Run for 1 Planet

Well, a few weeks ago I was reading the running edition of Impact magazine and read an article about these 2 people who were going to each run a marathon a day for a year. They were the founders of a charity called "Run for 1 planet" and their goal was to run around North America in a year raising awareness for environmental action. When I was on my vacation a couple of weeks ago we were driving through Northern Ontario and saw a runner on the side of the highway. My wife and I thought this was odd until we saw a motor home on the side of the highway that was all decaled up with run for 1 planet stuff. I remembered the article and told my wife about the group and what they are doing, so we decided to join them for a few kms.

The back of the motor home

Tasha went out first and ran with Steph for a while and I went down the highway and waited with the motor home. Matt came out and we had a little chat as we waited for Steph and Tasha to arrive. What a positive and energetic guy. We didn't get to talk for to long as he was also the driver of the motor home so he was heading down the high way to meet up with Steph and Tasha. I followed along and puled over a few kms down the road to wait for them and to get a couple of pictures. Matt and Steph switched at the next stop the motor home made so Tasha ran with Matt for a little while before I switched with Tasha.

Tasha running with Matt

I ran with Matt for about 5k and had a chance to talk to him about how the run was going. One of the goals they have is to start a marathon in each major city that they have run through during their year long run. So I am thinking about trying to get on started in Calgary, it would be a trail marathon as there are not many in the area. I am looking forward to the challenge or organizing and marketing such a race.

Tasha running with Steph

We wished we had more time to spending running with Matt and Steph but we did have to get moving as we were on our way to Sault Sainte Marie. We spent over an hour running with them and at the end of it I felt inspired to find something epic to do in my life. Anyone have an idea?

Me running with Matt

Blogging Frequency

Well, I have to admit I have down right sucked at keeping up on my blog postings. I think it is mostly due to that fact that I have not been doing much this summer. My running is down, being outdoors in general is down and it is almost half way through the summer man do I have some catching up to do. The first thing I am doing is going camping for the last week of July, not sure where yet but it will be in the beautiful outdoors and hopefully real close to a lake for some paddling the other thing it will need is trails close by. Oh, I can't wait.