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Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon 2009 - Race Report

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Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon 2009 - Race Report Hmmm, not the best photo ever....

Anyway, Marathon #11 complete. I was the 4:00 Pace Bunny for this race. This in itself was great because the Pacer Program for Scotia is sponsored by Asics. This meant free shoes, shorts shirt, socks and hat on top of the usual free registration that Bunnies get. The 'large' shorts and shirt however were geared towards larege Kenyans maybe, so unfortunately they will go to my daughter instead. The shoes, Asics of our choice, were to be worn for the race (or an older pair as long as they were Asics) I wore my new ones, Nimbus 11's right out of the box, which I would normally not recommend but I tried them on Friday night, wore them around the expo Saturday and deemed them worthy. That they were, and deservedly to be called a great shoe right out of the box.

I treated the race as a final long training run seeing as Toronto Goodlife Marathon in 3 weeks is my goal race. I did not taper and I did my regular runs and speed work this week skipping only my usual Saturday 10k run. A one day taper you could call it! The good part of this is that with the stress level low, I slept well on Friday and Saturday and woke up Sunday morning feeling great. I followed my usual pre race plan, eating 2 hours before the race, grabbed a coffee, picked up Nir and got to the race plenty early. The atmoshpere was good, making it an enjoyable long training run. It felt pretty easy right off the bat and right through the entire race.

I thought the course changes were fantastic and allowed us to cross paths many times to cheer and encourage our fellow clinic mates. I so so many familiar faces which was nice.

Running through our home 'hood was a treat. Passing by the 32KM 'WALL' with Anita, Julie and Duff there to greet us was also very nice.

I had a good group of people as the 4:00 pacer but no one from our group. I did have a Boston Qualifier, 50+ Glenda from Detroit, ran here first sub 4 hour marathon and crossing the line with her was awesome. She even made the 11:00 News on CITY (no mention of her faithful bunny!)

I had to run, literally right after the race to get to my son Cam's hockey game. Because we were blocked in, I had to run another km and a half to get to my car! Because of this I missed out on the fun post race festivities of watching others come in and chatting up those who finished ahead of me.

Wicked day...looking forward to Toronto Goodlife!
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