I am not a runner.

It sounded like a good idea - and Anita promised it would be fun - so I signed up for a 10 km run. I have not run since high school but it seemed like a good training opportunity when the skiing ended and before the biking really began. Anita was persistent in getting us out a couple of times a week and the energy grew - as well as the running group.

The run was in support of Camp Oochigeas, a summer camp in Muskoka for kids with cancer.

So I lined up yesterday (without my morning coffee!!! GREG!!!) with 14,000 others at the Sporting Life store north of Yonge and Eglinton. Yellow jerseys as far as you could see. (Check out the photo.) By the time we started yesterday, our group had expanded to a number of the Raithby family, too. I did enjoy the company of my sister most of the way down Yonge Street. We all ran down Yonge Street, past the upscale sections north of Bloor and the seedy sections south of Bloor, past Dundas Square and up Richmond, past Gretzky's and finally into Old Fort York.

All in all, $800,000 was raised.

I am still not a runner . . . but I'd do it again.

Four weeks this Friday until Russ and I are putting on our movie night at the Rene Caisse Theatre in support of the Ride to Conquer Cancer, the Three Rivers Project and Cameron Helps. For more information on these charities, please go to the Links page. Mark that night on the calendar. More information soon on this event.

Now it is time to get back on the bike. I see that Kai Slaughter has now raised $2,500 for next month's Ride to Conquer Cancer. Way to go, Kai!

Cheers,

David Raithby