Teams use fun run to prepare for Klondike Road Relay

Mark Beese has entered his first Klondike Trail of ’98 International Road Relay, set to kick off from Skagway on Sept. 10.

Mark Beese has entered his first Klondike Trail of ’98 International Road Relay, set to kick off from Skagway on Sept. 10.

The Whitehorse resident will be running leg three, a 12.5-kilometre stint across the U.S.-Canada boarder.

Beese finished his first five-kilometre run earlier this summer.

“So I’m a rookie,” said Beese, who will be running with the Whitehorse Motor-erz.

“I’ll keep running, not every night, and probably take it easy the last couple of nights. I don’t know, I’ve never run anything that long before, so I’m thinking I’ll just try to finish it,” he said.

Beese was one of the 35 to brave the showers Tuesday evening for the Intersport Fun Run/Walk, before the clouds opened up and the sun shone on the Millenium Trail.

Three of his teammates, Staci Kindervater, Shari MacIntosh and Iain MacKenzie, along with many others itching for the road relay, were also out last night to work on their conditioning.

“It brings something different to running, which is a solitary thing,” Beese said.

“But this type of running brings a group into it, so it changes it.”

This will also mark MacIntosh’s first road relay.

The Tuesday night fun run is a boost for beginner runners, she said.

“You keep building and building,” said MacIntosh, who will be running leg seven, where she’ll hand off to teammate Kindervater.

Kindervater has run the road relay six times prior to this year’s race.

“It’s my favourite event of the year,” she said. “It’s neat running from Skagway to Whitehorse as a team. Team events are fun; running by yourself is fun too, but it’s social and fun.”

She agreed with her teammates that the Tuesday night runs provide a social component for road relay veterans and rookies alike.

“These shorter runs are great, A for speed and B for the road relay,” Kindervater said.

“It’s nice to meet and have something to do together as a group before the relay.”

Results from Tuesday evening’s Intersport Fun Run/Walk are as follows:

Male 5-km runners

1 Logan Roots 0:17.24

2 Bill Parry 0:18.43

3 Tom Ullyett 0:19.41

4 Doug Mayr 0:19.50

5 Preet Gill 0:20.23

6 Jud Dueling 0:20.46

7 Steven McGovern 0:21.19

8 Don White 0:21.29

9 Caelan McLean 0:22.06

10 Alex Ordennez-Simmons 0:23.12

11 Keith Lay 0:24.43

12 Brian Mottus 0:24.55

13 Marcus Dueling 0:25.14

14 Randy Lamb 0:26.59

15 Benjamin Grundmanis 0:27.31

16 Iain MacKenzie 0:27.49

17 Steve Cash 0:29.55

18 Simon Cash 0:29.55

19 Mark Beese 0:30.33
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Female 5-km runners

1 Gabriel Stetkiewicz 0:23.21

2 Ella Parker 0:24.23

3 Aven Knutson 0:25.25

4 Deborah Kitchen 0:27.02

5 Staci Kindervater 0:27.50

6 Shari MacIntosh 0:27.51

7 Monica Nordling 0:29.02

8 Solstice Sarin Toews 0:30.27

9 Kassi Wright 0:30.27
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5-km walkers

1 Ruth Hall 0:34.50

2 Tanya Astika 0:35.07

3 Arlene Ogden 0:35.12

4 Catherine Simpson 0:37.49
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2.5-km runners (male)

1 Thomas Moore 0:17.15
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2.5-km runners (female)

1 Tessa Moore 0:17.16