It’s another world record for Ed Whitlock of Milton, Ontario.
This past weekend, the 85-year-old set another world record as he finished a marathon in under four hours.
The champion runner completed Toronto’s Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon in just three hours, 56 minutes, and 33.2 seconds setting the world record for his age group.
A dozen years ago when he was a spry 73-year-old, he set the world marathon record for that age group as he finished in 2 hours, 54 minutes, a record that still stands.
After the race, Whitlock said he felt fine and was walking around no problem, but on Monday he revealed that the next day he was hurting saying, “my legs are shot today”. However, he says he’ll keep running as long as he can.
Almost 5,000 people representing 60 countries, signed up for the full marathon in Toronto.
Another star of the Toronto marathon was Robert MacDonald. He finished in five hours 59 minutes. Far off any record, but the difference is that just four years ago doctors gave him a mere five percent chance of ever walking again. MacDonald had fallen off a three story balcony in Mexico and lost motor function below his waist.
MacDonald said it was very special to run along with a friend who had told him shortly after the accident that some day they would run a marathon together.
He ran as part of a group called “I will” which is raising money for the Toronto Rehab Foundation.
And on the other side of Canada, Surrey British Columbia’s Elizabeth Model has become the only woman to have completed every Ironman race in the world.
Model, the 57-year-old CEO of the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association, completed the race in Cambridge Maryland last week in the storm that lashed the east coast in a time of 12 hours 18 minutes, 31 seconds. The storm meant the swimming portion was cancelled, but at time the runners were wading through water up to their knees and against high winds and lashing rain.
The goal came after her running almost came to an end after a serious skiing injury that shattered her tibia and fibula last December. The fractures involved complicated surgery and a long rehabilitation.
Model, 57, has now completed 75 triathlons and 99 marathons. She joins the extremely limited group of Luis Alvarez, Jeff Jonas and John Wragg as the only people on the planet to have completed every race on the Ironman circuit.
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