Jim Finlayson bags title at the Whistle Half Marathon – Athletics news
It is said that success has its own intoxication and the phrase is quite right for athletics as well. Recently, when Jim Finlayson bagged the Whistle Half Marathon, his smile was depicting the fact that how happy the formidable athlete was over his invaluable
win.
After bagging his first title of the event and before encountering media personnel, Finlayson headed towards a resting tent fixed in the Olympic Plaza and caught his breath. Interestingly, after running a tiresome distance of about 21.1km, Finlayson was
looking quite fresh. For bagging the title, the Victoria dweller covered the desired distance in 1 hour, nine minutes and 25 seconds.
This was indeed a world-class performance, talking about which, he said, “I tried to run fairly comfortable right up until we go to Blueberry Hill and then went up the hill to see what the energy feels like for the day.” The second position on the podium
was claimed by Vancouver dweller, Edward McCarthy, who covered the desired distance in one hour, twelve minutes and fifty-two seconds. In order to be placed third, Colin Wallace from Burnaby crossed the finishing line in one hour, thirteen minutes and one
second.
Among the female runners, it was Care Wakley, the girl from Victoria who crossed the finishing line first and clocked one hour, twenty one minutes and four seconds. Talking about the toiling efforts she had to make before emerging as the winner of the event,
the girl said, “The course was hillier than I expected but it was good. I died in the last two kilometers; I knew about the hill in the beginning but there was a couple undulating ones and the trails that really got me.”
Wakely, the title holder of this year’s event was followed by Kristina Rody, the former Whistler resident who crossed the finishing line in one hour, twenty two minutes and fifty three seconds. Vancouver’s Amy Schneeberg was placed third for covering the
required distance in one hour, twenty three minutes and thirty seconds.
Among the local finishers, it was Ashley McMillan who ended her contest in one hour, eighteen minutes and twenty seven seconds, to be placed as the sixth finisher of the race. For clocking one hour, twenty three minutes and six seconds, Christian Faruga
Karlden, another local athlete secured his position among the top-ten male athletes.
The third whistler to cross the finishing line was Chris Kennedy, who, for clocking one hour, twenty three minutes and thirty eight seconds, appeared as the 12th position finisher of the event.
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