As we gear up for our big team fall goals at the Chicago Marathon and the Run Waterloo Fall Classic, we had a number of different athletes priming their legs at different races. Here’s how we did:
Zoo Run
This highly competitive race held by the Canadian Running Series was WON by Erin McClure with an outstanding time of 35:47. This is especially impressive given the winding and highly nature of this course.
Harvest Half and 1/4 Marathon
Half Summary
The top 5 on our team (consisting of coach Gill, Holger, Graham, Howie, Eric) won the team event with an average time of 1:39. Check out the Run Waterloo Recap HERE.
In the half Coach Gillian surprised as a last minute entrant and managed to walk away with a great new 1:28:40 PB and OA win for women (along with $200 cash!).
Using the half as a primer for Chicago, Holger ran a solid 1:34, good for 1st in his AG and 8th OA.
Graham was using this race as a progression/tempo effort as her preps for Run for the Toad, coming in with perfect execution and a finish time of 1:42. This gave him 2nd in his AG and 18th OA.
Howie was also using this as a primer for Chicago, running a tempo effort but still coming within seconds of a life-time PB. He placed 3rd in his AG with a 1:44 finish.
Jody Rice ran a very strong 1:45:56, good for 4th in his AG!
Eric was back in action for the first time since Chicopee, running a great 1:48.
Manny was also using this effort as a training/ test session for Chicago. She exceeded her goal tempo pace by 7s/K, placing 3rd in her AG with a 1:48!
New H+P-er Matt Widmeyer had a goal of running sub 2:00 for a PB. WELL he destroyed that by 11 minutes, running 1:49 and placing 3rd in his AG!
Jon Krys was up next for the team with a great new PB of 1:51 placing 6th in his AG.
1/4 Summary:
Jeff Martin was in first for the team with a 3rd place OA finish and a massive 44:48 finish time, taking almost 40s off of his 10K time (which is a shorter distance) from ENDURrun! Now that’s progress!
Anne was in next for the team with a massive 46:23 finish winning the event OA for women! This was a massive 6 minute PB over her time from last year.
Jeremy Haak had a solid race coming of a knee injury, posting a 50:04 finish time and winning his AG!
Jen had another solid outing, finishing in 1:13 and placing 2nd in her category!
Oakville HM
Kailey had an amazing performance at the Oakville half! She posted an outstanding new PB of 1:28:17, good for 3rd OA in a deep and very competitive field!
Onwards to Chicago and the Fall Classic!
#cantwontstop
