Miami Marathon and Half Marathon By Flo Atkins

We just arrived in Miami from a 7 day Eastern Caribbean Cruise with the Run N’ Fun group (www.runtheworld.ca) which Ken and I took after I ran the Miami Half Marathon on January 25th,2009. I enjoyed running the Miami Half Marathon, but the after race cruise was fantastic. We went on the Carnival Valor. Our guest speaker for the cruise was Frank Shorter who was a gold medallist in 1972 Olympic and a silver medallist in the Montreal 1976 Olympics.

He gave several seminars and we had an organized run on the island of St Maarten with some of their local runners. It was amazing to run with Frank Shorter and the local runners. The newspaper media was there interviewing Frank and taking pictures of our running group. We all felt like celebrities. It was very hot and a very hilly 8km course, but great fun to run on the sandy beach. We also had runs on the running track on the ship. We had various social events with our running group including a Meet N Greet breakfast event in Miami to kick off the weekend, a pre-race carbo loading dinner on Saturday night before the race and Miami Mixer on the ship and many others.

Joe DeLorenzis is the travel consultant and Theresa Edmonson the running consultant who go out of their way to make this an unforgettable holiday. They are having another cruise next year after the Miami Marathon and we hope to be part of it again. Next year it’s a 7 day Western Caribbean cruise and I highly recommend this to anyone who loves to run. There were many family members who came along who did not run the marathon, but were part of the cruise holiday. Now I have to get ready to run the Sudbury Hypothermic Half Marathon run on February 15th, 2009 BRRRRR

 

 

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Annual General Meeting

Everyone’s welcome, it’s your team
Have fun, train hard and train smart
You get what you give – one step/stroke at a time

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting
Tuesday February 10th at 8:30pm

Club fees can be submitted at this time.
If you are unable to attend or
For more information, please contact us at:
info@nickelcitytri.com

This is a Toronto story but maybe something for the City of Greater Sudbury runners to consider advocating for in our city.

CHRISTOPHER SHULGAN

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

January 31, 2009 at 2:48 AM EST

TORONTO — One recent Sunday morning, I headed out for a run. Because of the 10-centimetre snowfall the previous evening, the first kilometre happened over pitted frozen single-track. Also on the sidewalk were a few early-morning pedestrians – churchgoers, mostly. I came up behind one of them and slowed until I was running in place. Frustration mounting, I tried to get past and lurched into a knee-high snowbank. I stumbled, caught myself, nearly stumbled again, moved on.

Winter running tends to be full of such moments. It's bad enough that the activity forces men to wear tights. When these are paired with the bright hues that grace the jackets manufactured by Nike and New Balance, even the most masculine runner resembles a medieval harlequin – whose feet slide out from under him at icy corners, whose shoes get soaked in freezing puddles. Read all the story at: www.theglobeandmail.com

See you on Saturday.