Greater Toronto Area marathon highlights, former NHLers make appearance

Greater Toronto Area hosted a pair of popular marathons on Sunday including the GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon and Mississauga Marathon. Both races came after multiple days of heavy rain with flood warnings in the southern Ontario region.

Tackling a couch-to-10K program, staffers at sports network TSN, specifically OverDrive, a radio talk show, completed the 10K at the Toronto Marathon. They celebrated their accomplishments by immediately cracking a few beers.

“He did it without the cab & toenails intact,” OverDrive 1050 posted to Twitter showing a video of Jeff O’Neill finishing. O’Neill is a former National Hockey League player who now works on the NHL beat for TSN. He rocked a Toronto Blue Jays jersey for the Toronto race.

Bryan Hayes, the host of TSN 1050’s OverDrive, joined in on the running fun and tackled the 10K too, clocking 1:20:52. O’Neill followed in 1:24:25. Jamie McLennan, a former NHL goaltender, took in the action, albeit from the sidelines.

We did it! Couching the 10K and crushing victory beers? @OverDrive1050 @HayesTSN @odognine2 @jamiemclennan29 Good job boys ?? pic.twitter.com/SGGDmrAWi1

— Tomorrow Brew Co. (@TomorrowBrewCo) May 7, 2017

Ol Chip Douglas with a hammy stretch pre race. @HayesTSN pic.twitter.com/DxmxFwieqD

— Jeff O’Neill (@odognine2) May 7, 2017

Drivers please be respectful of all us running the marathon today!

— Jeff O’Neill (@odognine2) May 7, 2017

He did it without the cab & toenails intact @odognine2 @OldTomorrowBeer pic.twitter.com/u1quDILPf5

— OverDrive (@OverDrive1050) May 7, 2017

Good luck to these grinders @HayesTSN @odognine2 @OldTomorrowBeer pic.twitter.com/5KnoJWwROM

— OverDrive (@OverDrive1050) May 7, 2017

Peter Kemboi (2:41:06) and Michelle Spencer (3:00:30) won the Toronto Marathon while out in Mississauga, Lucas McAneney (2:26:09 and Truphena Busienei (3:06:31) won the 42.2K. Toronto results can be found here; Mississauga results can be found here.

Check out our live updates page for select social media posts from the Mississauga Marathon and GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon. Or, see some below.

Social media posts from Toronto

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzTF6xAIYo/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTy5GAwglmL/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzEY7sh2ol/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzXm-Gj5eG/

(Those race medals though!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzxw69AfhI/

Social media posts from Mississauga

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzaKCyAF5y/

And they're off! GRE boys ready to roll @SaugaMarathon pic.twitter.com/FLh5moAGzA

— Tanis Bolton (@TanisBolton) May 7, 2017

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzKaJrh1DX/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzxXPFg4Ij/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTzlCFXFqU0/
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