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Communications: Messages and discussions are emailed out among "online" members. We also, of course, have this web site! And our new online forums get busier every week.

Club Teams: Teams participate in the Haney-to-Harrison, the Hood-to-Coast, the Jasper-Banff, the 24-Hour Relay and others. The CVRR enters team competition at the Royal Victoria Marathon, and the New Balance Island Race Series.

Club Meetings: We encourage members to attend monthly meetings held the second Monday of each month.

Social Events: The social gals Karen Weller and Lyn Robson, are always busy thinking up fun things for us to do!! Events like the Bikini Blastoff, New Years Pub Run, the Beer Mile, Halloween Pub Run, and others are fun for all abilities. There is also a fairly regular handful of people who continue on to Tooney Tuesday at Billy D's Pub on 5th street after Tuesday Night Track. Please contact them for info or suggestions!

Event Equipment: The club has timing equipment, course marking and measuring tools, finish chute, road signs, vests, and signs for course marshalls and volunteers.

Historical Information: The club has records of race results and articles dating back to its origins in the Valley. These records are constantly updated and are kept at Extreme Runners, located in Courtenay.

Run Organization: The club organizes the annual 5K Running Clinic; the New Balance Island Series Comox Valley 1/2 Marathon; the July 1st Courtenay 5th Street Mile (a measured downhill course where we hope to see a "four-minute" mile); the Comox Nautical Days Four-Mile Foot Race (the oldest continuous running event in British Columbia); the Memorial 8-K; and the Jingle Bell Christmas Benefit run. Awards, draw prizes and hot food are the order of the day. All runners are welcome.

Club Coach: Kathy Rung, an experienced and highly accomplished coach and teacher, works with the CVRR members on a regular basis. These "Tuesday Track" sessions run all year long on Tuesdays at 5 pm at the Sports Centre Track. These workouts are not competitive. Runners of all ages work to their own levels of fitness and strength. All members are welcome to attend these sessions to add variety to their running and improve their running ability. Nonmembers are welcome to attend a session before joining the CVRR. Come on out and meet everyone and have fun while you improve your fitness!

How to Join: The CVRR has over 150 members covering the full range of running ability. Family memberships allow group involvement of all family members for a reduced fee. The annual dues to join the club are:

Membership forms can be obtained at Extreme Runners and mailed to the CVRR or dropped off at Extreme Runners on Fifth St in Courtenay.

CVRR History:

The Comox Valley Road Runners (CVRR) was founded May 7, 1980. Dick Merrick was first club president. He was succeeded by Bent Harder, who served until 1989. Early leaders were Gary Holt, Sally Kunz, Alex Stuart, and John Crouch.

The club's first organized running event was the Cumberland Empire Days 3 Miler on May 18, 1981. In May of 1985, Leo Vogel of the CVRR organized a relay run to Victoria to hand over a donation cheque to Steve Fonyo. A team of ten runners moved a baton with over $6,000 from Courtenay to Victoria in just over 16 hours. This event stimulated John Crouch and others to establish the Island Relay as an annual event.

In 1992, club members Al Munday and John Ingram were instrumental in working with the local Rotary Club to establish the first 24 Hour Relay to benefit St. Joseph's Hospital in Comox. Over the next four years the event raised over $140,000. In 1998 the CVRR made a charitable donation of $2.00 per entrant from the Comox Valley 1/2 Marathon. The Jingle Bell Run contributes to the local food bank.

The annual CVRR Running Clinic, organized and presented by the club, is a popular community event introducing running as a fitness and social activity. The clinic instructs over 100 new runners for ten weeks, culminating in a 5K Fun Run.