RUN FOR RESEARCH NV Street Feet team gets set

RUNNERS FROM North. Van- couver City's Street Feet team are training to again top their division in the Lions Gate Medical Research Foundation Run. for Research.

. Street Feet members will be join- ing the expected 800 runners in the May 29 10-kilometre run saising money.to help fund North Shore ‘health care.

“We wanted to get behind the

effort as it’s a worthwhile cause,”*

Street Feet member Francis

Caouette said of the team’s entry

into the run last year.

< Out training every working day

at lunch hour, team members are

putting in about. 25 miles a week

getting prepared to defend their

team division title.

“We've seta standard - for

ourselves — we're going to come

out hard and fast,"* said Caouette, _ who ‘hopes the team will top. its earlier time.

. Formed to compete ina 2A-hour

relay. for charity, the Street, Feet: ‘ team -has since. that. time. “‘had,;

“some victories and some Josses, but we keep running.’? - Team member Joe Carreira last : year finished second in the’ men’s category." = oe Hoping t to raise 516, 000 this year

7 “Everigymnasts,

. Czechoslovakia was. 12, days; of

1. .culture, training . and. lifestyle : not seen ain Canada.’

: By STEPHEN BARRINGTON .. * News Reporter

Training ‘under the ‘direction “of coach. Sona Kebylakova in

x the’ country’s top. facilities, the ' 7

seven: gymnasts: were: smittes oowith the fully equipped | ‘gyms.

“Thad never been in a facili-

ty so large,’’: gymnast | Helen "Carmichael, °

15,7 sald ‘of the ,

— up from last year's tally of $10,000 — the LGMR?#’ and North Shore News.1988 Run for Research has fewer hills this time. Co-sponsored by the North

Shore News and other businesses, .

the race will help to fund medical research that in the past has in- cluded diabetes treatment and evaluations of palliative and acute, care treatment for cancer patients.

Beginning. and: ending: at the North Shore Winter Club, the race features the following categories: men, women, junicr, masters, team, senior‘and open. -

For those who would ‘like to participate but would prefer not to race, the NSWC will host a five- kilometre non-competitive run or 45-minute aerobic workout.

“The whole team is looking to see the Run for Research take off and become a popular event for North Vancouver,’’ said Caouctic. “St's a good cause.”"

_ With sponsors Park Royal,

North Shore Taxi, NSWC and —

other businesses helping to defray

costs,-the foundation will be abic

to direct more funds to research. Official Run for Research entry

forms — available at the NSWC or .

Lions Gate Hospital. — must be mailed along with a $37 entry fee,

which includes a race sweatshirt, to -

P.O.. Box 86639, North Van-

Nuberg National Training Cen- |;

tre, which the team toured.

’ “En the gymnastics hall each:

“ apparatus has its own perma- nent video system so the gym-

a past could immediately replay it an visualize her mistakes.”’ “Part of a sport. exchange to

: Crechostovakia, \ the trip was °.

“orchestrated through the efforts . of - Kobylakova, . who ; is ‘con-

tracted to ‘coach with B. c. Best .

ot Byer.

: ductive,’ “Wingfield, 17, who was Joined

by Carmichsel, Heather" An-.

drews, Jeanette Hrabes, Krista’

+ Onno, Ursula Trpin, Lisa On- ‘po, team manager Don Peachey “and judge Olivia Chow. ‘

ee “Tt. was. inspiring. . to train

“with the young, well-condition-‘

ed, talented and self-disciplined “Czechs,” . the: “vecatled.”

“Qur training was very pro-"" said Kristin

fop:. gynmast ’ “t*We learned so -

couver, B. Cc. IL 412, For more information call 984- 4222,

NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy

BACK FROM a:training trip to Czechoslovakia are gymnasts eft to.

‘s Fight) Kristin’ ‘Wingfield; Helen Carmichael, Jeanette Hrubes, Krista

“Onno, Heather Andrews and Lisa Onno.

much. ms Staying with Czech families — often’ top: coachesor sports

- officiais —: the gymnasts were

afforded a “glimpse os ike coun-

“_ try’s people and culture. - “We noticed a-few different —

“customs,” explaincd Andrews,

16. ‘Upon entering a building

“you must shout ‘Good aay, even if nobody listens...

_-. “Fhe majority of people we met on the street just stared ‘at us like they knew we. were for- eigners,’* she Said. ‘But

: everyone we met was very friendly.” .~

_ Vistting ¢ the Czech citles of

: Prague, Bro, Bratislava and

we

Nuberg, the group took in the’ sights, which at times included heavily armed soldiers.

‘First impression was it

| looked just.as 1 imagined —: “ old, grey and 2 little forbidding. a

Fhe atmosphere seemed ex- tremely militant,’ said. Wingfield. e

Al of these Best Ever gym-

nasts — ‘except Wingfieid, who

‘ is cut with an ankle injury.— ,

will be’ competing in the na- tional championships May 19. to” 22 in Hamilton, Ont., to quali-

fy for the Olympic trials in July :

‘and August.” a ne

13 - Wednesday, May 1%, 1988 — North Shore News

mystery solved

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

“READY TO go, members of North Vancouver ‘City’ s Street Feet ranning team “train to compete in the Lions Gate Medical Research Foundation’s Rua for Research. .

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