Today's Vancouver Sun has a two page feature on Terry Fox on page B2-B3. It leads off with a story about how Terry came into the world at a hospital in Winnipeg. Tomorrow's edition will feature his relationship with his younger brother Darrell who accompanied Terry on his Marathon of Hope.
This year is the 25th anniversary of Terry's Marathon of Hope, which saw him run 2/3 of the way across Canada from New Found Land to Thunder Bay, Ontario. This year I will write stories about Terry Fox and my own experiences about surviving cancer in 1989, and subsequently becoming a Terry's Team member in 1993. Terry's Team members serve as living examples that cancer research has made a difference, and speak at Terry Fox Runs, as well as elementary schools - as I have done every year since Terry's brother Darrell asked me to become a Terry's Team member in 1993.
"How could somebody run a marathon a day?" asked my favorite barista Rob, at my favorite Vancouver coffee bar (Guttenberg's at Library Square) this morning, when I told him about the Vancouver Sun article. I shared with Rob some of the stories I had been told by Terry's coaches and family. He had always been an enormously driven person, recieving Athelete of the Year of PoCo when he graduated from Port Coquitlam high school.
More later....see other stories at http://www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com/blog/TerryFox
