North Vancouver

Thanks for forwarding this message from Nicole. It is thrilling to hear about my 'runners' doing so well on their first marathons. All the women who ran during the clinic with me were successful in completing their first marathons last weekend. Ann Marie Porth qualified for Boston and finished in 3:50 despite a nagging IT band problem. Sharon Stevens completed the marathon in 4:27 despite having really suffered with a bad IT band problem for the last 6 weeks of training. Sonia B finished in just under 4 hours completing her first marathon as well. It is amazing to hear all these great results.

My marathon in Kelowna went well even though we started out in -10 degrees! My butt cheeks were still frozen one hour in. I am not sure if you heard but there was a bit of a minor fiasco with the Kelowna marathon. Andrea and I among others did at least an extra 1/2 km when we shouldn't have. The course was not marked adequately (or properly...the km markers were all off) and the marshall who was in charge of this particular area where the mistake was made had to attend to a first aid emergency. As a result the marathoners were turning right when they should have gone left which made us do an extra little loop adding up to about an extra half km. I ended up finishing in 3:40 officially but would have beat this previous best time by about 2 1/2 minutes had I not done the extra bit. Oh well....no biggy for me. I felt bad for those racers who just narrowly missed their Boston Qualifying time because of this mistake!

Anyway Laura thanks for all the encouraging emails and Tiffany as well. I look forward to another clinic with NSA.

Best of luck to all those doing NY and Seattle!

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