Valdir's races

Back to the index Edmonton  Marathon Last year, when we were prep aring our 2019 trip, our constraint was that we could only travel in July/August, due to my wife's work schedule. I tried to find a suitable marathon in Europe, but could find none that appealed to me. Too m any tr ail events  and other things th at did not interest me. So, I tried to find marathons here in Canada during that period. The Edmonton marathon would happen on August 18th, right at the end of our "window of opportunity ", so we took that. We have been living in Canada for more than 25 years and had never visited anywhere to the west of Toronto, so this was our chance to get to know more of our country of adoption. We planned a twelve-day vacation that started in Calgary, passed by the Canadian badlands (to see the dinosaurs) and ended in Edmonton. We had a blast, we went to many museums, did walking tours of the cities and even visited the parliament of Alberta. On Saturday,