Day 110 August 24, 2011 St Eustache to Portage La Prairie 51km
27 Aug
Holy headwind
There was a massive 70km/hr headwind to start the day. It was brutal and I was exhausted after only about 15km. My pace was super slow and I could stop and lean forward and not fall over. I so wished that I was running the other way, my pace would have been incredible.
I had to take so many breaks that we then decided that I should try running behind the MCC. I was a little worried about it seeing as it was less than a week ago that Ken smashed into the back of our RV, but the shoulder was so big that we could be entirely off the road with the rumble strip between us and the road. In order for it to work though I had to run within about 2 feet of the back of the bus. It made a huge difference though. There was absolutely no headwind at all back there, though I could still feel it on my legs. It was also way hotter now that there was no wind. The only real problem with it was that Mike controlled my pace and I just had to run at the speed he drove at.
As I was running behind the MCC a CBC car from The National pulled up and out came Reg Sherren along with Warren and Terry. They had come out to do a 3-4 minute feature on me for Friday’s edition of The National. They were planning on having a special edition mainly dedicated to cancer and Jack Layton whose funeral is on Saturday.
They spent over an hour with us interviewing Mike and me and taking lots of running footage. At the same time my dad was being interviewed in Vancouver. They spent over 10km filming me as I ran, including pretty much the whole run through Portage La Prairie. Once they were done is was 3:30pm and we hadn’t had lunch so we pulled into a school parking lot and after eating took a quick nap.
Once the run was done we drove to Canadian Tire to finally get a fly swatter after countless days of living with flies in the RV. I’ve been looking forward to getting one for weeks.
We spent the night in the McDonalds parking lot so we could hijack their free WiFi and get ice cream after dinner. It was also air conditioned inside, a nice change from our smoking hot RV.
I really hope it cools off otherwise it’s going to be a long night!
There was a massive 70km/hr headwind to start the day. It was brutal and I was exhausted after only about 15km. My pace was super slow and I could stop and lean forward and not fall over. I so wished that I was running the other way, my pace would have been incredible.
I had to take so many breaks that we then decided that I should try running behind the MCC. I was a little worried about it seeing as it was less than a week ago that Ken smashed into the back of our RV, but the shoulder was so big that we could be entirely off the road with the rumble strip between us and the road. In order for it to work though I had to run within about 2 feet of the back of the bus. It made a huge difference though. There was absolutely no headwind at all back there, though I could still feel it on my legs. It was also way hotter now that there was no wind. The only real problem with it was that Mike controlled my pace and I just had to run at the speed he drove at.
As I was running behind the MCC a CBC car from The National pulled up and out came Reg Sherren along with Warren and Terry. They had come out to do a 3-4 minute feature on me for Friday’s edition of The National. They were planning on having a special edition mainly dedicated to cancer and Jack Layton whose funeral is on Saturday.
They spent over an hour with us interviewing Mike and me and taking lots of running footage. At the same time my dad was being interviewed in Vancouver. They spent over 10km filming me as I ran, including pretty much the whole run through Portage La Prairie. Once they were done is was 3:30pm and we hadn’t had lunch so we pulled into a school parking lot and after eating took a quick nap.
Once the run was done we drove to Canadian Tire to finally get a fly swatter after countless days of living with flies in the RV. I’ve been looking forward to getting one for weeks.
We spent the night in the McDonalds parking lot so we could hijack their free WiFi and get ice cream after dinner. It was also air conditioned inside, a nice change from our smoking hot RV.
I really hope it cools off otherwise it’s going to be a long night!
