Who is Tommy Thompson anyways?
And why did they name a park after him? I can’t believe this is a park. It looks more like a landfill.” Ah, the thoughts that fill desperate, empty minds. I needed to find someone to talk to. So I looked behind and there were the two women, still bemused by my telephone conversation. We began to chat. They were best friends from London – grew up together and trained for this race together. No running club. They just bought the Running Room training book and did it on their own. “Amazing!” I said. “I could never do that!” They said they couldn’t have done it without each other. I thought of Anna. I couldn’t have done it without her. That’s when I realized what Canada Fit meant to me. I had taken for granted what these volunteers had done week after week – the planned schedules, the organized routes, the water stations, the seminars, the benchmarks, the speed training, the hill training, and most of all, the coaching. It really did take a village to train me. And all I did was show up! H
