5 November, 2011
Where do you find your inspiration?
I often find mine on my runs. On many of those runs I have the advantage of passing what must be one of the most inspiring points one could imagine.
The Terry Fox memorial statue at Mile 0 on the Trans Canada Highway, Victoria BC. It’s a humbling but also encouraging reminder.
Terry Fox, of course, never got to this Mile 0.
At age 21, after having one leg amputated due to cancer, he began training and completed a marathon in Prince George, BC.
Then came the run that would define him, define persistence, define cancer fundraising for decades to come. He started at the other Mile 0 of the Trans Canada, some 8,000 km (5,000 miles) east in St. John’s Newfoundland. The Marathon of Hope covered a marathon distance every day from April through September 1.
