Ted Swain was an avid runner and as a teacher of English, was passionate about reading and literature. His passions inspired thousands of students and hundreds of runners. Tragically, Ted passed away on May 3rd, 2009 following his successful finish of the Police Half Marathon. In Ted’s memory we have established Ted’s Run for Literacy. The money generated from the run will be donated to
Start2Finish, Empower Kids For Life, a charitable organization that supports reading and physical activity within Winnipeg’s central schools, a fitting legacy for Ted.
Ted's Run will include a 5 kilometer family-fun-run and a fully sanctioned, timed 10 kilometer run. The race is a looped course starting at Kildonan Park.
Many of us ran with Ted, indeed many of us were trained by Ted. He is remembered always for his patience, his love of running, and his huge welcoming grin. Shortly after he died I blogged a
memorial post to which many of you contributed.
Please save the date and send this link to all your runner pals.
Ted liked it when I ended my blog posts with "It's a good day to be alive". This one's for him.
Race Director and old friend, Mike
8 comments:
Hi Mike! This is a great event that you are planning and I'm excited to be part of it. I never knew Ted that well but those I know spoke well of him. Being part of the Kidfest Running and Reading program at Sister MacNamara has been fun and rewarding coming from a runner/teacher position. I'll be sure to pas on the info to many of the Roadkill runners throughout the season .....see you soon, Cheers, Aldo Furlan
Thanks Aldo. I'm looking forward to meeting you. I hear great things about you. Mike
Mike, this sounds like an awesome event!
Of course, you can count me in!
It will be ret event Connie. thanks SO much for your support! You would have loved TED. Mike
He was the best English teacher I had. I'm saddened to hear of his passing.
Thank you Dale for your comment. I hope you will consider joining us on October 23. Mike
Hey Mike. Ted taught me many things about running ... in fact each training run I came home with a nugget of info to add to my running arsenol .... things like ... taking glucosomine; respecting the miles .. and coaching us "newbies" about some runners being motivated by speed and some who are not... and that it was ok because in the end " it's all about the running journey!" At a Sunday morning run club, I fondly recall hearing Ted's voice behind me as I passed his running clinic down Centennial ... " you show 'em how its done Petra!" ....
So Ted... this one's for you:)
Thanks Petra. You have such fond memories of Ted. Thanks so much for sharing. Mike
Post a Comment