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Miles for Millions considering a comeback
Wendy Warburton,
The Ottawa CitizenPublished:ÂSaturday, April 15, 2006
Long before there was race weekend,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], before the Run for the Cure and the Tour Nortel, even before the Terry Fox Run, there was Oxfam Canada's Miles for Millions.
That's right, miles. Founded in the days when Canada had not yet gone metric, it was this country's first sponsored walkathon.
Then-prime minister Lester Pearson led the very first walk in 1967, and on the Monday after,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the kids at my high school who had taken part were abuzz with excitement. The walk lasted one day and was 40 miles, or 64.3 kilometres,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], long -- far outdistancing the measly 42K marathon or even the newly arrived Weekend to End Breast Cancer, which is 60K and takes place over an entire weekend. And in the 1960s hardly anyone jogged or power-walked,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], yet alone owned high-tech walking shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which hadn't yet been invented.
As now, walkers had to find sponsors. Unlike now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], pledges were based on how far one actually walked; there was no lump-sum giving.
My sponsors for the 1968 walk agreed to pay me anywhere from five cents to 10 cents for every mile I completed. That meant if I managed to make the whole 40 miles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the most anyone had to pay was $4. It doesn't seem like much now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but when you figure that monthly mortgages then were about $100,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it was roughly $40 in today's money. No one gives me that much when I run,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], walk or bike for a good cause these days.
On the day of the walk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], some time in April, my girlfriends and I rose early so one of our fathers could drive us to the starting point on Parliament Hill. Before I left,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], my dad gave me this advice: Walk by yourself at your own pace instead of trying to stay with your friends. Take a second pair of shoes and socks. Never stop or sit down, just keep going.
Having spent many years in the army, my father was an expert on marching. Being a teenager,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I was an expert at knowing better than he did.
The route meandered along Rideau Street, across the Alexandra Bridge,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], up into Gatineau Park, back into Rockcliffe and eventually out to Moodie Drive in Nepean before ending at Carleton University. Much of the walk is lost in the mists of memory, although I do recall popping into a depanneur in Hull and testing my French in an effort to buy some lunch. There were no water stands along the way, no one cheering us on, no portable washrooms -- just 30,000 people wearing funny hats and cotton socks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], walking congenially in the same direction.
Along the route were checkpoints where people stamped our cards to validate how far we'd gone. It was this card we had to take back to our sponsors when the walk was over so we could collect our pledges, which we then mailed to Oxfam Canada.
By the time I'd reached mile 16, my feet had had it. Blisters were sprouting on blisters, some were bleeding and every muscle ached. Despite my dad's excellent suggestion to wear supportive leather shoes, I'd chosen instead to wear trendy canvas sneakers. And of course I'd walked with my friends and sat down to eat my lunch. Now I had to admit defeat and call for a ride.
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