Marathon advice from the pros
I mentioned in my Niagara Falls Marathon Race Report that I was initially intimidated by getting to speak at the expo, since seeing Kathrine Switzer speak there four years ago. I’m certainly no K. Switzer! However, there was also a world-class athlete speaking this year: Olympian Reid Coolsaet. Reid ran his first marathon in 2009, finishing in 2:17. Since then, he’s run the second-fastest marathon by a Canadian athlete (2:10:55), and through doing so, qualified for the 2012 London Olympics! It is so crazy to think that the elite athletes can run twice as fast – so when I’m laboring …