Local Sports

Beginner's luck definitely does not apply when it comes to racing more than 100 miles (160 km) on foot.

Windsurfers and kiteboarders united for the first time in a Canadian national competition event at the Spit last weekend. Sunny skies signaled strong winds on Friday (Aug.

The Squamish Pirates Swim Club lost its regional meet because of the rock slide but that didn't stop 19 athletes from swashbuckling down the Howe Sound to compete at the replacement North Vancouver Winter Club venue on Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 2-3).

Team Squamish riders brought home bronze medals from the BC Summer Games in Kelowna last weekend (July 25-27).

The GearJammer is Colin Kerr's kind of race.

A group of athletes descended on Nexen Beach last weekend to celebrate the emergence of an activity that is teetering on the cusp of widespread popularity.

Sitting with heat exhaustion in an ice cooler about 160 kilometres between Death Valley and Mount Whitney should freeze anyone's desire to keep running.

The Howe Sound Men's Fastball League favourites opened the playoffs with victories on Tuesday (July 22) at Brennan Park.The first-placed B&B Excavating Diggers beat the Masters 7-2 in the early game before the second-placed Hunter John Co. Ltd.

Squamish's Steve Townshend and Utah's Lauren Lee leapt large to win the Flashed Dyno Competition at the Adventure Centre on Sunday (July 20).Townshend, 27, battled pain from a recent back injury to stick a hold 2.

The B&B Excavating Diggers found sweet revenge against the Nova Reinforcing Juniors with a mercy win to close off the season at the top of the Howe Sound Men's Fastball League (HSMFL) on Tuesday (July 15).