Marathon Dynamics News - Archived
- What a season!
With the coming and going of events earlier this month in Hamilton, Markham and of course big, bad, beautiful NYC—that’s a
wrap...phew!
From the almost 200 of you we worked ran, and played with these past five months, there were so many inspiring performances, it sure wasn’t easy to distil it down to a “Top 10”...but we’ll take a stab at it anyway (in no particular order or rank, other than alphabetical):
• June Barrett – 3:59 at Toronto Marathon...a Boston Qualifier in her first year of marathoning!
• Kristin Dalzell – 1:43 at Toronto Half Marathon...5+min PB in first season with MDI
• Ana & Dave Dennier – New MD runners, big shiny new marathon PBs at the Hamilton Marathon. Ana ran a 3:10 (2 min PB) and Dave ran a 3:18 (15 min PB). One happy (and fast) couple!
• Stephanie Griffiths – 3:05 PB at Waterfront Marathon (2nd in age cat), as the 2nd of 3 marathons in less than 2 months (averaging under 3:10 for all 3!)...mind-boggling!
• Linnea Humphrey – Ran 3:29 marathon SPLIT to close out a mindboggling 9hr58min Ironman PB in the Florida IM. 2nd in her age category, top 10 overall women (at age 44)...You go girl!
• Lindsay Lalonde – it’s not often (OK, never!) that a runner we coach goes out and smashes our race day plan/prediction by 7 minutes, but that’s just what she did, debuting in 1:46 at the Toronto Half. What will she do for an encore?
• Janine Moffett – 3:03 PB at Hamilton Marathon...3rd OVERALL woman. Wow!
• Peter Speight – It took 3 tries (two within 1 month), but after having his first 2 marathons this year sabotaged by heat and gastric distress, he nailed it at Hamilton—3:08! A huge PB & Boston Q
• Neil Stephenson – in June, he approached us never really having been a runner, and not even doing much exercise in general for years, and stated “I must run a marathon this fall”. After several attempts at remonstrating with him to change his goal to a 5K, 10K, or at most a Half, I realized “as crazy as it is, he’s going to try this no matter what”. So, after establishing some ground rules on how we’d proceed, I agreed to train him for the attempt. Long story short...HE DID IT! Completing the Toronto Marathon in just over 5hrs. Click here to read more of his incredible journey.
• Andrew Smereczynsky – 3:25 at Waterfront Marathon. With a previous marathon PB of 3:33, he came to us for help with making it to Boston. After a season of textbook training, and beautiful race day execution, not only had he done that, but set an 8 minute PB in the process. Well done!
• Glen Way – 3:04 PB at Hamilton Marathon. What a race...what a year! Over the past 10 months, Glen also ran PB’s at 5K, 10K, 15K, Half Marathon and 30km, ran the Boston Marathon, and did an 800km bike tour. To boot, he did all this in first time “dadhood”, since his son’s birth in February!
Congratulations to every Marathon Dynamics runner in 2010...let's dream even bigger for 2011!
New Season Officially Starts Up December 1st--Let's Go!
If you’re new to Marathon Dynamics we feel that on every front—from our staff, to our systems, to our services—we can provide the best training plans & personal running coaching, and deliver the best results, for the best price.
Here is the Winter/Spring 2011 Marathon Dynamics Group Intensity Workouts line-up (all sessions are @ 6:30-8pm (unless otherwise noted), December '10 through May '11):
1. MONDAYS - MIDTOWN TORONTO: Absolute Endurance...starts Dec. 13th
2. TUESDAYS - NORTH TORONTO: York Univ. INDOOR Track...starts Dec. 7th
3. WEDNESDAYS - WEST TORONTO: High Park...starts Dec. 8th
4. THURSDAYS - OAKVILLE: Physical Edge Physio...starts Dec. 9th
* Please note: A maximum of 30 runners will be allowed to register at each location...so don't miss your spot. Register now!
* If you’d like to “tawk shawp” about your 2011 running goals, the best time to reach Coach Kev for a free consultation is between Nov 22-Dec 6 (10am-4pm). After that, things get a little time-pressured, so call sooner than later!
2010 Mississauga Marathon Weekend a huge success!
MDI runners Benoit Keppenne (L) and Bill Borzi (R), take a break from assisting coach Kevin Smith (C) at the crazy busy Marathon Dynamics booth!
Despite skies that were too sunny, and temperatures that were increasingly too hot to run one's best, our Marathon Dynamics runners did terrifically well in their races this weekend. We'll have a more specific rundown in our forthcoming spring/summer e-newsletter out later this week, so watch for that.
And thanks VERY much to the more than 20 MDI runners who so generously gave of their time, energy and enthusiasm to help support our pace band project at the expo. We distributed almost 1500 free customized, topographically-adjusted pace bands to Missy runners!
Congrats 2010 Marathon Dynamics Boston Marathoners!
From among the 4 dozen or so we had running this year, here are "The Top 26" performances (listed alphabetically):
Please note: these are not necessarily the fastest performances, but those who most impressed given their training & race day circumstances for this year's Boston (listed alphabetically)
Hassan Afshar - 3:29
Mary-Ann Baraniuk - 4:31
Kathy Beckwith - 3:54
Fred Bianchi - 3:23
Lindsay Brooks - 3:46
Geron Cowherd - 3:12
Harvey Foote - 3:13
Ann Gunther - 4:37
Gerry Ker - 3:54
Cathy Kwan - 3:53
Nancy Lennon - 3:49
Jody Levine - 3:46
Karin Lindner - 3:54
Barbara McMurray - 4:10
Lisa Mina - 3:47
Josie Mori-Stoodley 3:16
Martha Palao - 4:02
Paula Rochman - 4:07
Stephen Rockett - 3:38
Kirsten Schwass - 3:34
Darrell Smith - 3:52
Judy Snider - 3:46
Katie Thomas 4:06
David Van Klaveren - 3:43
Glen Way - 3:10
Andy Wilkes - 3:45
Julia Wilkes - 3:45
Congrats 2010 Marathon Dynamics Around The Bay 30K Runners!
Here are the top 30 performances of the weekend (listed alphabetically):
Please note: many of these runners were doing "Boston Marathon Racepace" workouts, rather than all out racing ATB, and others were doing it as an "overdistance" hard long run in training for spring half marathons.
| Mary-Ann | Baraniuk | 3:09 |
| Paul | Baraniuk | 2:34 |
| June | Barrette | 2:55 |
| Bill | Borzi | 2:03 |
| Lindsay | Brooks | 2:45 |
| Surat | Chahal | 2:33 |
| Lynda | Chubak | 2:45 |
| Harvey | Foote | 2:15 |
| Nick | Friedman | 2:38 |
| Les | Garrell | 2:41 |
| David | Gauthier | 2:25 |
| Len | Griffiths | 2:08 |
| Yasu | Kajiwara | 2:17 |
| Benoit | Kepenne | 2:14 |
| Paula | Krulicki | 2:23 |
| Nancy | Lennon | 2:36 |
| Jody | Levine | 2:38 |
| Deidre | Lue-Kim | 2:47 |
| Margaret | Menzel | 2:27 |
| Lisa | Mina | 2:35 |
| Marc | Rapuch | 2:51 |
| Stephen | Rockett | 2:27 |
| Bal | Sekhon | 2:32 |
| Judy | Snider | 2:40 |
| Peter | Speight | 2:11 |
| David | Van Klaveren | 2:35 |
| Tyler | Warcop | 2:32 |
| Brett | Warren | 2:10 |
| Glen | Way | 2:14 |
| Christopher | Wolfe | 2:32 |
- Super Season End Parties! Almost 100 of you got together with us last week (Nov. 12 & 13, 2009) for two terrific wrap up parties (one in Oakville and one in Toronto) to celebrate one season and usher in the next. By all accounts, much fun was had--especially at the Toronto party we're we sold out every seat in the house at Safari's Bar & Grill. Here's a quick rundown of some of the big award winners:
- Toronto "ROOKIE OF THE YEAR" Recipient: FRED BIANCHI
- Toronto "DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH" (aka most improved) Recipient: DEBORAH COLLIER
- Toronto "NUTCRACKER" (aka hardest working runner) Recipient: DONNA BOWER
- Toronto "CLOSEST TO PERFECTION" (race results best match game plan) Recipient: JACKIE GALLANT
- Oakville "RUNNER OF THE YEAR" Recipient: BRETT WARREN
*see below for more on their incredible accomplishments!
- Quick "Baker's Dozen" MDI Runners of the Year - 2009: From among the hundreds of runners we worked, ran and played with this year, amidst a sea of fast times, excellent placings, personal bests and Boston qualifiers, the Marathon Dynamics coaches had some tough calls to make to pare down this list to the top dozen runners...but alas, we did (oh, OK, top 15...best we could do!).
Please note: these are not necessarily the fastest runners, or even those that placed the highest in race age-categories. They are chosen based upon how well they trained, and on how much they improved and rose the occasion on race day, relative to their season-starting ability, and in light of their race day conditions and/or circumstances (listed alphabetically):
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- Hassan Afshar - 3:20 Chicago Marathon...a 26 min PB (and 1st Boston Q too!)
- Fred Bianchi - 3:16 Hamilton Marathon...a 13 min PB (and 1st Boston Q too!)
- Bill Borzi - 2:54 Hamilton Marathon (3 weeks after 2:57 Chicago)...a 7 min PB this season
- Harvey Foote - 3:19 Ottawa Marathon...a 38 min PB (and 1st Boston Q) & 1:28 PB @ Niagara Half
- Deborah Collier - 4:07 Toronto Marathon...a 50 min PB! (& 1:55 PB @ Mississauga Half too)
- Jackie Gallant - 1:45 Toronto Half (almost 3 min PB)
- Benoit Keppenne - 1:27 Hamilton Half (including mid-race passing train stoppage!)...a 10 min improvement this season
- Nancy Lennon - 3:38 Mississauga Marathon...a 40+min PB (and 1st Boston Q too!)
- Erik Loponen - 3:02 Hamilton Marathon...a 7 min PB
- Jose Medellin - 3:21 Waterfront Marathon...8+ min PB
- Josie Mori-Stoodley - 3:13 Boston Marathon (9th place in category!)
- Judy Snider - 43 min Angus Glen 10K (1st in age category, 4th overall)
- Katie Thomas - 4:03 Mississauga Marathon...1 15+ min PB (and 1st Boston Q)
- Brett Warren -2:58 Chicago Marathon...a 10 min PB & 1:22 Hamilton Half (5 min PB)
- Glen Way - 3:08 Hamilton Marathon...11 min improvement since last year, 1st Boston Q
- Hon. Mention - Michelle Clark ...37 min 10K, 1:25 Half, but fall season riddled with injury...showed amazing tenacity to stick with it though!