Jeux FADOQ Final 2018
Jeux FADOQ Provincial Finals The provincial finals of the FADOQ games happened in the city of St. Jerome, a small city 60 km to the north of Montreal. The athletic events (running and march) happened in the St. Jerome Polyvalent School. On a gravel track, not the best surface for speed. Arriving there I noticed a problem with the organization: we were around one hundred participants, and there was one, one port-a-potty. The day would be long... 5K run The day started with the prediction march, team event. The running h appened right after that. The 5K and the 10K were run at the same time on the 400m track. There was no chip available to calculate our time, they had volunteers checking how many laps each athlete did. The 10K people would do 25 laps, we of the 5K would do 12.5 laps. Because of that we started at opposing sides of the track. Alain Vincent, who had won in Montreal in May, started at an impossible pace, I didn't even try to follo