Marathon du Medoc
Ahhhhh…. Easily the most stress-free, easy going marathon in the world. Wine aid stations, a median finishing time of over 6 hours - and it all goes down in the south of France. Here are the results:
This race (point-to-point from Kits beach to Ambleside park via the Lions’ Gate Bridge) is officially billed as the most scenic race within BC’s Lower Mainland. It’s also unofficially billed as the race where it never rains. Well, guess what? It rained hard and the “scenic” part was mostly obscured by fog, but we had fun anyway.
Dan tackled the first 27k of this notoriously difficult (hilly!) ultra in Manning Park.
Doug ran the “Ultra” Half Marathon option (closer to 25k than 21.1) on this last episode of the great Five Peaks trail series.
One of the big ones. Part of the Marathon ‘Grand Slam’, and where the current world record was set. 6 of our members ran this one: