All competitors are invited to our pasta dinner on Saturday, May 5th, 6:00 PM at the Toronto Hilton located at 145 Richmond Street West. Cost is $35.00/person. 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 Kathrine Switzer, Roger Robinson, and John Stanton for an informative seminar and question and answer forum. This event is considered one of the best Pasta Dinners of any marathon and sells out fast. Please reserve early for this all you can eat pasta feast. Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson will be available for book signing following dinner.
Brunello Pasta Dinner Featured Speakers
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. 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 GoodLife Fitness 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 GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon office at info@torontomarathon.com. 26.2: Marathon Stories will also be available for purchase at the GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon Expo and Pasta Dinner. Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson will be available for book signing during the expo and at the carbo dinner.
