The Chilly Half Marathon in Burlington, Ont., marks the beginning of the spring highway race season in Jap Canada, and one masters runner from London, Ont., Brian Murphy, kicked off his 2024 season with a brand new Canadian half-marathon report within the males’s 60-64 age class.
Murphy, 62, completed the race in a powerful one hour, 17 minutes and 52 seconds, breaking his personal earlier mark from 2022 by 45 seconds. He additionally gained the M60-64 age class by a staggering 10 minutes, and would have additionally gained the M55-59 division on the Chilly Half Marathon.
“I’m extremely grateful to Backroads and StayAbove Diet for his or her help right this moment in attaining a brand new Canadian M60-64 report within the Chilly Half Marathon,” Murphy wrote on Instagram. “Extra good issues to come back in 2024.”
This isn’t Murphy’s first Canadian masters report; he holds 5 age-group data within the males’s 60-64 class. He additionally holds the M60+ marathon report of two:44:20, which he set on the 2022 London Marathon, and holds the 30 km report from the Across the Bay Street Race in 2022.
Murphy instructed Canadian Working that it’s arduous to pinpoint one secret to working quick in his sixties. “I’d say it’s plenty of work, sustaining a optimistic angle, and having a superb coach,” says Murphy. “I’ve additionally elevated my protein consumption and located it’s serving to me get sooner and sooner. Plus, being retired permits me to run much more.”
Murphy is at the moment coached by former Canadian Olympian and a pair of:10 marathoner Reid Coolsaet and serves as a marathon coach at Backroads Brews + Footwear, an unbiased working retailer in London.
