Because the seasons transition from summer season to fall, many Canadian runners kicked off their fall racing season at occasions in Canada and the U.S., together with one member of the Canadian Operating employees. Cory Nagler, a member of our advertising and marketing group, secured the victory within the third annual Georgina Marathon with a time of two:39:23.
The 24-year-old from Toronto ran the marathon as a coaching run in preparation for the Amsterdam Marathon in October. Nagler initially served as a pacer for a good friend through the first half of the race after which transitioned right into a exercise routine, alternating between 1K on and 1K off for the second half. “The course was good and scenic, and felt quick,” mentioned Nagler. “I had a sense by 25K I’d break the tape.” Myles Strano of Barrie, Ont., completed second in 2:48:52, and Tristan Markov of Oro-Medonte, Ont., claimed third place with a time of two:49:10.
Nagler’s main goal within the upcoming Amsterdam Marathon is to problem his private greatest of two:30:07, achieved on the 2022 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon final fall.
The ladies’s race
Toronto’s Madeleine Davidson excelled within the ladies’s race, successful in her marathon debut, and putting fifth place general. She recorded a formidable negative-split, finishing the second half in 1:24:41 to complete with a time of two:51:01. Davidson’s coaching accomplice from Toronto’s Monarch Athletic Membership, Lauren King, achieved a private greatest time of two:58:33, securing second place. Alyse Gilliver of Brockville, Ont., rounded out the rostrum with a time of three:04:13.
The third-annual Georgina Marathon and Half Marathon, located on the southern shores of Lake Simcoe, attracted roughly 300 marathoners and round 800 runners collaborating within the half-marathon, 10K, and 5K races. Supreme racing situations greeted individuals on the race’s 7 a.m. begin, with a refreshing breeze blowing in from the lake. Notably, this yr’s race served as a ‘double’ Boston Marathon qualifier, because it fell throughout the qualification home windows for each 2024 and 2025 races.
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A Scottish sweep at New Steadiness fifth Ave. Mile
For the third yr in a row, Scottish athletes took wins in each the lads’s and ladies’s skilled races on the well-known New Steadiness fifth Avenue Mile in New York Metropolis. Josh Kerr, the reigning world 1500m champion, capped off his 2023 season with a dominant win, clocking the quickest time on the occasion in 28 years with a exceptional 3:47.9 mile down fifth Ave.
Within the ladies’s race, one other Scot Jemma Reekie, gained her second NYC Mile in three years, crossing the end line in 4:19.4 in a heavy downpour. Reekie can also be coming off a profitable run the at 2023 world championships in Budapest, the place she positioned fifth in a loaded ladies’s 800m discipline. Reekie final gained this race in 2021 and was fourth in 2022 behind her compatriot Laura Muir.
Kerr celebrated his soaked win by taking off his Brooks Hyperion Elite racing sneakers, displaying off their grip in entrance of the cameras. Two days after setting an space file within the 2,000m at Brussels Diamond League, Quebec’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot made it to the beginning line of the fifth Ave Mile and completed 18th in 4:00 flat.
