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Category: General Running and/or Fitness
May 5, 2012
Goal Surpassed for Fundraising for Trillium Health Centre
Tomorrow, I’m running the Mississauga Half-Marathon as a fundraiser for the Trillium Health Centre Foundation. My goal was to raise $500. Today I turned in a cheque for $670!! And I’m still collecting online donations: https://www.trilliumgiving.ca/donation/missmarathon I’m having too much fun with this costume. I thought I’d play with it a little more. My inspiration for the image
April 30, 2012
Fundraising for the Trillium Health Centre!
This Sunday, I am going to be running the Mississauga Half-Marathon as a fundraiser for the Trillium Health Centre Foundation. And, in honour of fundraising, I decided I’m going to run it in a costume! About the Trillium Health Centre The Trillium Health Centre is a hospital system in Mississauga and Etobicoke. The original Trillium Health Centre was founded when the former Mississauga Hospital and Queensway hospital were merged. Recently, the Trillium Health Centre also merged with the Credit Valley Hospital. This hospital is very important to me. I was born at the Mississauga Hospital. My mother worked[…continue reading]
April 26, 2012
Mississauga Marathon Recon
The final leg of the “Southern Ontario Triple Crown” is fast approaching. My reconnaissance post about the Valley Inn Road hill for Around The Bay was very popular, so I thought I’d do something similar in the lead-up to the Mississauga Marathon and Half-Marathon. I run many parts of this course on a regular basis, so I have experience not only running the full route, but also running many variations of it. The Mississauga Marathon’s website provides pretty good details, including a printable PDF map and a Google Maps based version: Full and Half-Marathon Printable Map Half-Marathon gmap Full-Marathon gmap[…continue reading]
