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Toronto Waterfront Marathon Runner Comments
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Course 4.0 
Organization 4.1 
Spectators 3.4
Number of comments: 228 [displaying comments 151 to 161]
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f. t. from toronto
(9/27/2004)
"Great fun" (about: 2004)
2 previous marathons
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 First time for this run. Found the start a bit confusing. More speakers around the crowd and not just the front would help. | |
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J. W. from here
(9/26/2004)
"A pleasure to run" (about: 2004)
First Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 3 I can't wait to start training for the full. | |
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R. C. from Toronto
(9/26/2004)
"Thanks to the Pace Bunny" (about: 2004)
First Marathon
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 I ran the half marathon today. I want to thank the 1:45 pace bunny who turned around before the finish and encouraged me to run faster so that I could complete before 1:45. I did it in 1:43, chip time. Thanks to the Pace Bunny. | |
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Brian Whittaker from Avon, OH
(9/26/2004)
"I now know what a perfect marathon feels like!" (about: 2004)
3 previous marathons
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 This course was wonderful! Three opportunities to cross the lead runners as they sped along. The spit near the end was an opportunity to escape the crowds and enter into a runners only world where inspiration flowed from the other runners like the water surrounding us. A perfect marathon for first timers, Boston hopefuls, and veterans to the sport!! | |
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R. F. from Etobicoke, Ontario
(9/26/2004)
"Exciting race, awesome course." (about: 2004)
2 previous marathons
| 1 Toronto Waterfront Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 3 The STWM was the most exciting and emotional race I have ever done in my life. The runners were great and the spectators offered nothing but encouragement. I just wish there were more spectators. | |
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Gord Bambrick from Barrie ON
(9/26/2004)
"An awesome event! " (about: 2004)
First Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 This was my first marathon, so the course was ideal and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The organization was perfect. The bands were great, the stations and facilities were excellent and the encouragement from everyone along the way was a big help to us first timers. Thank you! | |
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d. b. from toronto
(9/26/2004)
"Staggered starting times are a bad idea" (about: 2004)
1 previous marathon
COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 2 Well organized - don't like staggered starting times. | |
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R. G. from Ajax, ON
(9/26/2004)
"Superb in every way." (about: 2004)
1 previous marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 Ed Whitlock is a true inspiration to runners and non-runners alike. Next year, when I am 42, I hope to run as good as he does. | |
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K. D. from Barrie
(10/16/2003)
"A decent first-time marathon" (about: 2003)
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 3 I liked this course because it is indeed flat - but I found the Spit section to be lonely and isolating, especially at the point where your body needs the most encouragement. If the course is to remain the same, maybe flip it so that runners are going through that section in their first half while they still fresh; that would leave the sections where interesting scenery and cheering spectators are needed the most for the second half. The spectators were few and fairly far between, but the ones that were there did their best to cheer us along. I cannot rave enough about the excellent organization and volunteers on the course. Kit pick-up was well organized and we completed it with no problems, and in a timely manner. Water and Gatorade stations were frequent and well-stocked, and the volunteers at the stations were happy and encouraging. Thank you all so much for donating your time! The police and marshalls on the course were equally worthy of applause. At the end of the course, I had a hard time getting a thermal blanket, and found that the food was not as plentiful as I would have liked. At just over 4 hours, it would have been nice to have something more than an orange, and I am not sure if the 4,000+ half-marathoners were supplied better because they get to the end of the course first? I'm not sure who ordered up the weather, but do you think they can duplicate it next year? All in all, a decent first time experience, and a race I will run again next year. Congratulations to all my fellow runners for their effort! | |
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Choly Abalos Devera from Kingsville, Texas
(10/13/2003)
"5K Runner from Kingsville, Texas" (about: 2003)
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 First of all, I would like to extend my thanks to everyone for the opportunity to be able to participate in the Toronto Waterfront Marathon/Scotiabank 5km Run. I live in Kingsville, Texas and this was my very first time to run in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so I did not know what to expect running in a very cold weather of Toronto as compared to the hot and humid weather of South Texas. However, it turned out to be a perfect day that day to run. I felt great after the run, with my time of 0:26.43.4 and, more so, when the final results came out that I placed first out of fifteen (15) runners in my age category, 60-64. Thanks for the wonderful weather and great workers, crowd and spectators, as well as, to my loving sister, Lilia Abalos Cuison and her very patient son, Mandy (from Markham, Ontario), for their support and encourgement by giving me a ride to the race and by taking my pictures during and after the run. I am looking forward to next year's event. Keep up the good work y'all! |
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