The late Terry Fox
July 1958 - June 28 1981
July 1958 - June 28 1981
Last sunday, the whole bunch of Party of 5ive entered the Terry Fox run 2011 held at Padang Merbok KL recently. It was the second running event that we brought the kids along. The first was the KFC Walk of Charity Life about 2 weeks ago. The distance this time was a 3km family run which to me kira cam easy peasy lah considering I had done the furthest 10km (sungguh la eksyen) at the Putrajaya Night Marathon about a month ago.
Some facts about the The Terry Fox run. According to Wikipedia, Terrance Stanley Fox, the man who so much inspired the marathon of hope died in 1981 due to bone cancer. He contracted the disease when he was 18 years old. He was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete and also a cancer research activist. Such an impressive achievement for a young man of 22 years old! Admirable indeed.
When he decided to run to raise money for cancer awareness and research, he was already an amputee (he lost his right leg due to cancer). His aim was simple - to raise a dollar for each of Canada's 24 million population at the time. But he was forced to end the run eventually as cancer had spread to his lungs. He completed it in just 9 months before he succumbed to his illness.
To date, a cool $500 plus million had been collected throughout the marathon of hope yearly event since its inception. Today, The Terry Fox Run is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research. More information on the late Terry Fox here.
note the kid in the middle looking so forlorn...he was subtly giving a protest look when told that we will be running that morning..
memasing tengah sibuk buat hal sendiri..
budak tecit yg suka memerap..
tergolek dog..
I need my handyplastttt pronto!
We managed to complete the run albeit an injured runner (pic above). So drama king lah that kid huhu.
