8/100 - Mathieu

School is out for our boys and they both came home to spend some time with us before their summer commitments started. We all went out for dinner together and following that, we went downtown to take a few photos of them while we had them together.

We ended up in Major's Hill Park in Ottawa and as we walked around, Mathieu was running the loop doing intervals in the park in preparation for Ottawa Race Weekend which is coming up in a couple of weeks. As he wrapped up his running session, he walked by and I struck up a conversation with him. In our family, everyone is a runner now, so we could all relate to the hard work he was doing.

It turns out Mathieu is a marathoner with an impressive personal best of 3 hours and 6 minutes for the 42.2 km distance. He recently completed his studies and is going through the selection process for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He is almost at the end of the process and is looking forward to finally knowing if he can get in or not. It was great of him to chat with us and I am appreciative of the time he spent chatting about running.