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<\/a>Helly Visser<\/p><\/div>\n
Victoria, BC \u2013 The Q\u2019s Victoria Track \u2013 77 year old Helly Visser of Vancouver, BC smashed the 75-79 age-group World Mile Record at the 4th meet of The Q\u2019s Victoria Track Series. She bested the previous record by 10 seconds in 7:47.<\/p>\n
Visser said, \u201cI recently ran 8:05 in Calgary at a meet there, the World Record is 7:57, I don\u2019t know if I can do it, but I am going to try\u201d. She did, she ran 7:47. The first lap was well ahead of pace and announcer Paul O\u2019Callaghan got the crowd cheering for her and she hung onto the World Record pace throughout. Upon finishing she announced to the crowd, \u201cand what a wonderful meet to achieve the record at\u201d. <\/p>\n
Colin Dignum also of Vancouver raced the Men\u2019s Elite 5000m event and bettered the Canadian 45-59 age-group record from its previous time of 15:27, by 5 seconds, catching two-time Olympian Bruce Deacon in the final lap to finish in 15:22.<\/p>\n
Colin Dignum had an \u201cA\u201d goal; taking down the Canadian Record of 15:27, his \u201cB\u201d goal was the provincial BC record of 15:38. He accomplished both easily. Colin ran the first few laps conservatively watching the runners ahead. Deacon, who led Dignum by as much as 50 metres became victim late in the race as Dignum saved his best for the final lap, to take the record and the two time Olympian.<\/p>\n
Also, during the 5000m Men\u2019s race, Trevor O\u2019Brien continued his excellent comeback from injury by winning his 3rd of 3 races at the Q\u2019s Victoria Track Series. Full results are at: www.victoriatrackseries.ca\/results\/<\/p>\n
Other races were: 400m Open, 400m Women\u2019s Elite, Open mile and 5000m Open, which was won by Laurence Coogan in 16:07.<\/p>\n
The weather, for the fourth consecutive meet was outstanding with little to no wind, warm temperatures and sunny skies.<\/p>\n
The fifth meet of the eight meet series happens again at the University of Victoria\u00a0 Track, Saturday, July 9th with the gun sounding at 6:30 PM. Athletes must sign in or be registered no later than 6:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Proceeds go to the Mustard Seed Food Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Victoria, BC \u2013 The Q\u2019s Victoria Track \u2013 77 year old Helly Visser of Vancouver, BC smashed the 75-79 age-group World Mile Record at the 4th meet of The Q\u2019s Victoria Track Series. She bested the previous record by 10 seconds in 7:47. Visser said, \u201cI recently ran 8:05 in Calgary at a meet there, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,11],"tags":[10,28,29],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-track","tag-canada","tag-helly-visser","tag-qs-victoria-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}