Thanks to Paul Kennedy and the CBC Radio ONE IDEAS program for covering the 2011 Footprints Symposium.  Click here to listen to the June 2nd broadcast.

Tune into CBC Radio ONE on Thursday, June 2nd at 9:00pm and listen to IDEAS.  In this episode Paul Kennedy moderates a recent discussion put together by Run for Life.  Footprints looks at the value of sport to society and this year we explored the link between aerobic activity and the learning environment. Click here Read more about Tune into CBC Radio ONE June 2nd for Footprints[…]

Congrats to the  students, teachers, volunteers who took part in the Waterloo Region Run for Life spring celebration.  Results for the 1500m timed run can be found here.

Congrats to The Queen Elizabeth Running club in Sault Ste. Marie.  This school has applied for and received a “Green Apple” grant to build a running trail on their school property. Read here for more details

WOW.   Run for Life students have collectively recorded more than 30,000kms on the km tracker!  Keep up the great work. Click here to see some of our participating schools.  If you have built a web page for you school and need some help contact us and we can help you get started with your Read more about 30,000km![…]

Just a seconds separated two Guelph runners Reid Coolsaet (28:08) and Eric Gillis as they finished 1-2 in Toronto’s Sporting Life 10km.   Full story here.  On April 30th,  Run for Life Footprints symposium attendees were fortunate enough to be  able to ask Reid questions about his recent high altitude training in Kenya.

Join us on Saturday at the Digital Media HUB in Kitchener for Footprints!  Canadian Marathon champion  Reid Coolsaet will  share his recent experiences and  Giller nominated author and runner Alex MacLeod will read from his short story The  Miracle Mile.  Registration closes April 28th  Follow the link

Thanks to Southwood Secondary School in Cambridge Ontario for participating in Run for Life’s Old Soles program.  The school  has collected more than 3 “truckloads” of books that will be used to support an overseas library in Rural Kenya.

A huge thank you to all the volunteers that make Run for Life possible such as Beth McCallum at Doverwood Public School in Port Dover – her school is off and running. Read here

Give up the double knot and come on over to the Swiss knot.  It could change your running forever!