jim's reasons

Running is for me a passion first, a vocation second (and in Canada, I promise you, passion is the metric with the higher rates of pay).

So why London? To run with the best and to do so on one of the world’s fastest courses. To run faster than I ever have over 26.2 miles and in so doing qualify for my ultimate running goal.

In a nutshell, to not only run fast, faster than I ever have, but to run faster than most ever will. All the way to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon.