Valdir's races

Back to the index Petit Train du Nord For my last marathon of the year I chose a small event that happens to the north of Montreal, it's the Marathon du Petit Train du Nord . Even though it is a small event (or maybe because of that) it is somewhat hard to get into it, it fills up very quickly. They opened the registration around Christmas time last year and when I went to register four days later, the half marathon was already full and the full marathon was filling up fast. So I registered right away and waited ten months for the event. Unfortunately, on the Thursday prior to the race I got a nasty cold that followed me for the next few days and affected my result in the race. Even though the event happened close to Montreal my wife decided to join me for the weekend there, so we rented a room in the sponsor hotel. We arrived at our hotel Friday night and I went right away to get my bib: The event i s   so small that there is no expo for this m arathon,