Women-only Émilie’s Run set for April 21 at the Experimental Farm

Ottawa, January 22, 2018 — Run Ottawa has announced that this year’s Émilie’s Run – its competitive women-only 5K race – will take place Saturday, April 21 at the Experimental Farm.

“We made the decision to change the race date from September to April to allow runners to use the event as a training run for the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend,” said John Halvorsen, President, Run Ottawa. “We also decided to move the event from the Aviation Parkway to the Experimental Farm, as it’s more central and spectator-friendly, and has also proven to be a really fast and flat 5k course.”

The Experimental Farm has been the home of Run Ottawa’s popular Free 5K series for the past 4 years.

Émilie’s Run takes place on an Athletics Canada/Run Canada certified course. Since inception, the race has been draw for Canada and the world’s fastest elite female runners, like New Zealand’s Mary Davies and Kenya’s Lucy Njeri Macharia. Canadian Rachel Hannah is the event’s only three-time champion, and also set the course record of 15:57.5 in 2014. In 2017, Julie-Anne Staehli of Kingston, ON won in 16:25.8.

The race, which started in 2005, was renamed Émilie’s Run in 2007 in memory of Émilie Mondor, an Olympian at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the first Canadian woman to run sub 15:00 for 5K. Mondor, who was born in Mascouche, Quebec, was killed in a car accident on September 9^th, 2006, at the age of 25.

For more information on Émilie’s Run and to register, please visit www.runottawa.ca.