When you tuned in to look at Sunday’s Ottawa Worldwide Marathon, you will have seen a well-known Canadian political determine on the midway mark. Prime Minister Mark Carney was noticed cheering on runners and waving to the printed digicam close to Rideau Corridor.
Carney, an avid runner and marathon fan, was noticed giving an off-the-cuff greeting to eventual males’s winner Albert Korir, high Canadian (and runner-up) Rory Linkletter, and the opposite male elites working previous. It was a second that even made former Blue Jays broadcaster Arash Madani joke on the livestream: “Solely in Canada.”
The twenty fourth Prime Minister of Canada isn’t only a sideline supporter—he’s laced up lots himself. Carney ran the half-marathon at Ottawa Race Weekend in 1:40:01 again in 2013, then completed the 2015 London Marathon in a really respectable 3:31:35, making him the one Canadian PM to run an Abbott World Marathon Main.
The Ottawa Marathon is uniquely Canadian—not only for its scenic course, however for its route previous nationwide landmarks like Parliament Hill, Metropolis Corridor, and Rideau Canal, with a loop by Rideau Corridor, previous the residence of the Governor Basic. With a course like that, you by no means know who’ll be on the market cheering—seems this 12 months, it was the Canadian prime minister.
Additionally out on the course: Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe, working his second consecutive Ottawa Marathon. Sutcliffe ran 3:55:56 final 12 months and is one in every of greater than 36,000 members on this 12 months’s Ottawa Race Weekend throughout the 5 distances (2K, 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon).
The place else however Canada are you able to run a race previous parliament—and get a wave out of your PM on the way in which?
