Crowning the ultimate recovery - bumrun 5K
Bumrun aims to raise funds for and awareness of colon cancer. The fact that the Calgary version of their nationwide 5k races starts and finishes at Foothills Medical Centre is highly fitting for me, as n early 9 years ago at FMC I had 3 neurological operations, the 1st of which was urgent. The opportunity for me to completely redeem myself is how and why I was at that start line on May 10th at 9am. About a minute before the race began, an ambulance passed, fittingly with its lights and a few seconds of its siren expressing kudos to the 140 participants, not only just for me. Having lined up near the front, my plan was to have the frontrunners as pacemakers - a means of ensuring that 5 minutes per kilometre would be the slowest I would run. Before the first road crossing, I also ascertained that there were 10 in front of me. Af...