I just registered for both Toronto Marathons this fall. The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon and the Goodlife Fitness Marathon. Two marathons in 3 weeks seems like a lot but I ran the Ottawa marathon and than the Niagara Ultra 50km which was 3 weeks apart so I think I should be good, lets just hope that I keep up my training. 

Originally I wanted to be able to do both Toronto Marathons because there was serious talk about cancelling one of the marathons because there had been too much public complaint of road closers in the Toronto core. Serious, with all the talk about our race becoming overweight traffic congestion and drivers should never have the ability to prevent an an athletic event, especially one like running and marathons, they draw huge numbers into the city and give people goals to aim towards athletically, whether it is a 5km foot race or a ultra I feel the promotion of any physical activity should prevail. That is just my thought though. 

Anyways here are some pictures and my results from the Niagara Ultra and Ottawa Race Weekend that I hadn’t had time to upload until now.

Ottawa Race Weekend 

At Ottawa Race Weekend the following is what I was doing:

Niagara Ultra

At the Niagara 50km I ran the following:

 46 184 Jordan Shaw 4:58:00 LM-39 14/28 38 5:58 4:57:43 Toronto 

This morning I got out for one last long run before the Ottawa Marathon. I wasn’t pushing myself and did a 16miler. Also, after about a year of having a GARMIN Forerunner I finally installed the program to log my runs. It’s pretty amazing. As seen below for this run. If anyone is in the Scarborough area and wants to take a look/run some of my routes I have an account with MapMyRun and this route can be seen here. I don’t use their iPhone app for training but I use it to keep a more accurate and shareable route with others.

I am getting excited for Ottawa next weekend!!

Who’s run an ultra before? Is it worth doing? Was it harder/easier than you thought it would be? Any different training than a marathon other than ‘running farther’? Would you do another? I’m seriously considering them.