40 years ago today Terry Fox, a 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and made it to 145 days and 5,373km before he was forced to stop and he lost his battle with cancer.
I picked up running during covid and eventually started running marathons. After running my first one, it took me a week to recover. Terry Fox ran one every day but he had only one leg which means it was like running two marathons per day. He’s an absolute beast.