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Run Rite Athletics Crew

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since 2017 - no frills - all hills⁣
a faster-paced crew run⁣
thursdays at 7pm⁣
1630 notre-dame o.
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Read this: No run tonight. See you in 2024!⁣⁣Scroll past this: A big retrospective on what 2023 brought for Run Rite isn’t really necessary. The crew continues to evolve and we continue to be proud of what it was, is, and will be.⁣⁣Thank you to the founders for giving it an identity and making it something worth pouring so much energy into.⁣⁣Thank you to the dedicated few that stepped up as leaders when we needed it most.⁣⁣Thank you to @cieleathletics for hosting us from the get.⁣⁣…and as always we would be nothing without the people who just show up every Thursday. You’ve consistently shown yourselves to be immune to shitty weather and terrible routes. Every attempt to alienate you has been met with a larger number of self-flagellating lunatics the following week. This crew is cursed, and we couldn’t be happier.⁣⁣See you on Jan 4th. We like you.⁣📸: @laurent.caudrelier⁣///⁣#runritemtl #runmtl #running #montreal⁣#everyboyruns #toutlemondecourt⁣#thursdaysarecursed by @runritemtl
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3 years ago
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<< Template for end-of-year post. Convince yourself people will read it and let loose. Some variation of “Closing the door on 2024”, followed by a couple sentences saying how it’s been another banger, etc etc. Let’s pat ourselves on the back, but not hard enough to look like jerks.⁣⁣This next paragraph should have a bunch of thank yous, in no particular order: the run leaders constantly stepping up, @cieleathletics for hosting us at the HQ for another year, my forever pal @stickboyruns for driving me crazy (fences) and keeping me sane (recovery pep talks). Should probably end it off with thanking the runners who showed up all year and seem to have fun no matter what dumb shit we got cooking.⁣⁣The posts are always too damn long. Tighten it up! Use this last bit to hype people up for another year of being the laziest crew in the city. Remind them what makes us great is the people, so this “no frills all hills” approach is all we need to get by. This is both true AND it redefines your laziness as intention. Win win. Quick word about only doing brand stuff with people you know and love? Nah, sounds self-righteous and you’ve already lost your readers to the next post in their feed... a meme about “what it’s like to date a trail runner” or some shit like that. Good stuff.⁣⁣Inadvertently rhyme in the sign-off: “See you live in twenty twenty-five.” Delude yourself into believing this tantamount to “spitting bars” and leave it in.⁣⁣Add some hashtags, forget to credit the photogs and DM them to apologize before adding the tag. Pray you come up with something fresh next December 31st. >>⁣///⁣“Bar spitter”: @betternotbutch⁣Shots:⁣1,6: @derossigabriel⁣2: @payette⁣3,4,5: @gophobservation⁣⁣#running #crewlove #btgfamilia #runritemtl by @runritemtl
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2 years ago
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Run Rite is a lot of things to a lot of people. To old frogs it's a fuzzy place in the murky depths of our memories where we ran and drank to excess, flowing into glassy-eyed Friday mornings, productivity an un-dreamable dream. It's the build-ups before the sign-ups. Innocent conversations leading to "bad" decisions.⁣⁣To the newer cats and dogs it might be an "introduction" to how we can learn to appreciate the pain. Make peace with it. Fall in love with it. To witness potential and to realize it (a fancy way of saying "don't let Marty win every uphill"). ⁣⁣To me it has been everything. A point of pride, a creative outlet, the highlight of every. damn. week. for almost 6 years. YOU have been a highlight. Whether we've chatted on one of those Thursdays or not, I saw you.⁣⁣I think it has, and will CONTINUE to be, successful in its mission of performance without pretense, in the hands of people who care about it just as much as I did. Run by and with runners, not influencers. We've made no effort to be found, but you've found us. ⁣⁣Never forget that you define run culture in your city, not the stuff you wear or whoever is pumping the cash into the events we go to. Those will always be around and they are a beneficial tool, not the product. Be kind to, supportive of, there for each other and you are doing your part to extend the brilliant Montreal scene to the rest of the world.⁣⁣Thank you all so much. I like you and will see y'all on these streets (and trails when I'm feeling filthy)⁣@betternotbutch⁣///⁣#crewlove <- the only one that matters by @runritemtl
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3 years ago
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This is an appreciation post.⁣(he is NOT leaving RR!!)⁣As I’m sitting here putting my thoughts together, it’s clear I’ll have difficulty expressing myself without it sounding like a eulogy. Quite the opposite. It isn’t the “end” of anything and he’s not going anywhere. I just wanted to publicly underline something that has been on my mind recently.⁣⁣This week my close friend and RRAC co-founder Martin, “Stick Boy” to most of you, is making a change and moving on from his role at Ciele. In the few short years he’s occupied the position, I’ve had the pleasure of watching him work tirelessly greasing the wheels of an evolving Montreal running scene.⁣⁣I’m sure RR won’t be alone this week in giving the man his flowers. He has had a large hand in making sure so many of us have received the support we needed to keep the local running landscape fun, engaging, and a little bit drunk. Wherever he lands will surely benefit from his years of experience banging 2 cowbells together for 6 hours straight while I beg him to cut it out.⁣⁣I knew him before and I’ll know him a long time after. At the very least he’s booked to sing a Hall and Oates medley at my funeral (bring earplugs). The real takeaway and the only thing that matters in the end is: he’ll hate that I posted this and he can kiss my ass.⁣⁣See you every Thursday, jerk.⁣Love, Butchy. ///📷: @sanchezcris by @runritemtl
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17 days ago
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This Thursday’s RR session will be a bit different. Our friends at Norda and Ciele are throwing a party! Two locals we have been proud to hang with over the years and we are stoked to be taking care of the running component.⁣⁣Show up early (6PM) if you wanna demo some Norda 005’s on the run.⁣⁣You can expect 10km with a bunch of hills and trails, covering most of the Mont-Royal landmarks we’ve learned to take for granted. ⁣⁣READ THIS: We will likely be significantly more than usual, but our approach will remain the same. We will move as quickly as the back of the pack will allow, with the gunners at the front doing frequent loopbacks to keep the group together. Be patient, put in work, and if someone next to you is struggling, encourage them.⁣⁣There will be food and drinks, both alc and non-alc, waiting for us at the end (thanks Norda and Ciele) so we can effortlessly transition to our post-run vices. ⁣⁣Be sure to sign up with the link in the @ciele.espace.mtl bio so they can order enough supplies! ⁣⁣📷: 1) @presumablycorey - 2) @quentin.andrup by @runritemtl
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2 months ago
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Friends, it’s race week. Break out of your coffins, squint at some daylight, go touch some mud. We are weather-beaten, wind-cracked, wine-soaked and it’s time for whatever the hell this place calls “spring”. Here are a couple things we are doing, and you should consider doing as well.⁣⁣Thursday. This week ONLY: our Run Rite session will include a “run lite” option (7-8km, slower and WAY less hills), open to all but especially for those who don’t want to immolate their glutes and hammies before Sunday. Regular Run Rite option will remain as usual a 10-13km, many hills, as fast as our lungs will allow. Martin and the team @ciele.espace.mtl will be providing ¡BEER!, further cementing their legacy as perfect hosts to questionable people.⁣⁣Sunday. 8AM - Cheer squad for the 21k de Montreal. Come watch your friends live their dreams, or get destroyed by their own hubris. Ciele will provide enough mimosas for a Real Housewives funeral (anyone who’s watched TV in the last 10 years feel free to hmu with a more recent reference). Sharing the spot with some of our favourite MTL crews. There’s no way the weather can be worse than last year RIIIIGHT?! See the map on slide 2 I made last April since I can’t improve it. Loc: 45.508793, -73.529003 .⁣⁣After-party at Ciele Espace, 1630 Notre-Dame O., 5PM Sunday. Free beer and pizza and counseling (I’m a good listener)⁣⁣Love you bye. by @runritemtl
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3 months ago
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Hi. We are doing 21km this Thursday.⁣450m D+ for those who care about such things.⁣It will take around 3 hours (hopefully)⁣⁣Why? Oh I don’t know... take your pick: end of a big year, we do dumb shit sometimes, some of us consider this as our “social life”. Looking for a reason while being unreasonable...⁣⁣At the halfway mark, we will be showing up to friend of the crew and @xactnutrition founder @lawrencecolsell ‘s actual house to refuel. He’s freed himself up from a busy cage fighting career to help us and we should all give him a big sweaty hug. Thank you, sir!⁣ Also, shout out to Marty and Karel @ciele.espace.mtl for hosting a late one. Xox⁣Otherwise, we are self-supported as we have always been, so plan accordingly (water,headlamp,road flares, etc).⁣⁣See you Thursday... and maybe the early hours of Friday if we get lost.⁣Butch by @runritemtl
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8 months ago
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from 8:30am-ish until the final runner limps by, we cheer. until the voice goes hoarse, until the hands hurt, we will cheer. (until martin has smashed at least 3 bells, he will cheer)here is a map to the spot. painstakingly screen-capped from a random website, with some courier new over it to justify my wage.thank you to Ciele for bringing the mimosas and maybe beers (NA and not?), we heard Altra’s bringing grill-cheese sandwiches (they were fire last year!), i’m perhaps forgetting some collaborators on that side but big shout out to brands that know how to get involved without making it about them. your support is noticed and appreciated.shout out to the crews cheering all along the course! we hope to get to share a spot with you someday.to @48.45n, @uptemporunning, @courcellerunclub, @urc.m, @ndgruns and anyone else we have the privilege of sharing this spot with this year: we look forward to helping you inspire most of em, amuse some of em, and unavoidably annoy a few of em. this is the way. by @runritemtl
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10 months ago
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Run Rite is 8 now. 8 years. I (think I) could write a book about everything that has changed in the landscape of crew running in Montreal over that span. It would be replete with gentle mis-truths, gross misrepresentations, outright lies, and a dose of salaciousness that would make your head spin RIGHT OFF! But seeing as we are here and now, and I exclusively deal in peddling half-baked social media captions, we will once again tread familiar territory. It’s cozy, it works, who gives a shit.⁣⁣Run Rite has never sought Growth. More isn’t inherently better. It has never fought to remain the same either. Run Rite has been and remains a beneficiary of consistency and natural evolution. A process that produces good results to be nurtured in the same measure as bad results to be addressed. Its ambition, if you can call it that, has forever been to challenge as wide a range of people as can be. These people must be patient with those around them and be drawn to a particular brand of suffering. Now, the Venn diagram area labeled “empathetic masochists” is pretty fucking slim, but we’ll take as many of you as we can get.⁣⁣It’s also just a fucking Thursday nite run, right?⁣⁣Thanks as usual go to the run leaders who selflessly give their time and efforts to ensure nobody is left behind, struck by an errant Land Rover, devoured by wolves. To the staff at Ciele, who host us, run with us, buy us FREE BEERS FOR TONIGHT, and have supported in all ways that matter. To my favourite trail runner and great friend Martin, who pulled me back when I drifted and keeps it fun despite my efforts to instill order. Oh right… and the runners! We like you a lot. I say it every week. Keep giving us your Thursday nights and we’ll keep trying to fill the hole in your heart that goddamn cat never could.⁣⁣See you Thursday.⁣⁣(For real Ciele bought beers, and I’m on strike two at work, so please come help)⁣Pictures: @secondreveil and @laurent.caudrelier⁣Words: @betternotbutch by @runritemtl
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10 months ago
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MTL road race season 2025 kicking off this weekend! Here we go! 6 months of training through hoarfrost, wolves, eating cold beans over an oil drum fire between intervals. It’s time to cash in or crash out.⁣⁣Here are a few things going on (if I miss something and the beer is free... comment below)⁣⁣Thursday Apr 24: ⁣7PM - Run Rite as always plus THIS WEEK ONLY our award-winning Run Lite (7km-ish, flat-ish, slow-ish) for you softies (we love you) - Ciele HQ (1630 Notre-Dame O.) ***Free beer provided by the homies at Ciele/Siboire. Thank you!⁣⁣Friday Apr 25 (Shakeouts! Take your pick): ⁣6PM - Sport Experts downtown (St Cats) - @cieleathletics 5k with post- beer/snacks/prizes ⁣6PM - Le Club Cafe (St-Denis x Roy) - @balmoralsports 5k with post NA beers⁣⁣Saturday Apr 26 (race day - afterparties): ⁣8AM - MTL crews cheer squad (km 9.5 and 11.5 of half marathon course). Music, mimosas, probably some beers. Feel free to bring a little something. Please see the post I did for last years race for the location (https://shorturl.at/aAOTY)! There are other crew cheer squads as well and we’ll likely gravitate towards those late race to get rid of any left over booze. Spread crew love, goddamit!⁣⁣10:30AM - 2:30PM - @cieleathletics post-race BBQ in the finish line area of the 21km de Montreal. Beers food music. Link for tickets can be found in the Ciele IG bio. Great way to soak up those mimosas.⁣⁣8PM - @balmoralsports “Half-terparty” at Double’s (corner Parc / Fairmount). Buy a beer get 1$ wings... a deal if I ever heard of one.⁣⁣Sunday Apr 27th (RA125): ⁣8AM - 1630 Notre-Dame O. - from the local street racing OGs at @runk_series: RA125. An unsanctioned 125km loop of the island of MTL, to be done in either team or solo. Come watch the start, or show up around 2:30PM to see if anyone can beat the ridiculous course record of 7h11m. Link in their bio for more info.⁣⁣Dim (pictured above) will be there, and so should you. (📸: @presumablycorey - map: me) by @runritemtl
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a year ago
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It’s a huge week for us. Ciele turns 10 and simply put, Run Rite would not exist without it: an idea born from co-founder Jeremy Bresnan’s desire to move people to movement in a neighbourhood that needed it (we miss you NDG and we are happy you’re doing well). While it is true that in the subsequent years Run Rite has independently developed its own approach, philosophy and vision, the support we have received from Ciele is inextricably linked to our own growth and success. Thank you.⁣⁣My (@betternotbutch) own journey as a runner, which coincidentally started just a few months before Ciele’s inception, owes many of its finest moments to it. Why a performance apparel company would willingly choose to entertain the whims and creative endeavors of an aggressively mid-pack dreamer is beyond me, but I suppose that says more about Ciele’s ethos than I ever could in an already overwrought caption. Thank you.⁣⁣So this Thursday, August 15th, we will celebrate and be celebrated by our friends at Ciele in the only way we know how: free beer (shout out to @cieleathletics and the geniuses @wills.beer for hooking it up). There will also be a photo expo featuring a small selection from the thousands taken by @gophobservation in the early years (2017-2018) of RR: P-A (@p_hair_cardinal) is gloriously shirtless, Marty (@stickboyruns) has a beard and hair, Lecia (@loopin_lecia) looks fast as fuck, and I look gassed and battered... most things never change.⁣⁣Happy birthday, Ciele. See you Thursday.⁣///⁣photo:@gophobservation⁣#runritemtl #everybodyrun #toutlemondecourt⁣#runmtl #crewlove #montreal by @runritemtl
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2 years ago
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Hey, it’s been a while. Race week. Tons of shit going on. Here is some of it.⁣⁣Thursday 7PM: Weekly Run Rite (SLIGHTLY shorter since a few of you got work to do - the route counsel is meeting later today on a zoom from Stonehenge)⁣⁣Friday 6PM: shakeout/pizza at Ciele Espace (1630 Notre-Dame O - @cieleathletique)⁣⁣Saturday 8AM: 21k de Montreal - MTL crews cheer squad/station/zone/mob (look at the map... took me 3 hours to make it with GIMP since I can’t afford Photoshop, but if you find us I’ll consider it a win). Ciele is paying for booze so come get it.⁣⁣Saturday 2PM: Race after party at the new Siboire location in St-Henri (3734 Notre-Dame O - @siboire_microbrasserie)⁣⁣Sunday 8AM: Start of the RUNK Series RA125 v5 from Ciele Espace, with 1st teams (and solo runners) expected to complete the 125km loop of the island at 3PM ish. Beers after if you have any soul left to destroy.⁣⁣Monday 7AM: Email boss “Got food poisoning. Bad shrimp? Call me if anything but I’ll see you tomorrow. xoxo”. Sleep 17 extra hours.⁣⁣We hope to see you for some of it, all of it, or...none of it (you know who you are).⁣///⁣great shot: @mrbonsoir⁣shitty map: @betternotbutch⁣⁣#runritemtl #mtlrunning #run #running #mtlcrews #crewlove #montreal by @runritemtl
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2 years ago
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