North Shore Terry Fox Run 2013

Event Details

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Inter River Park

The Terry Fox Run is a family-oriented, fun-filled event and welcomes all members of the community. The event is non-competitive. Partcipants can walk, run, hike or bike a 1 km, 2 km, 5 km or 10 km distance.

There is no pre-registration or registration fee for the Terry Fox Run and no minimum amount to raise. We do, however, ask that particpants make a donation at the event, online, or collect money.

Download a pledge sheet at www.rotarynorthvan.com

Quick Race Facts:

•Race starts at 10am, registration at 9am (at Inter River Park)
•10, 5, 2, and 1 kilometer routes
•Suitable for bikes, but not for wheelchairs/strollers or rollerblades
•Dogs on leash welcome

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.

While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.

It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.

After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran close to 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario. However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22.

The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, over $600 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry’s name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

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