Terry Fox Runs 5,373 Kilometres Across Canada to Raise Cancer Awareness

…awareness for cancer research along the way. He ran close to 42 kilometres daily. His route took him through six provinces, and crowds gradually began gathering along roads and in towns to watch the young runner pass. " He ran through snow, rain, wind, heat, humidity. He stopped in more than 400 towns, schools and cities to talk about why he was running. He started at 4:30am in the morning, and often did not finish his last mile until 7pm at night ," Terry Fox Foundation says on its website. There was also a deeper irony to the journey: Fox was running to raise money for cancer research while still carrying the possibility that cancer could return. On September…