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September 25th, 2022!

Oh yes, TRL is back! 10 km Race: ✔ 5 km Race: ✔ 2 km Fun Walk / Run: ✔ Dry Clothes Drop-Off: ✔ Food & Beverage: ✔ Friendly smiles & fun wholesome atmosphere: ✔ Rain: ☓ ( we’re manifesting

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Ted’s Run for Literacy 2019 Results

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Who Is Ted, Anyways?

Full disclosure: I am not a runner.  I long tried to be, I wanted to be a runner.  I saw people exhausted but happy, having completed their first marathon, I saw their determination and strength; but alas, whenever my feet

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Top 10 reasons to be a Ted’s Run for Literacy Runner/Volunteer

10)That warm feeling it brings in your heart in supporting CanU! 9)Awesome swag! 8)Be a part of a team with a “specific set of skills.” 7) Be a part of the only race that connects two beautiful city parks! 6)

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TRL Coffee Table – Tom Malone, Course Director and Resident Hugger

TRL: What are you reading? TM: The Power of Now by Eckhart Toll – for the second time. TRL: What’s it about? TM: To sum it up, it walks one through a journey of enlightenment to live in the present.

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TRL Coffee Table – Carly Walsh, Ted’s Run for Literacy Social Media & Promotions

TRL; What are you currently reading? CW: I’m switching between Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (e-book) and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (real book). TRL: What made you pick those books? CW: Honestly, I picked

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TRL Coffee Table – Darcie Wadelius, TRL Co-Race Director

TRL: What was the last book you read? DW: The last book I read was Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. TRL: Why did you pick it? DW: I chose this book as I just happened to be perusing the book

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The Tallest Poppy Run Club – Starting July

  The Tallest Poppy Run Club Who  The Tallest Poppy Run Club is inclusive of all runners of all abilities.  Our target neighbourhoods are Wolseley and West Broadway, but other folks are welcome.  The Tallest Poppy Run Club will be led by

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Lori Roberts, our latest People of TRL interview, who’s running her first 10km race at TRL 2015

Ted’s Run for Literacy: When did you start running and why? Lori Roberts: Sitting around a campfire with friends one night in July 2012, I made a suggestion that the five of us should sign up for the 2013 Manitoba

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People of TRL – Petra Rapmund, runner and TRL board alumni

Ted’s Run for Literacy – When did you start running and why? Petra Rapmund – I started running in my early 40s after the death of my mom. I took up running to quit a 20+ year smoking habit. I

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