Sports

by Mare Davis
The Review

Every Tuesday morning, people
driving to work along East Saa-
nich Road may notice about a
dozen sneaker-shoed women
working up a sweat, eating up the
pavement while training for the
next big race.

Some 13 women and one man
make up the Peninsula Plodders
— a group of joggers who run
together for fun, fitness and friend-
ship.

The groups’ organizer, Shirley
Eike, says she formed the Plodders
in the fall of 1988 as a way of
bringing together people who want
to get fit, but without the loneli-
ness and tedium that usually
comes with jogging alone.

“It’s very satisfying when we
run together. You get more support
from each other when you run as a
group,” she says.

Ages among the runners vary
from 20 years-old to 50 years-old
but most are in their late 20s to
early 30s, Eike says.

Starting each workout at the
Panorama Leisure Centre, the
Plodders typically run for about an
hour, covering up to seven and a
half miles, she said.

Everyone runs at their own pace
but a little competitiveness
between the runners is always a
healthy aspect of the training, Eike
adds.

Last week the group was prepar-
ing for the Pacific Northwest Road
Relay Championships, which took
place last weekend.

The event featured teams from
all over the Pacific Northwest and
took place on a 130-mile course
from Courtenay to Victoria.

Each team must field ten run-
ners, who will each compete over a
six mile distance.

Eike admits that some of her
team are relative novices but

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Plodding together for fun, fitness, friendship

UNDAUNTED BY THE PROMISE of rain, members of the Peninsula Plodders set out on a
training run, accompanied by a pet dog, who is the self-appointed pace-setter.

others have tackled half-marathons
before.

And all of the Plodders com-
peted in a recent 10-K run, she
said.

The Plodders are alternating
their training routes each Tuesday
and Thursday to prepare for the
challenges the championship will
offer.

We work on speed one day and
we work on running up and down
hills the next.”

Eike would like to see her team
put in a “respectable” showing at
the race but she does not expect
them all to be crowding on to the
victory podium.

“We're really not that fast but

‘Were really not that fast but we do
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The Plodders are always in a
state of flux because of the year- .
round training. Newcomers are
always welcome and are not
expected to be too competitively
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“People come and go all the
time, especially since we train
even in the winter, through rain or
snow. But there’s always some new
race to train for.”

Besides the group’s strong com-
mitment to its fitness goals, the
Plodders are like an informal club,
Eike says.

“We're a very sociable group.
We support each other in our
running but we also go skiing
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running by as Peninsula residents
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shape can be, Eike said.

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