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PB list Distance PB Event 5K 23m13s Petit Train du Nord 2025 10K 48m59s Petit Train du Nord 2025 3K (march) 18m46s FADOQ 2019 (Trois-Rivières) * Half marathon 1h49m14s Petit Train du Nord 2025 Marathon 4h00m50s Munich 2022 * The distance was not even 2.8 Km. Race list Click on the city name to read my full report of the event: Date City Country Race type Time Comment 2011/09/25 Montreal Canada Half marathon 2h52m56s Walking 2012/06/30 Båstad Sweden Half marathon 2h41m21s 2012/08/12 Mont Tremblant Canada Half marathon 2h30m22s 2012/09/23 Montreal Canada Half marathon 2h20m36s 2013/05/19 Copenhagen Denmark Marathon 5h24m33s 2013/08/11 Mont Tremblant Canada Half marathon 2h07m30s 2013/11/10 Athens Greece Marathon 5h38m10s 2014/05/25 Ottawa Canada Marathon 5h06m23s 2014/08/16 Helsinki Finland Marathon 5h04m18s 2014/09/28 Montreal Canada Maratho...
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Athens in 2013

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Back to the index Celebrating my 50 in style! This year I was going to celebrate my 50th birthday, so I wanted to do something special for the occasion. How about running the original marathon , the one that gave birth to all others? A pretty good idea, isn't it? So, off to Greece we go! A little bit of history "The marathon course is based on the myth from which the race gained its name: Pheidippides, a messenger in Ancient Greece, ran from the Battle of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greeks' victory over the Persians." ( Wikipedia article on the Athens Marathon) Sightseeing before the race My wife and I arrived in Greece ten days before the race and spent our time there sightseeing. This was our third time in Greece, so we kind of know the place by now... ;-) We went to see the Parthenon, of course: We did a cruise by boat: I went to Delphi to ask the oracle there for a safe race... ;-): Days before the race I visited the Pan...
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Ottawa Fall Colours

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Back to the index My last race of the year I did in Ontario, in the city of Cumberland, near Ottawa. They even call the event "Ottawa Fall Colours", to make it more marketable. My wife and I spent a night in a hotel nearby. The room was quite bigger than I'm used to. I liked it a lot. We tried to get the bib the day before, but we got there twenty minutes late, they only stayed open until 3 pm on the Saturday before the race. No problem, we would just get the bib the next day, before the race. So, on Sunday morning we checked out of the hotel shortly after 7h40 and drove the ten minutes or so to the Cumberland Heritage Museum. We parked the car on the lawn near the museum and walked the rest of the way. Getting the bib was quite easy. The timing chip was different than usual, it was an anklet. Before the main race there was a children's race. Many parents were running with their little children. One of them was a father who was disguised as a chef and his daughter...
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