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Tony Lyons swims for the orphans. He’s making a charity swim of 42.2 km today!
“Tony Lyons will be doing a marathon Swim (42.2 km or 26.2 miles) 1688 lengths of a 25 meter pool at Canada Games Pool, 65 East Sixth Avenue, New Westminster, B.C. (www.nwpr.bc.ca) on March 27th 2009. To raise funds for the CKNW Orphan’s fund (www.cknw.com/orphans)”
LotStreetWiz is live-blogging it at marathonswimlive.
Coach Kelvin watches the swimmers
Swim workout in 25-metre pool with Lizbot and LotStreetWiz, overseen by Coach Kelvin, about 65 minutes.
Total: 800 metres or 880 yards.
The new sport of parcour, which is basically to make the city your playground and jungle gym, looks very cool, but I’m sure it needs a lot of practice, as QT found out.
The results and pictures of yesterday’s marathon and half-marathon are up.
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2008
The start!, originally uploaded by Longboat Daily Express Editor.
Every year, the Longboat Road Runners running club puts on a foot race on Toronto Island. It’s a fast, very flat course. But first, you have to take a ferry to the island. This year’s race was held last weekend on September 21. The pictures are up on Flickr.
Last weekend, Barbara Warren, one of the best triathletes in her age group, was in a bike crash at the Santa Barbara, California, triathlon around mile 34. As a result, she was paralyzed from the neck down and breathing with a ventilator. She communicated to her family that she wanted the ventilator turned off. After questioning her many times, her family complied. She died Tuesday night.
Barbara Warren raced at the Ford Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii 13 times. She won her age group in 2003 and finished in the top five eight times.
Her athletic realm stretched far beyond the Big Island and triathlon’s most famous race. In 2001, Warren and Drake set a two-person age-group record in the Race Across America. Alternating riding bikes, the twins covered 2,983 miles in nine days, 13 hours.
Warren competed in the Marathon des Sables, a seven-day race across the Sahara Desert, and raced a triple Ironman in France, requiring 50 hours to finish a 7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike and 78.6-mile run.
You can read about her here:
I stayed up last night and watched the finishers come in for about two hours. This event was not televised, but video & audio and liveblogging commentary could be had via the Ironman web site. I heard it announced when the man with a transplanted heart came in. Some people were accompanied for the last little bit by family members.
Ironman finisher
This is surely a pair of grandchildren, possibly with the oldest man in the race.
I caught a few glimpses of LotStreetWiz assisting the finishers off the course.
Other volunteers rushed across behind each runner to re-string the finishing-line ribbon. Some of the volunteers were children.
Runner and volunteer
Canada’s Ironman triathlon is running in Penticton, B.C. today. I’m watching the streaming video & audio (announcements and their choice of music on the speakers at the start/finish lines! Check it out at Ironman.com. Just keep following the links to live video. The results/transcription window pops up automatically.
The competitors are divided into professionals (pros) and amateurs (age-groupers). The pros compete for the overall win. The age-groupers have separate prizes for each age group (about a decade).
Ironman criteria:
The youngest competitor a woman of 18 and the oldest a 78-year-old nun. The oldest man is 77. I saw one man with a full grey beard, no one with large breasts.
I won’t be able to keep it on all day as I’m driving to Peterborough and back.
Andie ran her first tri last week. Here’s a picture of her during the run:
