This Labrador City senior loves marathons - he's finished each of the world majors

Alex Kennedy · CBC News

· Posted: May 04, 2025 2:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago

A Labrador City antheral has joined an elite nine of runners by completing each six of the world's large marathons.

Elliott Rowe precocious completed the Tokyo Marathon, with a clip of 5:38:20. He's already completed the different large marathons successful Boston, Chicago, New York, Berlin and London.

It's a situation helium took connected aboriginal successful life, joining a Labrador West moving nine successful 2010, and completing the Tokyo marathon astatine property 70.

"I started doing my runs starring up to a fractional marathon, and I was doing reasonably good, I indispensable say," Rowe said, arsenic helium recalled his archetypal training.

"I was up for the challenge, truthful that's what I did. Trained for the marathon, and my extremity was fundamentally 4 hours."

Rowe finished his archetypal marathon with a clip of 3:56:52, and aboriginal checked disconnected a bucket database point with the completion of the Boston Marathon successful astir 4 hours and 4 minutes.

"That got me, much oregon less, addicted," helium said.

"It's the feeling you get erstwhile you finish."

Rowe has since completed 15 much marathons.

He said the feeling ne'er gets old.

Tokyo proved a challenge, helium said, fixed hot conditions and a autumn successful January. However, helium pushed through.

"I persevered, and I was truthful blessed erstwhile I finished [at] the decorativeness line. They enactment the six-medal medallion connected you," helium said.

The six medals represent the completion of each major marathon.

Rowe said if different runners person aspirations to implicit a marathon, it's important to easiness your mode into it by gradually gathering up region and grooming implicit time.

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