I would like to tip my hat to Canuck running on the weekend.
-Simon Bairu crushed the Phoenix Rock'n'roll 1/2 marathon, winning in 1:02:47 (PB & CR)-When you can say this about Ryan Hall (sub 1 hour 1/2 and 2:06 marathoner), you know that you have been training well: “My coach (Jerry Schumacher) told me to make this a ten mile race and, no disrespect to Ryan, but if we didn’t win it would have been a disappointment”.
-Eric Gillis had a stellar debut marathon at the Houston marathon. He ran 2:13:52, which is one of the fastest debuts by a Canadian and the fastest marathon that a Canadian has run in a while.
Finally, a huge congrats to Gary Robbins (Vancouver, BC) & Tracy Garneau (Vernon, BC) at the HURT Hawaii 100 miler. Both set course records on this bloody hard course. The run features 24,000 feet of climb on the rugged trails in the rainforest above Honolulu.
While I don't know Tracy, I do know Gary and this is great for the sport. He works his ass off and is a great guy who will share his "stoke" for ultrarunning with anyone and everyone and I look forward to picking his brain and hitting the trail with him this summer whenever possible. His time bested Geoff Roes' 2009 CR. Geoff was recently voted the 2009 Ultra runner of the year, so Gary is playing with the big dogs.
The year has started in a BIG way...I predict lots more great running to come from the Maple Leaf...
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Congrats to the Canadian's on great performance.
faith will move mountains. ..................................................
DUDE, thanks for the shout out and all the congrats on Twitter. I'm still truly amazed by how great that all went...what did you decide upon for your big ultras this year???
GR
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