Lotsa good walking butts!

Here is the rocking walk star Tam family team - each an age category winner!

It was a spectacular weekend for walkers as the KW Walking Classic in Kitchener Waterloo celebrated an overwhelming response in both quantity and quality of walking participants at their third annual event. There were some butts in serious workout mode on that course!

This year the organizers introduced a half marathon and the distance drew more competitors than either the 5k or the 10k events. Each event fielded more than 200 participants.

Four judges on the course ensured that everyone was walking according to the Common Sense rules posted on the race website.

The course was a challenging series of rolling hills, the start and finish areas were well organized, and there were some yummy snacks at the finish. I liked the protein on offer including peanut butter and cottage cheese. We need carbs before the race but we need carbs and protein within an hour of finishing.

Being the geek that I am (and isn't there a little bit of geek in all of us?), I love the fact that the last 1/4k leading up to the finish area we pass the Perimeter Institute - a gem of a research institute that can claim Stephen Hawking as a regularly visiting Distinguished Research Chair . The building is featured in a book called "1,001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: the world's architectural masterpieces" .

The KW Walking Classic belongs in such exclusive landscape as a gem and a masterpiece of a walking race!