Man, no matter what I do I can't even break 3:30. Let alone qualify for Boston! Thanks to everyone who turned out to cheer: Natalie, Myron and Penny, my folks, Jody, Cam and Allie, Barb, Sally and Nina, Isaac, Tam, Kate, Myles and Emma. Here's how we did. More later. In the meantime, here's an essay I wrote about marathons for the National Post.
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Hey Chris! While browsing through the Toronto waterfront marathon results, I came across your name (which led me to Google you and find this blog). Cool to see you're a fellow runner, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your training articles. I figured I'd offer my encouragement that you'll someday qualify for Boston if you hang in there and keep trying.
In fact, it was a discussion with my boyfriend -- who's also wondering if he can ever reach that magic 3:16 mark -- where I insisted that qualifying for Boston is much harder if you're a guy than if you're a girl that had me perusing the TO results in the first place. (I was right, the women's qualifying times are definitely easier, both relatively and absolutely, so you can take heart in that maybe?)
The two of us are running our flat, uncrowded and hopefully fast race next weekend in France and hoping for a 3:25 or so. I'm a triathlete first and runner second, so while getting a Boston time is nice, Ironman Kona is a bigger goal. Talk about a tough race to qualify for!
And yes, your brother is very fast! Don't remember you guys being such hard-core runners in high school. Best of luck in your running endeavours!
Posted by: Maryka Sennema | November 02, 2008 at 11:04 AM