Is anything better than the rush of race day?
(Actually, there is. It’s successfully putting a new hard drive into your MacBook and fixing it so you can start blogging again regularly. Yes guy!)
Today, I jogged from home down to High Park to catch the Toronto Marathon at the 30k mark. Little did I know that the organizers had actually changed the route at some point since the summer and it went out along the Martin Goodman trail to Humber Bay.
Apparently I wasn’t the only person asleep at the switch. I saw two other people asking race bike marshals what happened. Anybody know why?
I have some strong impressions from this admittedly limited exposure. And let’s just say it wasn’t good. But I want to hear from anyone who ran the race before I sound off.
Read all about it. Congrats to the men’s (Charles Bedley) and women’s (Leslie Black) winners.
I’ve always wondered why Toronto had two marathons within two weeks of each other. I know one is supposed to be the “people’s marathon” but why not hold one of them in the spring?
In a related note, if you’re not marathoned out, you can run a 21K from the Nike Runner’s Lounge on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. to support of the 15,000 women who will be simultaneously running in the San Francisco Nike Women’s Marathon, an event that will be raising funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
If you don’t feel like doing a half marathon, there are also 5K and 10K runs.
And just like in a regular race, there will be water stations and post-run massages. While participants in Toronto don’t get the Tiffany’s necklace for finishing, there are pedicare stations!!!
I don’t think they officially explained why they changed the course, but i think it’s actually pretty good route as you don’t have to run on the highway and be closer to the water. I was watching the runners from Queens Quay and Spadina and I was wondering how they would fill out the paths but it seem spaced out enough..