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Brunello Carbo Dinner
All competitors are invited to our pasta dinner / runners' workshop on Saturday, October 18th, 6 p.m. at the Toronto Hilton located at 145 Richmond Street West. Cost is $25.00 for participants and guests. Please be sure to check box on the entry form. Only a limited number of tickets are available! Please buy your tickets early and avoid the disappointment of missing this all you can eat pasta feast. Join Bart Yasso - from Runners World magazine, Kathrine Switzer, John Stanton, Dr. Chris Woollam, and Dr. Kate Hays for an informative seminar and question and answer forum. This event is considered one of the best Carbo Load Dinners of any marathon and sells out fast. Please reserve early for this all you can eat pasta feast. Katherine Switzer and Roger Robinson will be available for book signing during the pasta dinner / runners' workshop. SpongeBob SquarePants™
SpongeBob SquarePants™ is a proud participant of the 2008 Toronto Marathon! Meet SpongeBob at the Expo, Carbo Dinner, and the Start and Finish Lines. Brunello Carbo Dinner Featured Speakers
BART YASSO Join us as Bart shares his wealth of knowledge, some great stories and photo's. Bart is the Promotion Director at Runner's World Magazine and brings his knowledge, wisdom and humour to his slide show presentation which will inform, inspire and entertain us all. Completing over 1,000 running and multisport events over the past 25 years including over 150 marathons including New York City, Boston, Antarctica, Kilimanjaro and the Badwater 146 miler through Death Valley, 5 ironmans, to winning the 1987 U.S. national biathlon long course championship, he has done it all.
KATHRINE SWITZER has been an authority on running and women’s sports for over thirty years. She is best known for pioneering the official entrance of women into the marathon, beginning in the late 1960s. Through the Avon Running program, she organized events for over one million women in twenty-seven countries, which was vital to securing the women’s marathon event in the Olympics. She has finished thirty-five marathons, won the 1974 New York City Marathon and still runs six miles a day. An Emmy Award winning TV commentator, Switzer has covered many major running events including the Olympics, the Goodwill and Commonwealth Games and almost all televised editions of the Boston, New York and Los Angeles Marathons, as well as hundreds of local races around the world. The author of Running and Walking for Women Over 40, she will publish an autobiography in 2007. Kathrine Switzer has been married to co-author Roger Robinson for eighteen years. JOHN STANTON A best selling Canadian author of four books on running and founder of the Running Room, John Stanton was named to Maclean's Magazine's 2004 Canada Day Honour Roll as one of ten Canadians making a difference in our nation for his contribution to health through fitness. John Stanton has run more than 60 marathons, hundreds of road races, and numerous triathlons, including the Canadian Ironman and the Hawaiian World Championship Ironman competition. His pre-dawn runs would ultimately become John Stanton's 10:1 Training Concept, which would go on to help thousands of people lose weight, improve their health and fitness levels and truly changed their lives. DR. CHRIS WOOLLAM brings a vast experience in running injuries to the table. As a sport physician since 1990, he has been personally active in running, triathlon and several sports. He has been Medical Director to the Toronto Marathon since its inception. As such he has seen and treated thousands of runners for the various injuries endemic to running. For further information about Dr. Woollam, click here. DR. KATE HAYS practices sport psychology and clinical psychology in Toronto, through her own consulting program; The Performing Edge, as a Sport Psychologist with Athlete's Care and with Toronto SEMI. As an avid runner for the past 22 years, Dr. Hays is excited to share the wealth of constructive information on mental skills training and sport psychology with runners at the Toronto Marathon. For more information about Dr Kate Hays and the Psyching Team click here. ROGER ROBINSON, after a thirty year career as a worldranked runner, is one of the leading authors, speakers and historians on running. He represented England and New Zealand in world championships and had record-breaking age-group victories in the Boston, New York, Vancouver and other marathons. Senior writer for Running Times, his articles have been published throughout the English-speaking world. He is also known as a TV commentator, stadium announcer at events such as the Commonwealth Games, and as a speaker on the history and significance of running. A distinguished university scholar and teacher, he is emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Robinson is the author of Heroes and Sparrows and Running in Literature, as well as the recent Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature and Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings. Limited Toronto Marathon edition of 26.2: Marathon Stories is available for purchase online during the registration process. To purchase a book without registering in the event, please contact the Toronto Marathon office at torontomarathon@rogers.com.
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