HAMILTON MARATHON ROAD2HOPE — NEWS AND UPDATES
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
EARLY BIRD PRICING UNTIL MARCH 31, 2012
THANK-YOU
TO ALL OUR SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS
What would the Hamilton Marathon be with out our volunteers and sponsors? Truly it would only be a
vision with no legs! However thanks to our many sponsors, and countless volunteers we are able to put
legs on this vision! The Hamilton Marathon has become a venue for countless charities to host a fun and
fabulous week-end of fun runs and extreme challenges. Families come to participate in the 1k, 5k, and
10k, and teens as young as 13 come to run a full marathon, some even take on the challenge of
dribbling a basketball through the full marathon course as 17 year old Colin Hayens did this past
Sunday. Did he do it for his own name sake, no he did it for his sisters and brothers that have been
adopted from Haiti.
So hats off to all the countless number of volunteers that have made this past week-end a
success, for the sponsors who stand behind us each year, for the support of the local community
and the reality of giving this vision legs, legs to run a race for ourselves and for
Citykidz & Joy & Hope of Haiti! Thank-you!
FIND YOUR PHOTOS!
Finding your photos online has never been easier. Once you land on the race gallery site (links to races
below), you just enter your bib number and search. All your tagged images will appear. If your bib
wasn’t showing, you can browse the unknown runner and candid gallery and tag your own shots!
Your video finish will be linked soon too.
Saturday 1/5/10K races photo gallery: http://photos.mysportsshooter.com/event/15724/
Sunday Half and full marathon gallery: http://photos.mysportsshooter.com/event/15725/
PLEASE NOTE: Any runners that were held up by a train will have their time adjustments complete
by the end of this week. Thanks for your patience, please refrain from contacting chiptime results.
Thanks again for your participation and patience!"
10K finishers Medals can be picked up at Runners Den in Westdale, 860 King St W. Hamilton On
NEWS— Runner's World Magazine will feature our race!
Runner's World magazine will feature our race in their January 2012 issue, as one of North America's
fastest Boston qualifiers. Hoping everyone sets a new PB in 2012.
NEW— Find us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/hamiltonmarathon
Follow us on Facebook. Our new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/hamiltonmarathon will
be where we can
share the joy of running, the joy of running in beautiful Hamilton and especially the Hamilton Marathon Road2Hope. Please join us there and share your thoughts about our race with a community of runners.
" A 911 CALL MADE FOR CITYKIDZ AND HAITI KIDS....."
And all three chiefs responded!!!
Chief Brent Browett will be participating in the 5K run during the Road2Hope marathon, a fund raiser
for both City Kidz and the Joy and Hope of Haiti. Running with the chiefs will be Monica Raudles,
a City Kidz kid who is now a jr. leader at City Kidz, volunteering her time back to the children of
her community and Matt and Maria Hayes are both in the midst of training for the 1/2 marathon,
be sure to come out on Sunday November 6th and cheer them on!! Colin Heyens, a 17 year
old whose sister was adopted from Haiti 4 years ago will be dribbling a basketball,
30,000-38,000 dribbles, the entire full marathon. Colin's sister along with 8-10 City Kidz' jr. leaders
will be participating in the 1K kids race. It's going to be a fun weekend, a great fundraiser---
make a pledge, sign up and run, come out and support the runners, this is for our kids, our community!!!
COURSES RE-CERTIFIED! (From waterfront trail right into finish shoot this year!)
Both the Half and Full Marathon courses will be re-certified this year making the Half Marathon a
qualifying course for the NYC Marathon. The finish at Confederation Park will not do the loop around
the waterpark, and will provide a nice clean finish that will turn from the Waterfront Trail and onto
the finishing chute.
WE RAISED $110,000 FOR OUR CHARITIES IN 2011!
THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS WHO CAME OUT TO SUPPORT THE 2011 ROAD2HOPE
HAMILTON MARATHON, IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL WEEK-END AND THE ROAD2HOPE, CITY KIDZ AND
JOY AND HOPE OF HAITI TIPS THEIR HATS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND ALL WHO VOLUNTEERED!
Thanks to your support we raised $110,000 for our charities.
2011 FINAL RESULTS ARE POSTED
Our results page has been updated, check them out and let's look for a new PB in 2012. The results for all events are now posted on our Race Results page.
2010 PHOTOS
Photos for the 2010 races are posted at Carol Hathaway Art Photography's web site here.
HAMILTON TOURISM AWARDS FOR OUR RACE DIRECTORS!
The race directors Gord & Esther Pauls were awarded the "Sports Ambassadors of the Year"
for 2010. Congratulations!
FOR FULL RESULTS ON ALL EVENTS GO TO RESULTS PAGE
FOR YOUR INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS GO TO PHOTOS PAGE 2010
2ND ANNUAL ROAD2HOPE IN HAITI:
Thanks to your generous support of this event, Gord & Esther Pauls along with Nick Capra
(Owner of Running Free) and their support team put on a 10k Road2Hope race in Haiti. Amazing!