Valdir's races

Back to the index Ottawa Marathon First the 10K This year the Ottawa Race Weekend was a family affair for us, as we had three members competing in two events. My daughter was scheduled to run the half marathon, but she got injured two months before the event, so she decided to scale down to the 10K. And she said she would walk it, instead of run it, again because of her injury. My wife, upon hearing that, decided to join her for the 10K walk. So, on Saturday evening, my wife and my daughter were at the start line (together with other seven thousand people!). They had a blast, walked most of the way, did short stretches of running and even some dancing... :-) Then the marathon The following day was my turn to get to the start line, this time for the full marathon. My daughter went with me to the back of the "corrals" and even accompanied me in my warm-up exercises, we jogged together for ten minutes or so. Then  she went to the start line to see the e

Back to the index Jeux FADOQ - 5K run Once again the FADOQ piggybacked on the YMCA's Defi du Printemps for its running events. Last year the YMCA had hosted the event at the Parc Maisonneuve, but this year we were moved to the Parc Jean Drapeau, so the expectation was that the event would be even better. What a disaster it was! For me, personally, it was the worst event in terms of organization. The course had two points where it crossed itself! So we would have two streams of runners trying to pass by the same point but in perpendicular directions! I had never seen something so fantastically stupid in terms of course design, ever! I ended up taking the wrong turn at the first crossing and did a loop twice, I passed by the km 3 mark twice, which added 1.2 km to my race, so my final time ( 32m40s ) was totally off the time that I normally get in a 5K run. What a waste of my time this race was! Jeux FADOQ - 3K rapid walk Two new members, specialists in  rapid