Numerous excellent performances accompanied the return of Below Armour Eastside 10K for its eleventh anniversary on Sunday. The occasion, hosted by Canada Operating Collection and happening within the streets of Vancouver’s Gastown and Strathcona, noticed 2,844 finishers and raised greater than $50,000 for native charities. The highest finishers had been Canadian marathon file holder Natasha Wodak and Eastside 10K rookie Andrew Davies of Sarnia, Ont., each claiming victory in dominant style.
The ladies’s race
Wodak demolished the ladies’s discipline, clocking 32:47 to win by nearly a full minute. The 2-time Olympian has been on a roll; she received the Vancouver Half Marathon in June and is within the midst of making ready for the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October. Her time was simply 10 seconds off the course file of 32:37 set by Malindi Elmore in 2022. The strung-out discipline noticed Leslie Sexton of Vancouver end as runner-up in 33:45 and Eliyah Brawdy of North Vancouver in third in 33:56.
The lads’s race
In his Eastside 10K debut, Davies, 23, took the crown from the winners of the previous two years; reigning champion Thomas Broatch of Vancouver and 2022 champion Ben Preisner of Milton, Ont., rounded out the rostrum. On the 5K mark, the lead pack was grouped tightly collectively–no racer was out of rivalry. As anticipated, Davies proved himself as a really vital risk to Canada’s highway racing scene following his collegiate profession, pulling away from the group and the previous champions to determine a commanding lead. He clocked 29:49–the one finisher to interrupt the 30-minute barrier. “I knew by the 8K mark that the race was mine,” he stated. Preisner crossed 16 seconds later, clocking 30:05 and edging out Broatch, whose time was 30:06, by only one second.
Geneviève Lalonde to return to racing at Vancouver’s Eastside 10K
The $50,000 raised might be donated to the 5 native charities that Canada Operating Collection had partnered with: Promise Vancouver, City Native Youth Affiliation, PHS Group Providers Society, KidSport B.C. and Downtown Eastside Girls’s Centre.
