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October 09, 2005
Terry Fox Walkathon
Saturday morning, bright and early, Pamela, Heidi and I head for the 2005 Chiang Mai Terry Fox 10k Marathon/ 2.5k walk. For 200 Baht we entered the ‘race’, got a free T-Shirt and were potential winners of some enticing raffle prizes. Heidi quickly half forgot about us as she met up with some Swiss friends. That left Pam and I to stand about waiting for the start of the race watching people do calisthenics. 
At one point a young girl from approached and interviewed the three of us for a public radio station in Canada. Some how I don’t think our less than enthusiastic responses from an American, a Swiss and a Singaporean are going to make the cut.
So, after what seemed like ages, the 10k race got underway. Very shortly after our walk-a-thon starts. Pam reminds me of the story she tells of her first and only marathon experience: the trailing ambulance picked her up saying that they could not follow her any longer as they needed to finish things up. This would later turn out to be very close to the truth for our walk—Pam and I were the very last two people to finish the walk, sans the five children holding up a Terry Fox banner and the ambulance. The leading contestants in the 10k run actually finished before we did! 
Whatever. It was for charity and we have the T-Shirts to prove it.
And the Canadian ambassador was there!
Posted by stu at October 9, 2005 08:08 AM