'Great energy': Rain can't slow runners at Blue Nose Marathon

Molly MacNaughton · CBC News

· Posted: May 18, 2025 3:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

It was a bedewed and cloudy time for thousands of runners taking portion successful the 22nd yearly Blue Nose Marathon successful Halifax.

Halifax's Maksym Pokotylets crossed the decorativeness enactment with a splash, taking location archetypal spot successful 2 hours, 33 minutes and 9 seconds.

Toronto's Tamara Kwast placed archetypal successful her division, and was the archetypal pistillate to transverse the decorativeness line, successful 2:53:54.

For runner Alexandra Quimby, holding her baby, Wally, successful her arms was the champion portion astir finishing the race.

"It's truly fun," Quimby said. "It seems similar there's large vigor contempt the weather."

Quimby, primitively from Ontario, moved to Nova Scotia past July. This was her archetypal Blue Nose Marathon.

She said she and her person woke up astatine 5 a.m., ate a bagel and drank immoderate java to unbend earlier the race. Quimby placed 2nd successful her part and 14th overall, finishing in just nether 3 hours.

Dozens of fundraising organizations besides took portion successful the race. More than $250,000 dollars was raised.

Bide Awhile, a Dartmouth carnal shelter, raised implicit $12,000.

Sam Cole, the organization's communications and selling co-ordinator, ran the 5K yesterday and the 10K this morning.

"I emotion running, but I emotion raising the wealth for the animals adjacent more," said Cole.

Cole said the tally was a small trickier with the rain. 

"Shoes are decidedly soaked, got a fewer blisters from the water, and the span was a conflict with the upwind and the rain, but astatine the extremity of the day, it's amusive to instrumentality portion and the vigor present makes up for it."