Let your feet do your talking. Approximately 75 people showed their support for community by running in the Out Run Rare fun run on Saturday in support of Okotoks’ own Dave Proctor. Residents get a chance to do it again this weekend, with Saturday’s Sheep River Road Race and the Terry Fox Run on Sunday. I plan to do both. It’s been a few years since I ran the Sheep, but I’ve known of the contribution of the organizing group, the Big Rock Runners. They have promoted running for years and have started the Okotoks Track and Cross-Country Club to promote running among youth. There may be no better activity than running for a lifetime sport. Even a geezer like me, who remembers the imposter running into the stadium in front of Frank Shorter at the ‘72 Olympics, can run. At least I got to be a geezer. Canada’s great hero, Terry Fox, didn’t have the chance to get my near seventh decade. He brought tears to all of Canada when he had to stop his cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research on Sept. 1, 1980. He died the following year. Fox would have been 60 this year. However, since his death, Terry Fox runs across Canada have raised hundreds of millions to fight cancer. One of those runs is in Okotoks this Sunday at 11 a.m. (registration starts at 9:30 a.m.) at Crystal Shores Beach House, or go to terryfox.org. There are great chances to run for community this weekend. And be thankful you can do it as an old geezer if that happens to be the case.
