Boreal Club

NEW MEMBER INFORMATION

Would you like to know more about our club or are you thinking of joining?

The Boreal Runners Club offers group running sessions three days a week on Monday and Wednesday evenings and on Saturday mornings.

Mondays feature tempo runs, while Wednesday track sessions with our coach tend to focus on technique and speed work and Saturdays mornings are for our long, slow runs that build endurance.

Coach Alvaro Cueto Muñoz (at right) provides our members with separate training plans depending on the distances that they run.

''I started my road running career at age 34 and have since completed more than 100 timed races. I was able to quickly improve my performance by participating in many events (46 in 2016, 32 in 2017, 40 in 2018 and 40 in 2019) and getting good times. I regularly place on podiums and this has allowed me to meet hundreds of people and organizations all across Quebec. As a coach, I advocate: - Long-term athlete development (balance between training, competition and recuperation). I take into account biological age and development age (how many years you have been running); - Emphasis on 5 elements to improve performance: Endurance, Strength, Speed, Skill and Flexibility. My coaching will always take into account these 5 elements; - An emotional state prone to effective mental preparation: motivation, set objectives, emotion management, confidence building. I aspire to build a psychologically healthy environment for each athlete: competing against oneself not against others, cheering on others, understanding our own limits.''

New members all receive a sleeveless technical Boreal singlet so they can proudly wear the club colours at races they run with us. Did we mention that we have lots of fun improving our running times and technique in a spirit of self-supporting camaraderie?

We invite you to try running with us first with no obligation to see if you'd like to join. Click on the "Training" link in the menu at the top of the page to see where and when you can meet us for a group run. Or just click on this link.

Brian Price (seen at left) is the liaison person for new and prospective members and he will be happy to help you and answer your questions. Have a look at some of the many races club members ran on our Members Results page.

We had an absolute blast running our official Club Half and Full Marathons in 2016. We ran the Levis Half-Marathon in the spring, and then the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in the fall, both of which were well attended by over twenty members. We also run in large numbers in the Circuit Endurance races in and around Montreal throughout the year.

If you decide to join, aside from the free singlet (seen at right), your very modest $125 per year membership fee will also give you free registration to our fall x-country race on Ile-Bizard as well as participation in our summer BBQ and big year-end party.

To see just how much fun we've had at events and races from the past few years, visit our Boreal Photos page.

Our 2018 Membership Registration Form can be found by clicking on this link.

For more info or any other questions, please email borealrunnersclub@gmail.com.