On April 11, 2010 is the Paris Marathon.  The marathon does not have a lottery system, it’s on a first come first serve basis.  The Paris Marathon is pretty popular.  They max at 40k runners and when registration opened in September it sold out in less than 2 months.  The spots are distributed...

Congratulations on completing your marathon. Whether it be your first or fifteenth, it’s always a great feeling to run or … crawl across that finish line.  You did what a lot of people cannot do, run 26.2 miles!! Now you must be having problems going up and down stairs, walking fast, whole...

I completed the Toronto Marathon today and it was as cold as I remembered when I ran the half a few years ago.  This time they had enough buses waiting for us at the designated pickup locations and operated pretty efficiently.  Except that my bus driver didn’t know which route to the Arts Center...

I don’t know why marathons in Toronto don’t have a proper map of their course.   There isn’t information on course elevation or exact course turn around points or even the finish line.   I mapped out the Toronto Marathon but couldn’t get it to be exact due to insufficient...

I’m counting down the days until my Scotiabank Waterfront Half Marathon.  It’s this Sunday at 7:30 am.  I haven’t stopped running, since running 2 hours or more is required for my Sunday runs in training for the Toronto Marathon in October.  I’m even thinking of running to...

Sunday September 13 is the Terry Fox Run. It’s only a 5-10km run or walk. It’s whatever your choose to do, but all money raised from the run goes towards cancer research. He’s a great inspiration to kids and adults who have cancer. Find a Terry Fox run site. For those who don’t...

Half Marathon training is just as hard as training for any road race.  I remember when I first started running, 3 miles was considered far for me, not to mention a attempting a half marathon or even a full marathon.   As a beginner in half marathon training, the key is to build up your mileage slowly. ...

The NYC Marathon is a really  great event.  Maybe I keep on saying that because it was the first marathon I ran with my friend.  We were so emotional after we finished it.  I’m really proud that she finished it and surprised that I did too.  Looking back, I’m really happy that we got...

It’s great to finally see a website dedicated to reviews on marathons, races, and triathlons. I know I’ve always had questions about how to get to a start line, which airport is the best, what kind of snacks do they give out, are their medals cool.  Racevine allows runners to post their...

The most common question about running races is how to  keep hydrated without having to stop to go to the washroom.  The worst thing for me when running any race is to stop for anything.  One time I was running this 2 mile race and my shoe laces got loose and during the race it got untied.  I saw...