It is Wednesday, my dudes. Uft- it was hard to get out of bed this morning, hearing that rain coming down it takes that bit more effort to get out the door. But once again you all made it worth it, you showed up despite the rain and the darkness and you brought the fire this morning.
Now, buckle up, this is going to be an emotional one. Terry Fox. If you went to school after the 80’s, work in a school now, have a child, have looked at the picture on a loonie or have been in Canada in September you will probably know who Terry Fox is. I was an emotional kid and I spent every Terry Fox assembly trying to hide from the other kids that I was crying (I’m not crying- you’re crying). But after a certain point Terry’s was a story that I’d heard so many times that I’d stopped really examining it. It turned into – ‘Terry Fox, dope Canadian hero, ran really far, great hair, cancer awareness, yadda, yadda’.
Until last year, at the school I work at, during the morning announcements in September, the ‘Terry Fact of the Day’ was that Terry ran a full marathon every day for 143 days. I stopped cold in my tracks. A. FULL. MARATHON. EVERY. DAY. Think for a minute about how truly remarkable that is. Terry Fox was only 21 years old, he had a prosthetic leg, he had recently fought cancer and he ran a full marathon for 143 consecutive days. He ran 5373 kilometers across Canada until he was forced to stop. I am gassed for weeks after running one marathon, and I am completely healthy. read more
