Terry Fox - Inspiration of my 8000km Across Canada expedition

Terry Fox - this young man became the inspiration for me to walk 8000km Across Canada.

On April 12th, 1980 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Terry Fox – a Canadian student and athlete – starts a cross-Canada run with a symbolic immersion of his prosthetic leg in the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.

The run named Marathon of Hope by one of the greatest national heroes of Canada was a breakthrough moment in raising social awareness and an apt metaphor for prolonged, hard, and still in many cases merciless fight of human nature against cancer. Terry Fox lost this fight – he died 9 months later.

In the 21st century when tumour complications are flooding our modern world, Terry Fox’s heroic feat – 5373 km in 143 days – is assuming even greater significance and the pride with which each day he ran the distance of classic marathon has been a constant inspiration for people all over the world.

Many of them decide to run this killing distance out of ordinary spiritual need – to commemorate a loved one, to get to know themselves or to become a better human. One of them is Jakub Muda.

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