Toronto!
We made it folks! 2897 miles, over 48 marathons each, 90 tour days and a much coveted week of rest (sort of), events, interviews, and time with family and friends.
We ran into the GTA on July 30th, and spent the first few days with our cousins, eating and visiting between interviews with the Weather Network, radio, television and newspapers. We still seem to always have so much to take care of that “rest days” have been officially renamed, “non-run days”.
Weather it’s Matt making friends with as many receptionists and radio DJ’s as he can, scoring interviews, or Steph cranking out another team building initiative from a midnight “I have a better way Matt!”, we are seriously proud of ourselves and Vanessa, our Road Manager Extraordinaire for making it to Toronto intact and ready to rumble!
As people know who have been reading our blog’s, we did some serious running (and V crewing) to make it here since departing our homes’ by the sea exactly 3 months ago yesterday!
The miles have entered our memories as each day has melded into one big marathon. Snow, rain, sun, mudslides, thunder storms, hills, flat continuous Prairies, wind, jaw dropping beauty and a lifetime of caloric burn. These are the stuff of dreams and we are lucky to be living ours every day. People meeting, sleep depleting. The experience has been 10 times in every direction and stretched us in as many ways. Life lessons at 6 miles an hour.
Our humble little tour continues to build strength, momentum and inspiration to make a difference. It feels like the perfect timing to stay in one area to rest (a bit), recharge and gear up for the next section of highway.
NEXT STOPS: Guelph, London and Woodstock……here we come!