Guest post by Sarah Laister, TF’s Administrative Coordinator:

This past weekend, the PR Girlz at TFC had the pleasure of taking part in the 20^th Scotia Bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.  It’s the biggest in Canada and held right here in Toronto every September.

The marathon is great opportunity for runners of all shapes and sizes to come out and push themselves to their personal best.  In fact, this year a new record was set for the fastest marathon run on Canadian soil by Kenneth Mungara.  Kenneth ran the full marathon in just 2 hours and 8 minutes!  Incredible.   But the marathon also provides the chance for participants to raise money the charity of their choice through sponsorships.  Over, $1.8 million was raised this year alone for dozens of different charities  around the country.

Now, for the reason I’m writing about all of this instead of just providing a link to the Marathon website…

At 8:00am Sunday morning, I rolled out of bed, grabbed a coffee and navigated my way through the maze of re-routed streetcars to meet up with some of my fellow “PR Girlz” at Union Station.  From there we were heading down to the starting line at the CNE grounds to walk the 5km in support of the Canadian Pain Coalition’s first fundraiser “Pennies for Pain.”  The Canadian Pain Coalition is a patient association we’ve had the privilege of working with through one of our clients.

Naturally, we were more than happy to participate and walk in support of such a worthy cause.  I, for one, had a lot of fun on Sunday morning and I’m pretty sure the TFC ladies walking with me feel the same way.  It was so refreshing to be up on a Sunday morning (walking on Lakeshore Boulevard under the Gardiner Expressway!), when I would usually be fast asleep.  But as I watched the marathon runners cross the finish line I felt both lazy and completely inspired.  Perhaps I’ll work my way up to the half-marathon for next year.  Until then, here’s a picture of myself and the TFC “PR Girlz” between the crossing the finish line and breakfast at Fran’s.