Fredericton marathon participation hits record number

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See photos from the 2025 Fredericton marathon.

Number of registered runners surpasses 3,200

CBC News

· Posted: May 11, 2025 2:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Two women wearing shot hats and moving apparel basal smiling connected a roadworthy holding their babe daughter, who wears a purple onesie and grey hat.

Hundreds of runners braved the acold and beardown winds for the Fredericton Marathon connected Sunday.

"We are over-the-moon thrilled," said co-race manager Christine Little. "We've had grounds numbers."

About 2,900 runners registered for the lawsuit successful 2024, added co-race manager Bruce Macfarlane. This year, that fig reached 3,234.

Runners locomotion down the thoroughfare aft passing the decorativeness line.

"This is each astir putting Fredericton connected the map," helium said. "People are getting backmost into wellness and wellness and running."

Male victor Lee Roy, warring a thorax cold, didn't expect to win. More than 350 runners completed the 42.2-kilometre course.

"I'm amazed I adjacent finished," said the Bathurst runner, who crossed the decorativeness enactment with a clip of 2:45:39. "I can't judge it."

A antheral with airy facial scruff poses connected a road. He wears sunglasses, a backwards achromatic shot headdress and diversion clothing.

He added helium plans to observe by going to bed.

Female victor Brianna Kao said simply finishing the contention was a victory, since she didn't decorativeness past year.

A pistillate with brownish hairsbreadth and wearing diversion covering stands smiling connected a street.

"This is my redemption year," she said. "It was a full intelligence artifact past year, and this twelvemonth I truly focused connected believing successful myself."

Kao won with a clip of 2:56:40.

A antheral wearing a shot headdress and a bluish vest overgarment holds a megaphone.

The marathon besides coincided with Mother's Day. For Anna Simonds and her partner, Kayla Blackmore-Simonds, completing the fractional marathon was a cleanable mode to observe their archetypal Mother's Day arsenic a couple.

"It's beauteous peculiar and we surely privation to pb by illustration and amusement [our daughter] however to beryllium blessed and healthy," said Blackmore-Simonds, who gave commencement to the couple's archetypal girl 10 months ago.

A pistillate successful a purple overgarment hands a h2o vessel to a a brown-haired pistillate who is dressed successful diversion clothing.

"Right aft she was calved we were reasoning astir however we could observe each different arsenic moms," added Anna.

Over 300 volunteers helped support the marathon moving smoothly, according to organizers. The marathon's way was besides caller this year, bringing runners into the downtown halfway to easiness congestion connected the city's trails.