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 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!

I’m pretty excited I get to do a nice run through High Park this morning. I haven’t really have had much time since I moved into the Parkdale area - I’ve managed to get one High Park run in. While looking for hill training routes around Toronto I came across this blog post on TorontoRunner.com with what seems to be a nice 27KM long run! I don’t have time today but maybe tomorrow I’ll test out the route, at least in the next week or so.

I have also came across a list of routes on the Running Room’s site with 38 routes sprouting out from the Bloor West store. Definitely something to look into.

Anyways I’m off to High Park and the Lake Shore for a run. Have everyones a nice long weekend!