The last time I walked through Toronto’s Kensington Market I got to see a group of six or so guys playing hackey sack in the middle of the street, with all of them drinking from tall boys of beer. It’s that kind of place and you don’t have to walk very far to get a whiff of pot.
I can’t describe it much better than “it’s that kind of place,” but it’s definitely not the area where I’d expect to see, oh, Olympic-style weightlifting.
I was out of town this weekend, but that’s exactly what people got to see on Sunday:
Photo by mynameisdan. Click here to see the whole album.
As he explained on reddit, the event was put on by the U of T Weightlifting Club with assistance of friends at UTM, Quantum Crossfit, Variety Village, and the McMaster Weightlifting club, and they hope to do another one soon.
There’ve been a number of battles in the past over larger corporations trying (and generally failing) to establish a footprint in Kensington, but hopefully the lifters can coexist with the hippies and anarchists I generally associate with the area, because I’d love to see more of this!
(Especially in that location, which looks to be just down the street from Hot Beans! Nothing like looking at people lift double or triple what I can while I eat a burrito, it really saves me the trouble of wondering why they’re so much stronger…)