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Author: Paul Radcliffe
April 26, 2012
Mississauga Marathon Recon
The final leg of the “Southern Ontario Triple Crown” is fast approaching. My reconnaissance post about the Valley Inn Road hill for Around The Bay was very popular, so I thought I’d do something similar in the lead-up to the Mississauga Marathon and Half-Marathon. I run many parts of this course on a regular basis, so I have experience not only running the full route, but also running many variations of it. The Mississauga Marathon’s website provides pretty good details, including a printable PDF map and a Google Maps based version: Full and Half-Marathon Printable Map Half-Marathon gmap Full-Marathon gmap[…continue reading]
April 24, 2012
The London Incident: Virgin London Marathon 2012 Race Report
Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2012/04/22 Virgin London Marathon >4:34:44 6:15:52 This is a story of hope, fear, foolishness, failure, massive willpower, even more foolishness and consolation. Here’s how six months of training went down the toilet, literally. In spring 2011, when I entered the lottery to run the Virgin London Marathon, I hadn’t run my first marathon yet. A lousy time at my second marathon in October 2011 made me consider quitting marathons. My spirits were buoyed when I surprisingly won an entry to run the London Marathon, one of the World Marathon Majors! London was[…continue reading]
April 21, 2012
Virgin London Marathon Pre-race Thoughts
I’m running the Virgin London Marathon tomorrow morning. Things have not gone as planned. Common pre-race logic is to eat familiar food and get a good rest before a race. Being away at a destination race makes that almost impossible: If the jetlag wasn’t bad enough, I haven’t had a good night sleep in days because I’m not used to hotel beds. I also nearly broke myself yesterday because I had to carry our two 50 pound bags up hundreds of stairs and across all sorts of subway platforms. The exertion left me with flu-like symptoms this morning and severe[…continue reading]
