Petit Train du Nord 2025

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The day before the race my wife and I walked around the parc de la rivière du nord, we also walked a bit on the petit train du nord, we got to km 36 of the marathon:


On Sunday morning I walked to the main bus stop in St. Jerôme, took the bus and went to Val-David. The ride was bumpy, I almost got a headache.

The organizers started the race a bit earlier, due to the weather forecast. I was supposed to start at 8h40, but at 8h20 we were already leaving the starting area.

The first half of the race was still cold, I was wearing my super shoes, so I got incredible results: PB on the 5K (23m13s), PB on the 10K (48m59s, first time under fifty minutes!), PB on the half marathon (1h49m14s, first time under 1h50m!).

Right after the halfway mark I stopped to walk for the first time, I wanted to eat my energy bars. I had planned to eat one at every 9 kilometers, but the pace on the first half was so good, I changed my mind and took them later.

In the second half the temperature started going up by leaps and bounds. I started seeing people being transported by paramedics, they were dropping like flies.

I walked most of the second half, it was that bad. The 4h bunny caught up with me at km 26, I stayed with that group for a kilometer and then I could no longer do it.

At km 39 I heard someone say that the race had been interrupted. Weird. At km 40 a volunteer confirmed that the race had been interrupted, I could go slower. I was going quite slow already... :-(

This is a point-to-point race, so even if they really stopped the race, I would still have to continue to St Jerôme to meet my wife, so I couldn't stop.

Later on I learned that the race director had interrupted the race at km 36 at 12h30, so the volunteers were given the wrong information. People who were past that point at that time could finish their race.

I crossed the finish line in 4h27m34s, not even a top-5 result. Disappointing, yes, but considering the heat, quite understandable.

 
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