If you don’t know who he is, go find out now. Okay, ok, I’ll give you a little summary. In his late teens he got bone cancer in his leg. They had to amputate it. He had previously been a big athlete, and he decided that with his prosthetic leg, he would run across Canada. From the Atlantic, to the Pacific (and his home in Vancouver). He trained for 18 months. Then, he ran a marathon every day for 143 days. It was called the Marathon of Hope. He did it to raise money for cancer research. Then, his goal became to raise one dollar for every Canadian. However, his journey was cut short. You see, he had developed lung cancer in both of his lungs, and he was dying. Terry Fox was forced to stop his run just outside of Thunder Bay Ontario. He died the following June (he stopped September 1st), at 22 years old.
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I read about Terry in a “Runner’s World” magazine article. He was an amazing person, I agree… and worth blogging about. It’s nice to hear you all honor him each year.