Today is the day of the 115th anual Boston Marathon. There will be a live stream of the event starting at 9AM. More information can be found on the Boston Marathon site.

I know I will be watching and so should you.

Yesterday was a great day for a race, sunny warm and the rolling hills from High Park shaded us from any potential wind. I was running a little late (as always) but made it to the baggage drop off already having done my warm-up on my jog over to the race location and headed to the start line. The event organizers — Canada Running Series were on top of their game with the event logistics. 

I placed 6th in my category with a 34:42min 8km only a few seconds behind the 5th place racer. My race specs are: 

112 34:59.1 4:23 34:42.3 1928 SHAW, JORDAN TORONTO 92/1095 6/52 Men 20 - 24  

Full HRSRO 8KM results are also available on their results page.

This has been the shortest race I have taken part in and there’s lots I can learn from it with pacing and how to train for shorter runs and in the case of the Spring Run-Off the importance of hill training; which I need to work on. I was happy with my time, the event was great, I got a medal and this wicked athletic running cap! 

Harry’s Spring Run-Off also raises awareness for Prostate Cancer benefiting the Princes Margret Hospital Foundation and beat the projected donation goal of $300,000 by 111% raising a total of $335,120.83. Great Stuff!

See ya’ll’s at the next one!

Who’s doing the Sporting Life 10KM May 1st?

The second Toronto Marathon this fall is the GoodLife Fitness Marathon which is tomorrow. I’m just heading to bed right now and thought I better check the times and route for tomorrow. I’m pretty glad I did as the start is at 9:00AM and NOT 7:30AM and the finish is at Queens Park and NOT City Hall. What does this mean? Well it means I can get roughly one extra hour of sleep! The race route is located on this available map.

As well the route seems to be mainly all downhill which should be interesting.

Well I’m off to bed. Good luck to everyone tomorrow.

Sunday was a great day for a run, and an even better day for a marathon. Starting with the temperature around 9 degrees and a partially overcast later parting way for calm and sunny morning. 

Being well rested in the morning I woke up, had breakfast and warmed up on my run to the starting line. Having not run all week except for the 6 miles Saturday morning I was a bit hesitant on how my performance will be. The week before I was having a little too much fun running trails around High Park and tweaked my left knee a bit. 

This was the first marathon that I did not travel to which made it feel almost as if it wasn’t real - strange I know.

The turn out was fantastic even at 7am the course was lined with people cheering the full and half marathoners on. All of the volunteers at the stations were always on top of their game  and the police were keeping the traffic off the course. 

I ran my personal best with a chip time of 3:33:46.4 that is ~ 13 minutes faster than my previous PB in Ottawa earlier this year! If you knew anyone who ran or want to check out some of the results make sure you get over to Sports Stats results page.

This was the first time my parents came out and saw me run (thanks for the pictures!)

The Globe and Mail also did a article on the top finishers of the race.

I think I might need to start doing some sort of action at the finish line… even waving your hands in the air seems more entertaining than just finishing the race. What are your thoughts what should I do from now on when I cross the finish line?

The Terry Fox Run is tomorrow, September 19th 2010 and there’s a few run sites around Toronto and the world. Find the closest run site and get out there and participate!

I’m participating at the High Park run site. I hope to see everyone out there!