Toronto Corporate Run / Walk 5km

With Canadian Running Magazine – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

It’s been great to catch up with our many teams and winners of the hardware in both Corporate Four person Team Awards and Mega Teams who keep the large briefcase trophy for a full year.

Here we have the newest small but mighty Shopify Canada team who won the Mixed Team Award in their first try. Always innovative and one step ahead of others a missing teammate was still included virtually!

Back to Back trophy wins! Bell Canada successfully defended their fast first place male team trophy (pictured here 2/3 members plus a fill in from accounting)!

Male teams can have 3 “men” and one woman. FYI

Proving the decades long debate about who has faster high speed internet?

100 Canadian women to chase incredible Guinness World Record in Hamilton - Canadian Running Magazine A group of Canada's top female distance runners will be working together to reclaim the 100 x 1-mile relay Guinness World Record on July 7

Congrats to the resilience and dedication of the Indigo Books and Music warehouse staff who annually support the Toronto Corporate Run/Walk event by making the long trek from Bramalea to Hotel X by the water. That effort alone in these trying Toronto traffic times are worth their own trophy (!) Team Captain Dustin Holt is pictured here with some of their 40+ team who make the annual trip down the 427.

Once again for the 3rd time Indigo wins the Largest Team Trophy award, from previous winners Pepsi, Desjardins, and IESO in 2023. The staff here now get to keep this trophy for 350 days until June, 2025.

We are inspired to grow our event from more companies who can combine their front and back office teams for after work fun, fitness and fundraising.

Two weeks away (yesterday). Remember to tell your office staff and coworkers you can attend on a “party only” ticket or volunteer.

No excuses to support your colleagues in person, after work, and outside getting fresh air.

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Wisdom Wednesday thanks to the Toronto Corporate Run / Walk team. You can stay flexible and limber at work, or if remotely working from home.

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Wacky Wednesday brings us this fun meme. Post a comment and WIN free movie tickets to the future showing of Return to Fardella ( working title).

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Excited to add another amazing charity to the growing Charity Challenge.

Childhood Cancer Canada:

https://raceroster.com/.../fundraising-organization/54111

If your team is looking for a great organization to partner with at our 5k here is one!

Thursday thoughts! Go out and be young(er) again even if just for 30 minutes

For sure!

On June 12th you can exact some revenge at our 5k. Or step up from walking last year to running this year.

New Year. New You. But it’s early so check back in spring! Save the date.

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We love it when we see our Corporate Run trophies out in the marketplace! Congrats for winning the Corporate Female Trophy displayed here.

We are excited to return our many sponsors and partners to 2024. The last one in this past June is one of our first back for June 12th.

Niagara Cycling Tours provide both multi day guided and self guided tours across the entire region of niagara (canada) they also offer two wheeled team building for corporate groups looking for an active break from meetings . And new tours for student groups were recently added.

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“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.”
Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in.
She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.”
It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt.
As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried.😥
By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.😀👍
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Bell Canada officially recognized as we present the 2023 plaque for their recent Best Team Spirit Award trophy. Congrats and enjoy the trophy at your Wynford office until next June.

Fun Friday (a day ahead)!

We're getting ready to take more final pictures of our winning teams showing off their 2023 Mega Team Trophies, but lets take a look back at some former champions.

Thomson Reuters

Desjardins

Jumbleberry

UHC Global

Canadian Tire

Stay tuned for our newest winning teams, in the Largest, Best Team Spirit Award and Top Fundraising categories.

How to run a sub-20 5K Sub-20 requires dedication and the ability to endure discomfort. Here's how to break the elusive barrier

Way back Wednesday.
11 years ago. The Honda Indy changed its name and so did we!

Big shout out to Bell Canada for (finally) bringing a team to our event after Rogers teams kept asking year after year (“we want to beat Bell). So they came and kicked ___as winning the coveted Fastest Team Award (mens corporate division) and grabbing the Best Team Spirit Award as well!

Bell Let’s Talk next year!!

Fun facts Friday and flashback to the 1980’s! See here Frank Bucci from S and C Electric company. Frank actually retired but still registered and he won his age group yet again in 26:35 at the age of 71!

Frank has attended every run since 42 years ago when this event was organized by the ymca.