Will you be in Ottawa next week for IRONMAN Canada - Racing or Spectating? Looking for something do do? Also happening next week in Ottawa are the Canadian Track & Field Championships. Canada’s best Track & Field Athletes will all be there - including the great Andre de Grasse - arguably the most consistent best 100/200m sprinters in the world over the last 3 Olympic Games - w/ 7 Olympic Medals to his name!!
Thursday Night is “Distance Night” - The 3000m Steeple Chase and 5000m Finals are on the schedule for Thursday evening. The great Moh Ahmed will be running in the 5000 - Canada’s undisputed greatest middle and long distance runner of all time, running in perhaps his last Canadian Track Championships before potentially moving on to a focus on the marathon.
I like that Moh - despite his schedule, wherever he is, ALWAYS comes back to run the Canadian championships.
I’ll not be Live Announcing. You’ll not hear my voice in the Stadium - although have done that in the past at the Canadian Championships. I’ll be working the Live Commentary for RunnerSpace.
100m Finals for Men and Women are on Friday Night. One of the closest EVER 100m races I ever Announced at was the Men’s 100m Canadian Championship Final a few years ago. The top 6 including Andre De Grasse, all finished within one tenth of a second. The Photo Timer took a minute or two . . , that seemed to stretch on forever to sort out the places!