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Cornwall Multisport Club Raises Thousands for

Two Local Organizations

less than one hour. Once each lap is
By Casey Leger
completed, the remaining time within
the hour is typically used to recover
ornwall Multisport Club
Cmembers (Ian Callan, Rene for the next hour’s race. Exactly one
hour after a backyard ultra’s first
Bourget, Dale Witty, Patrick
Campeau , Sebastian Warner, Leah starting time, the competitors run an
additional 6706 meters with a one-
Lamesse, and John Warner) will
push the boundaries of their running hour window for completion. These
abilities in the global “Quarantine distance loops are repeated hourly.
The race ends when the last runner
Backyard Ultra” event to support the
Boys and Girls Club of Cornwall and or runners either concede or fail to
finish the distance within the allotted
Beyond 21.
time frame.’
So says the group’s ‘Backyard
In other words, athletes run over six Left to right Ian, Rene, Sebastian, John, Dale, Bear the Dog, And Leah
Ultra Marathon’ Facebook page. The and a half kilometers in an hour, every Photo Submitted
local ultra was part of an international
hour, until they quit or simply drop
race organized by Personal Peak, from sheer exhaustion. Additionally, response to these cancellations, had qualified for the prestigious
a coaching company in Calgary,
runners typically run on short courses responding to the desires of the Ultra-Trail Mont-Blanc race in
which ran from July 11 to July 13.
laid out in places like their backyards. community of ultra-runners who Europe, which was to take place in

Local runners raised an impressive This is in deference to the societal still wanted to use their hard-earned August, but was canceled this year.
$5626 for The Boys and Girls Club
changes due to the pandemic. winter fitness in some way.” He was somewhat satisfied to get in
of Cornwall and Beyond 21. “Many of us had goal races “For me, it was perfect in that it was some good distance running, while
According to cancelled or postponed due to the scheduled around the time I was to be happy to join the team to support
quarantinebackyardultra.com, pandemic,” says Ian Callan, the running my main goal ultra-marathon these community organizations.”
“The backyard ultra is a form of group’s de facto spokesperson. “We race in Spain,” Callan continues. All in all, the seven runners logged
ultramarathon race where competitors looked for ways to stay motivated “So, I switched my focus to this race a total of 517 km, with the highest
must consecutively run the distance with our training. The Quarantine and aimed to make some personal individual total run by Ian Callan:
of 6706 meters (4.167 miles) in Backyard Ultra was an organized breakthroughs. Sebastian [Warner] 175 kilometres in 26 hours.
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