Edwin and Bergeron Joggle 3:00:06 Marathons on Same Day

October 15, 2023 will go down as one of the most remarkable in joggling history with two jogglers joggling marathons on the same day in the exact same time of 3 hours and 6 seconds, an Atlantic Ocean apart from each other.

Chris Edwin joggling the 2023 Yorkshire Marathon
(Photo via Chris Edwin)

First, U.K.'s Chris Edwin smashed his personal best joggling marathon time at the Yorkshire Marathon to become the third-fastest joggling marathoner of all time after me and Zach Warren. Later that same day, Canada's Michael-Lucien Bergeron set off on the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon on a blazing joggling pace ahead of my world record 2:50:12, but suffered some cramping to finish in 3:00:06 and tying Edwin on the third all-time marathon joggling list.

Many things can go wrong with you're running a marathon. Add juggling to the mix and the number of things that can go wrong increases exponentially. Here's how Bergeron described his race, in an Instagram post:

Michael-Lucien Bergeron joggling the
2023 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon
(Photo via Michael-Lucien Bergeron)

"What went wrong: When joggling you don’t have easily access to knowing your pace, so you rely on people around you. I had intended on running with Jennie for the first bit of the race but started to far back which took me over 5km to catch up to her. By that time, I was already running at a decent clip and decided to keep going, clocking a 1h22min30sec half marathon. From there things started to go wrong, with hot stop under my feet and stomach cramping. The pace was slowing down by 30km and I stop around 31.5km for a couple second contemplating just quitting. Some cheering from the sideline got me back in the race. Around 35km I started having an extreme pain in my left wrist, which is still present 24h later, likely overuse of tossing balls for 3h straight lol. With 2km to go, I got major cramping in my legs and even laid down on the ground for 1-2min while someone gave me a massage and someone else poured Gatorade in my mouth. I looked at my watch and got back up and tried sprinting to break 3h but finished 6sec over the mark in a time of 3h00min06sec. One last thing is that every time I needed to hydrate or anytime, I dropped a ball I had to stop forward movement to hydrate or pick up the ball which generated some lactic stress on the body."

Looking forward to seeing what these two guys can do in future marathons. And hopefully they can do a Kapral-Warren-style joggling marathon duel at some point in the near future. 

Best 5-ball Joggling Training Run Ever

I found the perfect 5-ball joggling training area in Port Hope. It’s a 500m stretch of newly paved bike and pedestrian path with no overhead trees and almost no other people. The other day I ran back and forth along this route to do some roughly timed 5-ball jaunts. I still usually drop about every 100m, but if I’m not worried about cars or other potential obstacles, I can often make it further. 

Midway through the 7km 5-ball training session, I glanced at my watch just before I started another half-kilometre interval along the path and boom, everything just clicked and I cruised the entire 500m without dropping a ball. I looked at my watch just after I stopped and it was somewhere around 2 minutes and 5 seconds, so about a 6:30 mile, and right on Matt Feldman’s 5-ball joggling mile world record pace. I did a little celebratory dance and continued on. I clicked off a bunch of other solid runs after that, including this one that Dianne filmed near the end of the session.