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Running Group banned from marathon 1

A popular Torono women’s running group “JeansMarines” has been banned from taking part in the 2006 Marine Corps Marathon in Washington. Apparently the founder of the group Dr. Jean Marmoreo led her group through a shortcut to cut of 6.4 kilometres of the race this year. Her runners made it to the finish line and ...

Collingwood Triathlon 3

I just registered for the Collingwood Triathlon on Saturday, August 6th, 2005 in Collingwood Ontario. The race I entered entails a 800 Meter swim, 32KM bike ride, and an 8KM run. I’m still a triathlon virgin, but very excited, anxious and nervous about trying it. If I enjoy it, I might perhaps enter an Olympic ...

Sunday Update 3

I ran the Sporting Life 10K race today and beat my Personal best time and ended up with 38 minutes and 49 seconds (Overall: 186th of 6339, Gender: 161st of 2976, Age Category: 11th of 97). I beat my last year’s time by only 30 seconds. I was aiming to get under 39 minutes, so ...

Defeated by Mother Nature 6

Mother Nature herself has embarrassingly defeated me. She has employed all of her high powers to conquer me, and I have submissively and without dignity conceded to her higher will. 2 days ago, the temperature was about 14 degrees Celsius. For all you old school chumps or Americans, that’s approximately 58 degrees Fahrenheit. Considerably warm ...

10K Results

The weather turned out to be nice; no rain, the sun was shining, and the temperature was probably around 10 or 11 Celsius. I ended up running the race in 41mins and 57 seconds. Not my best time, but I’m not in as good shape as I was in the summer, and the hills in ...

10K Race

I’m running a 10K race this morning at the Toronto Zoo. I’m not looking forward to it though, it’s 8 degrees celsius outside right now, and they are calling for isolated showers this morning. So I get to run the race cold and wet. I guess it’s better than running in extreme hot weather. Wish ...