Durham Region Real Estate Blog

I am a real estate salesperson.  Prone to staying up late and sleeping in late. I don’t often see 5:00am, unless I roll over, see the clock and close my eyes again.  So what was I thinking when I agreed to run in a 10km charity run down Yonge Street this morning.  Who was I kidding?  But I signed up for it, so there I was at 5:00, o.k. 5:30, getting ready for the drive in to Toronto for the Sporting Life 10km run for Camp Oochigeas.   Thankfully I was able to convince some fellow gullible souls to run with me, so I wasn’t alone in my misery.

We left Oshawa just after 6am for the trek to the big city.  401 to Yonge Street and then south to the barriers.  (If you are thinking about running next year, remember to park on the west side of Yonge Street.  You are usually able to find a parking space close to the starting line.) Upon arriving, we got out of the cars and headed over to pick up our race packets.  They included a great running t-shirt, running number and timing chip.   Imagine over 12,000 people all there, with their loved ones, all anxiously waiting for the run to start.

And what a start it is.  My troop made it up to the start line to watch the official start.  Here are the runners who will finish the race in under half an hour!  We watched some of the sea of people run by, then made our way back to the corral we were running from – the over 1 hour corral.  By the time we actually crossed the start line, the race had been underway for more than 8 minutes and there were still about 1000 people waiting to cross the line!  The race is fun.  There are 7 bands playing along the route and people cheering you on the whole way and when you get close to the finish line, hundreds of people are cheering you on.  Of course, maybe they were just cheering me on because I looked like death warmed over!  But I made it.  In 1:05:34.0 thank you very much, and I have the medal to prove it.  I didn’t break any land speed records, but did better than I thought I would, and I’m happy with that.  You can check our my time (if you don’t mind reading through the thousands of names who finished faster than I did) at http://www.canadarunningseries.com/results/2009/sl10k/sl10k.htm

It was so much fun, I think I’ll do it again next year, but maybe I’ll train a little more.  If you’d like to join me, let me know and I’ll send you a reminder in January, 2010, so you can sign up. Just remember that if you need a real estate salesperson today, or on May 2, 2010, I am not available until after my recovery! (Which just might take 24hrs!)

Tags: 10km race, Camp Oochigeas, cancer camp, real estate