Vancouver Distance Track Series - 5000m Race Report

The meet was run on a beautiful Spring evening at the UBC track. The first heat had a wider range of abilities and doubled up as our women’s race. Many of the athletes experienced their first waterfall start under the watchful eye of starter Iain Fisher. The field settled into a number of groups quickly, each working together and racing to the finish. There were plenty of PBs among the athletes including race winner Sean Peicheff setting a new personal best at 48 years old! The top 3 female finishers were Sabrina Wilke (17:57), Ellie Greenwood (18:24), and Manon Plouvier (18:36).

In the second heat, the racing was a little more bunched and pacing was more aggressive than the first. Many of the field were struggling to maintain paces in the later stages of the race but there were still many track 5000m personal bests set. The Men’s race finished with a sprint finish between club mates Alex Gladley and race director Nicholas Browne both finishing in 15:52 in that order, while Paul McNamara finished third in a track PB of 15:56.

Thank you to the support of all our participants, volunteers, and spectators, especially:

  • Photo finish - Scott Saunders

  • BC Athletics Officials - Iain Fisher, John Cull, Carol Cull, Jill Delane, Chris Winter

  • Photographer - Charles Perrot-Minot

  • Videographer - Rick Horne

 

Race Media

Photos (Photo Cred: Charles Perrot-Minot - Instagram @charly.charlo)

Video Heat 1: (Video Cred: Rick Horne - Instagram @photorrhorne)

Video Heat 2     

 

 

Race Results

Heat 1:

Place

Time

AgeGraded %

Athlete

Gender

Team

1

17:54.79

79.2%

PEICHEFF, Sean

M48

Unattached

2

17:57.12

80.9%

WILKIE, Sabrina

F34

Unattached

3

18:15.74

69.6%

EVANS, Felix

M32

Vancouver Falcons

4

18:19.04

71.8%

ROBERTSON, Ian

M38

Vancouver Falcons

5

18:24.70

81.4%

GREENWOOD, Ellie

F40

Vancouver Falcons

6

18:30.55

69.6%

MARSH, Dave

M35

Vancouver Falcons

7

18:36.75

78.2%

PLOUVIER, Manon

F18

Van Thunderbirds

8

18:38.33

78.1%

MARTLAND, Kai

M12

Van Thunderbirds

9

18:40.78

69.9%

PALMER, Geoffrey

M37

Kwyjibo

10

18:43.15

77.0%

CHADSEY, Emma

F25

Vancouver Falcons

11

19:08.78

65.9%

SANKAR, Krishanu

M28

Vancouver Falcons

12

19:46.00

73.6%

TITOV, Mikhail

M51

Ocean Athletics

13

21:17.37

69.5%

TRAN, My

F38

Unattached

14

21:18.94

59.5%

VIMONT, Charles

M31

Vancouver Falcons

15

21:47.45

66.2%

HOWLETT, Jane

F30

Vancouver Falcons

16

22:50.82

71.3%

MAKELA, Susanna

F48

Forerunners

17

24:28.75

64.2%

HARMON, Lei-Lani

F45

Unattached

18

24:37.61

58.5%

THOMPSON, Becky

F24

Mile2Marathon

19

24:46.42

65.6%

THOMPSON, John

M64

Unattached

 

Heat 2:

Place

Time

AgeGraded %

Athlete

Gender

Team

1

15:52.02

79.6%

GLADLEY, Alex

M29

Vancouver Falcons

2

15:52.67

82.8%

BROWNE, Nicholas

M38

Vancouver Falcons

3

15:56.45

82.0%

MCNAMARA, Paul

M37

Unattached

4

16:07.12

78.3%

LOEWEN, Ronald

M27

Langley Mustangs

5

16:34.13

76.2%

KIMURA, Kyle

M29

Vancouver Falcons

6

16:47.59

75.1%

NISBET, Gary

M27

Vancouver Falcons

7

16:51.08

74.9%

HOWLETT, Mitch

M29

Vancouver Falcons

8

16:55.34

77.2%

COOPER, Julian

M37

Vancouver Falcons

9

17:05.60

73.8%

MURRAY, Ronnie

M29

Forerunners

10

17:13.05

73.3%

MELNIK, Matt

M29

Unattached

11

17:41.28

71.5%

KELLER, Connor

M30

Donore Harriers

12

17:48.38

81.0%

CRESSMAN, Dave

M50

Unattached

13

17:51.93

77.0%

FINLAYSON, Philip

M44

Mile2Marathon

14

18:06.06

80.3%

COOK, Jack

M51

Fast Trax 

15

18:12.61

76.2%

MEADOWS, Devon

M14

Coquitlam Cheetahs