A 66-year-old recreational athlete used to run the Vancouver Sun Run but now looks forward to walking the 10-km route. The 35th annual Vancouver Sun Run takes place on Sunday, April 14
In the 20 times that Johanna Mramor estimates she has completed the Vancouver Sun Run, she has run the 10-km course several times.Now, she is a plain ol’ walker.
For the 35th annual Sun Run on Sunday, April 14, she plans to be walking with a group of about nine to 10 walkers from her Sun Run training clinic at the South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre. She also finds she will walk to the grocery store or bank. When she was running, she never would have thought to run to do errands.
For runners, the injury rate, she said, is about 20 per cent and higher depending on the competitive intensity. For walking, the injury rate is only one per cent.“I will walk with them rather than trying to do my personal best,” she said. “It is all about the participants. It’s not about yourself as a leader. I see myself as a cheerleader and enabler with them.”
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