Hope to Rosedale

Hope to Rosedale by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

• Weather: Low of 2c High of 7c (35.6 F to 44.6 F) wet and getting warmer
• Distance for yesterday: 41.08 km 25.52km 

• Distance for today: 39.79 km (24.72 mi) 

• Total Distance to Date: 7641.07 kl (4755.59 mi)

• Song of the Day: Is this Love - Bob Marley 

Today started with a drive to the District Of Hope to meet the Mayor. He was unavailable so we met with Councillor Robb  

He was a great guy and really fun to hang out with. He was curios, intelligent and a good guy. 


I was then on my to run some distance. Now we stopped running Saturday because the weather in the Manning area was just to bad. The elevation, the snow and the very narrow highway roads are just two dangerous for me to run on. With the CRV behind us there were to many close calls on the narrow tight windy roads. People just don't expect somebody to be running on the street. 


It is very important to me that I don't miss a step on my cross Canada run. However it is also not worth an accident. So we are re-running we have already done to equal the distance that I would have run if we had continued on the Manning park road. 

As you can see by the pictures from Saturday  it was hard to run and allow big delivery trucks to pass while keeping an eye out for oncoming traffic.

Yesterday we did not attempt to make up the distance as the weather was still bad. So we ran ahead and it was wet. I mean it was a good old BC rainstorm all day long. 

Today was a little bit better weather wise. It was a little wet, and cloudy but not to bad. After the meeting with Councillor Robb I then plugged away about 20 km (12 miles) 

After running for a bit we were off to Hope Senior Secondary. 

Sometimes we don't have permission to take pictures of the kids. They were fantastic. Once again I am always amazed by the intelligence and intellect because at this age I had neither ;') 

The talk went very well. Then I was back to running. 

 It was starting to get a little dark and we were on a bridge with limited passing room. So we called it a night. 

On Saturday I had a really difficult day. The roads were scary, I did not feel safe. I was dealing with an ongoing illness, some weird skin itchy thingy that wakes me up at 3:00 am making me want to sand my skin off. Plus I felt like I had to throw up or fill my pants. It was not a fun day.

My body is also taking it's tole. My muscles throb almost constantly and I have all sorts of foot damage going on. 

So I am exhausted, stressed, sleep deprived and feel my body feels like I had a round of ultimate fighting against Michael Bisping.

My anxiety started to rise so high. I was freaking out inside my own head. 

I snapped. I fully broke down mentally. I had nothing left in me. I had no more to give. 

I was able to run but I needed a couple of day's to reboot my brain. 

I wanted this cross country run to do several things. 1) bring awareness to brain injury 2) prevent the preventable brain injuries 3) show a side of brain injury to survivors and others that while I am not the old me. I am still someone. That a brain injury is not the end of you.  I also wanted to show how this run effected me, my family, Braintrust and what it was like from my point of view. 

So I apologize for the last two day's blog entries. I am so close to being finished. I have 11 more marathons to run. I am not going to stop now. 

Ok I have to stretch and chill out now.