(10,000m Champ)Sergio Raez Villanueva Is Back Baby!

The Terminal Mile

Sergio Ráez Villanueva, or simply Sergio as he’s known by many, really came into the consciousness of the running nation when as a student at McMaster he won the 2018 10,000m Canadian Championship in an all out sprint finish, qualifying him for the NACAC games. But shortly after the Peruvian-born Canadian ran at those NACAC games, he all but disappeared, with only a few out of character races sprinkled in. Flash forward to last month though, and out of nowhere, word came that Sergio had run an unofficial 63:57 debut half marathon time trial, with next to no taper or specific training. Of course, we had to follow up, and that’s what we do on this week’s episode