Race for Raincoast! Turning sweat into support
Turn your upcoming physical challenge into a fundraiser to support conservation.
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Maxing out to protect coastal carnivores
Hello again! If you read my first post from back in July, you’ll remember that I planned to run the length of the Island from Port Hardy to Victoria that summer. Due to several reasons, such as various injuries and a few issues regarding travel, I was not able to start my run as planned….
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I am riding my bike to save coastal carnivores, and you can help me
This area is home to each of these large carnivores, in addition to grizzly bears and wolverines. Unfortunately, they can all (with the exception of grizzly bears) be legally hunted for sport. You can help me protect them…
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Trail running to safeguard the Nadeea tenure
I was a little out of my comfort zone to ask people to donate, but it was so worth it! My fundraising for Raincoast has been about giving back to the natural world that sustains me and that sustains my love of running…
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Giordano Corlazzoli: Running for Coastal Carnivores
The planned route for my run takes me over 500 kilometers from Port Hardy to Victoria, traveling along the Old Island Highway when possible. I will be running about a marathon’s distance a day, with the actual daily distance varying from as little as 32 km, to as much as…
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Our Salmon Runners are hitting the streets
This Thanksgiving weekend, Raincoast’s team of Salmon Runners will be hitting the streets of Victoria in the 32nd Annual Goodlife Fitness Marathon to raise funds for our wild salmon work…
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A woman who runs with wolves
Seaside Times
June 2011A Woman Who Runs With Wolves
By Chris GenovaliBiologist Heather Bryan is one of the lead scientists for Raincoast’s grizzly-salmon project and monitoring of carnivore systems in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love to run
By Peter Ross
For me, setting sights on the 8K Road Race at the Victoria Marathon as part of Raincoast’s ‘Salmon Run’ team was an opportunity to get into shape…
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It was only 8K
By Andrew Rosenberger
It was only 8K. When I registered for the race, that was what I kept thinking. I wasn’t worried about the other 2,681 runners and walkers in the 8K race, or about the fact that I had only been running once in the last month…
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Salmon team makes a splash at the Victoria Marathon
Together with 14,000 other runners, members of Raincoast’s salmon team took part in the kid’s run, 8 km, half marathon and full marathon events at the GoodLife Fitness Marathon on October 10th, 2010. Standing at the starting line amidst a sea of runners, I felt both excited and nervous. Many of us, including my friend,…
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Victoria marathoners pump hearts and charities
By Katherine Dedyna, Times Colonist October 7, 2010
Sunday morning’s GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon will raise a lot more than heart rates. Runners and their supporters are trying to raise $300,000 in conjunction with 22 charities. 18 local non-profits, from the Threshold Housing Society to the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
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Marathon Training: The ‘Fin’al Run
For several months now, members of the Raincoast ‘Salmon Run’ team have been scattered in various places running the trails and roads of Calgary, California, Vancouver and Victoria as they train for the upcoming Victoria Marathon. For me, I’ve been hitting the logging roads of the Broughton Archipelago on the BC coast. Despite some drawbacks…
