T.O. Women's 1/2

What an awesome day! Bravo to the organizers. I think that this has quickly become a premier event: lovely course, awesome organization, great perks (chocolate and burly men!), on-site mini expo, unique "medal..."
Barrie was well represented including some category awards: well done ladies!
It's been a long time since Toronto had a women's event of this calibre (who remembers Brooks in the '80's?) and it was worth the wait.
Keep an eye on registration for next year as today's run was full within weeks by last full.

Women's Half results

Congratulations to all those who ran the Toronto Women's Half Marathon today. Some great results including Hellaina Rothenburg who came in 21st place. Here are all the results for local racers:

Toronto Womens Half Marathon

Good luck to all the ladies off to Toronto this weekend for the Womens Half Marathon. Remember to behave yourselves, lol.

Ottawa Race results etc.

Regardless of the results good or bad, I think everyone had a great weekend in Ottawa as usual. There were some great runs though, Victoria Northcott (4:00), Brian Chew (3:34) and Robin Lesperance (3:39) all qualified for Boston. See below for all the results:

BarrieRunners in the Marathon

Orillia Runners in the Marathon

Half Marathon

Ottawa Race Weekend

It is the site of an annual pilgrimage for many Barrie RoadRunners, and this weekend there will a bus load and then some on their way to Ottawa for one of the many events this weekend. Whether it is the 5k or the Marathon, the half or the 10k Good Luck to everyone.

RoadRunner Shirts etc

An e-mail from Barrie RoadRunenrs was sent out about 6 weeks ago to let everyone know about the process to order shirts/ singlets etc. We only had 5 responces, although we had almost 90 votes to determine what colours we would go with. So we have sent out another e-mail tonight. If you haven't recieved the e-mail check your junk mail folder or if you're not on the list e-mail us at barrie.roadrunners@gmail.com


to see the styles click on the picture.


Womens cuts are avialable!

IMPORTANT: To order send an e-mail to weeboy@rogers.com with the number of and style of shirts the prices are on the bottom of the picture.

Great Wall Marathon

Today Clarence Wang finished one of the toughest marathons in the world. He completed the Great Wall of China Marathon in a time of 7:39:36. A great feat Clarence way to go. Too see more see the attached video:

Mississauga Marathon & Half

Looks Barrie and area we're well represented at the Mississauga Marathon this morning with some good times, Alan Hewson finishing the marahon in 3:45 ( I think he is a little happy). Rick MacLean and Snadra Lalonde should be congratulated for completing the half in under 2 hours, after yesterdays muddy 25k at the Pick Your Poison trail races. That's 46.1k each. For all the results follow the links below.

Mississauga Marathon

Half Marathon

Pick Your Poison

What started out to be a beautiful morning, quickly turned into a muddy quagmire. At the inaugural Pick Your Poison trail races quite few RoadRunners took on the challenge. The race was only 5 minutes old when the rain started and for the first 25k it more or less poured down. First impressions were that the course was challenging, but at the same time a good course for trail running. a lot of single track. Unfortunately, because of the rain the condistions dictated that this race would be a race of atrition. The majority of our runners were competing in the 25k race, for some their first attempt at a trail race of this distance. All finished and were happy with that (at this point results haven't been posted). as this is a 12.5k loop course everyone doing the loop a second, third or fourth time found the footing got steadily worse. For most of us this was a run to test ourselves not so much a race and this played a part in the 50k particpants finishes or non- finishes. Non of our 50k competitors finsihed the race, Kevin O'Neill and Oliver Owens giving up after 2 laps, Kevin after a fall. Keith Lascelles almost finsihed the third lap.
Our successfull 25k finishers were, Terry McFarlane, Sandra Lalonde, Hellaina Rothenburg, Krista Bolyea (1st female)and Rick MacLean. See the slideshow for some pictures.

This Weekends Races

Some of the races that are happening this weekend:

Saturday - Pick Your Poison trail races (12.5k/ 25k/ 50k)

Sunday - Mississauga Marathon and Half Marathon

Good luck to everyone taking part.

Belfast Marathon

Roger Ison completed his 5th marathon of the year today (Monday) in Belfast, Northern Ireland in a time of 3:48. Well done Roger!

Sudbury Rocks Marathon

The Sudbury Rocks results can be found below, these include Dan Hamel 2nd female, 6th overall, and 1st in the 50-59 age category. alos Nancy Chong 3rd female, 9th overall and 1st in her age category.

Marathon results

Half Marathon results

Sporting Life 10k

There were some great results at the Sporting Life 10k in Toronto on Sunday. For the results click:

Barrie

Orillia

Innisfil