This year the Blue Nose International Marathon race route is being designed to again showcase the City of Halifax and the natural beauty of our city surroundings.

Blue Nose International Marathon

Human Interest Story

Race officials of the Blue Nose Marathon are taking an official review of the latest edition of the race. Multiple complaints stemming from relay runners being jammed together and not being able to make the exchange have led to a complete race review.

Blue Nose Marathon blues

Post-Race Review/ Results

Terry Melloy won the 5th annual Blue Nose Marathon with a time of 2 hours 48 minutes and 45 seconds on Sunday.The marathon ran through the streets of Halifax and Dartmouth. It was Melloy's seventh career marathon the Boston Marathon veteran claimed his fifth victory. Melloy, 48, won by nearly seven minutes over the runner up from Summerside, Scott Clark. Clark, who was second for the second straight, year in a time of 2:55.12 with a field of 262 runners.

Melloy wins Blue Nose Marathon by nearly seven minutes

Joachim Stroink, race director of the Blue Nose Marathon, expects seven thousand participants to the 2008 event.  The Halifax businessman has been the volunteer race director for five years in which he watched the event grow.  2008 marks his last year in the role as he wants to focus with the charity with the Learning Disabilities Association which have helped his two children who have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.

Marathon Summary

Marathon Results