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WATCH OUT Sussex Realty, your days as reigning race champion could soon be coming to an end.

North Shore Realtors’ Climb race organizer Joe Lloyd prom- ises that his team, Sutton Group — West Coast Realty, will avenge their second-place finish in last year’s competition.

When eight teams from North Shore realty companies take the Starting line on Grouse Mountain Sept. 26 they will be greeted with a revised race format.

This year, the competition will be divided into four separate categories: cycling, obstacle course, rowing and running.

“We still have the same events,’’ Lloyd assures. ‘‘But we’re going to run each event in- dividually.”” The change, he says, is to improve spectators’ views and to help fuel head-to-head competition.

Lloyd, who originated the race 10 years ago, changes the course ‘every so often to keep the racers from getting bored.

“But I don’t know what the changes will be next year,’ he says.

And while Lloyd knows that many participants are training vigorously for the event, he jok- ingly warns that no other per- formance-boosting methods will be allowed.

“*Tell them we'll be doing drug testing to make sure there’s no funny stuff,’’ he laughs.

This year, the eight-member teams will be competing in heats, with the category’s winner being awarded !0 points. Racers who

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON News Reporter do not place in the final compete in a consolation round, possibly earning their team up to six points.

Says Lloyd: ‘‘This is an oppor- tunity for a team that is not so Strong to increase their point placing.’ And the racers have a vested interest in doing as well as they can.

Each team is required to pay various amounts of money depending on the performance. The worst team has to pay $330; the best team has to pay $230.

All of the money is donated to the B.C. Lions Society for Crip- pled Children. . .

The event’s rowing competi- tion, ‘in the Cambridge tradi- tion,”” is to take place on the nearby glacier-fed lake.

“The water’s damn cold,’’ says Lloyd.

And as for the obstacle course, it is the standard fare of slide, rope ladder, bridge and pole.

This year’s mountain-top race will kick off at 3 p.m., one hour earlier than last year’s start.

Local realtors have raised over $23,000 since the climb was established.

In addition to Sussex and the Sutton Group, Western Realty, Crest Realty, Block Bros., Royal LePage, J. Dahlberg/Mitten Re- alty and Bel? Realty have ail entered teams in this year’s

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

BLOCK BROS. REALTOR Perry Korrot strikes a competitive pose in

anticipation of the annual oijier area realtors look on. Friday on Grouse Mountain.

North Shore Realtors’ The climb is scheduled to begin 3 p.m.

Climb while

NEWS photes Tom Burley TRIATHLETE TOM BARICHELLO grabs a quick bite before pedalling into the start of the 25-mile bicycle leg of the recent Superman Triathalon. The event, which also included a 40-mile kayak race and an eight-mite run up Seymour Mountain, was held on the North Shore Sun- day. Barichello was the eventual winner.

ANOTHER HASH run will be held Sept. 24 at 6:30 p.m. starting from William Griffin Community Centre.

Hash athletic paper “hares’’ running ahead are pur-

a form of

running is which

chase in sued by a pack of chasing ‘*hounds”’,

Developed in Indonesia in the 1930s to keep British ex-patriots fit, slower and faster runners start and finish together, the slower runners able to catch up and rest while the faster runners find the course,

The course is marked with flour, different patterns indicating ‘checkpoint’, ‘‘wrong way"? and the correct route. The objective is to catch the hares who must lay the trail, including deceptions, with only a 10 minute head start.

Three hash runs have been held over the summer.

Participant Graham Baldwin, an experienced ‘“‘harrier’’, was in- volved in a hash run group in Vancouver until 1983.

“It’s good to see hash runs star- ting up on the North Shore,” says Baldwin. ‘‘There are so many ex- cellent areas to go.”’

Baldwin says that even children who can run at an easy pace for up to 45 minutes can take part with their parents.

Prospective hash runners may call 986-2255 for more informa-

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VANCOUVER'S TOM Barichello finished first overall in the Super- man Triathalon held on the North Shore Sept. 21.

The event began with a 40-mile kayak race from Belcarra Park to the Wigwam Inn to Deep Cove and was followed by a 25-mile bicycle race from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay then back to the base of Seymour Mountain.

The final leg of the competition was an eight-mile run up Seymour.

Barichello capped the first two legs of the triathalon by com- pleting the mountain run in one hour.

The record for those running the mountain course alone is 56 minutes.

The triathalon began at 10:30 a.m. Barichello completed the race’s three legs at 5:33 p.m.

Duff Waddell finished in second spot, two minutes behind Barichello.

Richmond’s Tom Morris was third. He crossed the finish line at 5:48 p.m.

Paul Degraaf of North Van- couver finished fourth, 56 minutes behind Barichello.

Twenty people began the com- petition; 10 finished.

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