Race Weekend

It's definitely race season in Ottawa. The triathlon & duathlon series has started already, with mine coming up on Saturday. The weekend after that is National Capital Race weekend. It's a huge event in Ottawa. A lot of downtown is closed off and runners from all over the world come for the events. Everything from half and full marathons, to 5k and 10k, and 2k family walks. They also have in-line skate events, and walking for the marathon and half marathon distances if you can believe it. Like I said, huge events taking place over the weekend.

Two years ago now, mom and dad were here for race weekend. We had such a wonderful time. Dad and I did the ran the 5k race and then me, mom and Dad did the 2k family event together. Such a great time. I'm not running the event this year but I have many friends who are doing the 10k, 1/2 marathon and full marathon. I live right off the canal and will be walking over with my coffee to see my friends run out and I'll be there again to cheer them on their way back to the finish line. I love seeing the variety of people who run in this event. People you'd never think were runners are completing 21 and 42 kilometre distances. Can you imagine? It's inspiring and the Bruheim in me gets awfully emotional!

Here's a clip from the Sports Stats website where any race you run in Ottawa is timed by this one company. You can punch your name in and see your entire history of times.