American born, Ryan Hall, become the fastest white marathoner in history this morning at the FLORA London Marathon. Ryan ran with the lead pack until 22 miles shattering the American 25km record en route. His finishing time of 2:06:17 (1:02:13 thru the half) was almost 2 minutes faster than his previous best from this race last year. Ryan leads a strong contingent of American distance runners at this years Olympics in Beijing and has his hopes set high on an Olympic medal.

At the Rotterdam marathon this morning, Canadian distance runner, Dylan Wykes, ran his debut marathon in a time of 2:15:16. Dylan was chasing the Canadian 'B' standard (2:14:00) in the marathon and was on pace until 35km. Dylans time is the fastest marathon by a Canadian since 2004. The last chance for a Canadian to qualify for the Olympic Marathon is the Ottawa Marathon in 2 weeks time which is unofficially acting as the Canadian Olympic Trials.

Buster Martin is an unlikely candidate to set a marathon record. He drinks beer, smokes cigarettes and stays out late. And he's 101.  This sunday at the FLORA London Marathon he is attempting to shuffle his way into the record books as the oldest person to complete a marathon.

The trail running season got underway this past sunday with the first of five races in the 8th Frontrunners GutBuster Trail Running Series presented by The North Face. GutBuster 001 held at Royal Roads University is a deceivingly difficult course with many short steep hills and lots of roots and fallen trees which keep the runners focused. 238 runners took to the trails and challenged themselves to either the 6km short course event or 11km long course event. The weather behaved itself and everyone was treated to a fairly dry course....lets hope for more mud next year!