Cambridge Harriers Running Club

At the recent Run Waterloo EndurRun, Rob Brouillette came from behind to overtake the points leader on the final of the seven race days (in one week). He ran a 2:48 marathon at the end of the 100 miles of racing to squeak out a 19 second margin of victory. Well done. Mike Hammond competed as a guest runner in the 10K event at the EndurRun and was 6th overall in 42:10.
  At the Foxtail 25K trail race in Dundas, Jacob Zerko took top spot, covering the distance in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 21 seconds. Margaux Yvernogeau was third female, running 2:07:46. There were 50 competitors. 
                           

Jacob Zerko took first place overall in the field of 143 runners, posting a time of 16:25. Dave Johnson was 59th and took third in the 70+ category with a time of 26:15. ​

Rob Brouillette placed 4th in the Sulphur Springs 50K trail race last month. He covered the hilly route in 3:52:19. Rhys Desmond from Cambridge was 3rd in 3:46:08. 200 runners were competing.
  At Moon In June 5K in Burlington on June 10th, Jacob Zerko ran 16:13 to place 3rd although he remembers only one runner being ahead of him. There were 500 runners in that event.         
Jacob Zerko took first place for the first time in a Sarnia race that he has participated in since he was a kid - The Huron House Boys Home Run 10K. He had a 2 minute margin of victory with a winning time of 33:25. He beat 120 other runners.
  Margaux Vernogeau ran 44:35 in the Under Armour 10K in Toronto, placing 415th overall out of 5800 runners.
   At the 46th annual Waterloo 10K on Sunday, Rob Brouillette ran 35:47 in 14th place after placing third in 17:21 the night before in the Classic 5K. Back in the 10K, Mike Hammond ran 41:49 to take top spot in the men's 50-54 category, while Katherine Willis was 2nd in the women's 60-64s with a 57:14 clocking and Richard Moran ran 50:03 in137th place. There were over 500 finishers.

Jacob Zerko had another impressive result for the second week in a row. At the annual Brooks Spring Run Off in Toronto's High Park on Saturday, he competed in the 5K event and beat all the other 4,000 competitors to the finish line, crossing the line at the top of a very big hill in 16 minutes and 27 seconds.. Second place was 30 seconds behind and Jacob was interviewed by a television crew after the race (pictured).  ​

The annual Around the Bay Race is in the books now. Several Harriers competed, all but one were in the 30K event, and Jacob Zerko ran the 5K where he finished 4th in 16:16. Unfortunately, the leader of the 5K who was headed for a sure win in a fast time, followed the lead vehicle off course, taking a few other top runners with him. Those guys ran close to 5.8K. Jacob, however, stayed on course. The attached photo shows the start of the race with Ryan Tyrrell #10376 (the off-course guy) at the left and Jacob #10011 a bit farther back.
 In the 30K, Mike Hammond was our top finisher in 308th with a 2:16:07 clocking. Doug Rivera and Margaux Yvernogeau finished together in 2:32:42, and Heather Chan crossed the finish line in 3:43:51. Rob Brouillette finished 17th with a time of 1:50:30. 
 Blair Morgan was the men's winner, running the entire race on his own at the the front of the field of nearly 3500 runners and finishing in 1:37:46. The female winner, Sasha Gollish placed 8th overall and set a female masters record of 1:48:03. She was ahead of the first male master (over 40) as well. Former Harrier, Wayne Gagne, ran the 30K in 3:16:54. 

Some good fast racing went on in Burlington as the Robbie Burns 8K Road Race returned to the calendar. The top male and female finishers posted near-record times on the bare and dry course. Max Turek won in 23:13 and Rachel Hannah was the top female in 28:05.
  The Cambridge contingent was small but fast as well with Jacob Zerko placing 9th in the field of 500 in 26:34, and Rob Brouillette was 10th in 26:50. Rob was 2nd in the 30-39 age category. 

​Not everyone was sitting around recovering from the 25th this morning. A couple of our members were among the 450 runners competing in the annual Boxing Day Road Races in Hamilton today. Jacob Zerko made a late move to capture second place in the 4 mile event, finishing in 21 minutes and 30 seconds. Kingston's Miles Brackenbury won in 20:38.
  In the main event 10 miler, D'Arcy McKinley ran 1:30:47 to place 165th out of 300 runners. Cambridge's Carmen Douma-Hussar placed 8th overall and was first female in 58 minutes and 49 seconds.