain places it was a little gusty, but certainly not the whole race and I didn't feel it slowed me down or anything."
Personal bests
Overall, 15 personal records were achieved and awards were presented to the male and female runners with the most improved times.
John VanErkis, with an improvement of 11:57, took the male award and Lisa Doiron, who improved her time by 13:27, took the female honour. VanErkis finished 18th overall in 1:10:23 and Doiron was 30th in 1:18:48.
The 56-runner field didn't waste any time getting away.
"Mike MacKinnon led the way for the few K (kilometres) and it was a really fast start," said Chaisson. "It's a very deceiving course.
"It looks flat, but once you get out there it's rolling hills and the wind was tough today. It made it even more challenging."
The race started and finished at the fire department in Miscouche and featured an out-and-back course on Lady Slipper Drive and Belmont Road.
"It was a fun run," said Nicholson. "It wasn't too hilly and was kind of rolling, which is what I like."
With the Prince Edward Island Marathon on Oct. 18, this run served as a tune-up.
"What my training partner (Rob MacKenzie) and I did today was we built this race into our long run," explained Chaisson. "We did a few kilometres beforehand and now we're going to do a few kilometres after.
"It's perfect because it's a month away from the marathon and this race is a great way to gauge where you're at."

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Army 10-Miler - The biggest 10 Mile Race in the World

Army 10-Miler
Results

Heat, not runners, rule day at Army race

By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, October 8, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — Every Army Ten-Miler is unique for some reason, whether it’s an amazing time or a particularly memorable runner.

For Sunday’s 23rd Army Ten-Miler, what likely will stand out in many minds is the heat.

While there are more than 150,000 U.S. servicemembers dealing with temperatures in Iraq that are still topping 100 degrees every day, it’s a little hard to complain about conditions in Washington, D.C.

Still, for the 26,000 runners who participated in Sunday’s race, the mini heatwave, with temperatures into the upper 80s (10 degrees above normal for early October), was an unpleasant factor.

Wherever they were training, many runners, — including Lt. Col. Marty Muchow, 42, an Army officer who won the men’s master’s division in 2006 — were watching the weather, and making plans for how to cope.

Muchow, who commands an explosives ordnance detection battalion at Fort Drum, N.Y., that is preparing to deploy to Iraq, told Stripes Friday that he “personally likes the weather to be as miserable as possible, because I think I’m tougher than other runners.”

On Sunday, the race field of half-civilian, half-military runners woke to a morning that felt more like July than October.

“I knew as soon as I got up this morning that the humidity was going to be a big, big problem,” said Alisa Harvey, four-time women’s winner of the Army 10-Miler and the owner of the No. 1 bib after she finished fifth.

By the time the traditional cannons boomed to signal the race’s 8 a.m. start, the sun was fully up, and the thermometer and humidity with it.

With humidity that high, “the sweat can’t evaporate. It just has nowhere to go,” Harvey said.

Runners crossing the finish line looked like they had taken showers.

Harvey said she had to do something she normally never does during a race: actually stop running completely, not once, but twice, so she could “pour a cup of water over my head.”

It didn’t help. By mile six, Harvey said, “I looked and I couldn't see anyone in front of me” because her female competition was so far head of her.

“That’s when I knew I’d lost” the race, she said.

Harvey finished with a time of 1:00:34, averaging 6:04 per mile.

One group of runners that was actually pleased to see the Sunday heat was the Brazilian Army team, which was making its first appearance at the race.

Among the top-ten male runners, Brazilians took first, second, third, fourth, and sixth places.

Runner dies at Army 10-Miler near Pentagon

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A runner from Fairfax County died Sunday during the Army 10-Miler race near the finish line at the Pentagon.

The runner collapsed about 10:40 a.m. about 200 yards from the finish line, said Col. Jim Yonts. Arlington County medics responded immediately and took the runner to George Washington University Hospital.

The cause of death was not known. Yonts said he did not know the runner's age. The runner was a civilian, not a member of the military, he said.

"It's a tragedy nonetheless," Yonts said.

The race started in 70-degree heat and high humidity. Race officials said there was plenty of water and first aid stations along the course.

More than 25,000 people registered for the race — the largest 10-mile race in the United States. The 23rd annual race takes runners from the Pentagon, across the Potomac River through the streets of Washington, past the Capitol building and back to the Pentagon in Arlington.

The runners included amputees who were injured in the Iraq war and a group of 36 women from Georgia whose husbands are deployed in the war zone.

One other race death occurred in 1990, Yonts said.

Also on Sunday, a Michigan man died while running the Chicago Marathon as stifling heat and smothering humidity forced organizers to shut down the course midway through the race.

Chad Schieber, 35, collapsed while running on the South Side and was pronounced dead shortly before 1 p.m. at a Veteran's Affairs hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Another 250 people were taken to area hospitals because of heat-related ailments.

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