Athletics Illustrated

© Copyright – 2010 – Athletics Illustrated University of Victoria Vikes athlete Laura Mitic recently competed in the Canadian Interuniversity Cross Country Championships (CIS) in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The Claremont High School grad helped the Vikes to a fourth-place finish by...

Chris McDougall Born to Run A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Random House, Inc, 2009 Knopf. 287 pp. $24.95 © Christopher Kelsall – 2010 - Copyright I sit blurry-eyed watching planes take off through the floor-to-ceiling wall of...

© Copyright - 2011 - Athletics Illustrated (April 2008) Canadian distance runner Lisa Harvey, is a competitor who just loves to run. She started in high school, and later ran varsity for the University of Calgary Dinosaurs in Calgary, Alberta. Harvey...

© Copyright - 2011 - Athletics Illustrated Adam Campbell is a Victoria, BC-based competitive ultra-marathon and mountain runner who happens to also be married to one of Canada’s top Olympic distance triathletes, Lauren (Groves) Campbell. Growing up primarily in Lagos, Nigeria,...

© Copyright - 2011 - Athletics Illustrated Zola Budd came to worldwide prominence during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. The focus on her was intense for several reasons, none of which were necessarily healthy for a shy, small-town, 17-year-old...

                      © Copyright - 2011 - Christopher Kelsall Recently retired Canadian 800m record holder Gary Reed, launched a first-of-its-kind charity foundation to support financially struggling track and field athletes. Typically athletes will lend their name and make appearances for a good cause...

© Copyright - 2011 - Athletics Illustrated Khadevis Robinson, one of the fastest and most consistent 800m runners that the US has produced, is coming to Victoria July 3rd to race the 800m main event at the Victoria Track Classic. Robinson...

© Copyright - 2007 - Athletics Illustrated You see people out on their daily walk or jog. They carry their water bottles or have affixed an apparatus around their middle to store water. You know the contrivance, the ones which...

© Copyright - 2008 - Athletics Illustrated Frankly, it surprises me to no end why women are not waving their collective fists in the air, voices united in song, harmoniously belting out the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s classic 1970s hit,...

© Copyright – 2009 – Athletics Illustrated On June 16, Black Creek’s Cameron Levins finished second in the British Columbia provincial 5k Road Race Championships on a challenging and hilly, double-looped course. He finished in the time of 14:53. Friday,...