Mt. Edward Grocery Memorial 5 Mile Run and a couple of Run4Wishes miles

It was sunny and 15 degrees.

The Mt. Edward Grocery Memorial 5 Mile Run in Sherwood. The 2.5km loop course on Mt. Edward Rd. and Maple Ave.

Troy Cox from Ontario won the race and Rebecca Pike for the top female.

I finished in 35:38 and came in 11th out of 58 runners.

Official Result: 11th out of 58
5 Miles in 35 minutes, 38 seconds

2009 Mt. Edward Grocery Run
2008 Mt. Edward Grocery Run
2007 Mt. Edward Grocery Run
2006 Mt. Edward Grocery Run
2005 Mt. Edward Grocery Run
2004 Mt. Edward Grocery Run


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Photos from the Mount Edward Road Run (2004-2010)

Afternoon I ran the 3km with my mom on bike with The Run4Wishes crew
from Cymbria to Oyster Bed Bridge. They are going all way to Charlottetown.

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HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN Annual RUN 4 WISHES

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HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN Annual RUN 4 WISHES
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Posted on July 27, 2010 at 04:03:39 PM by J.D. Forbes

Hello everyone!

Crewmembers from HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN will be coming to PEI again this year to participate in our annual charity event, the "RUN 4 WISHES." This is the 8th year that sailors from HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN will be running a relay across the Island to raise money for the PEI chapter of the Children's Wish Foundation.

We will be running on the following dates:

Tuesday, August 3rd- North Cape Lighthouse to Summerside

Wednesday, August 4th- East Point to Montague

Thursday, August 5th- Wood Island to West Royalty

Friday, August 6th- Georgetown to Stratford

Saturday, August 7th- Summerside to Charlottetown

As in past years, all members of the PEI RoadRunners are invited to come out and join the team during our runs. Thanks for all the support from the PEI Roadrunners over the years!

Thanks,

J.D. Forbes
Lieutenant (Navy)
Run 4 Wishes Coordinator
HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN

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2010-08-02 - Run 4 Wishes kicked off in Charlottetown

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Mayor Clifford Lee launched the eighth-annual Run 4 Wishes run in Charlottetown today.

Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee is asking Charlottetown residents to support the captain and crew of the HMCS Queen Charlotte as they launched their eighth-annual Run 4 Wishes fundraiser today. Over the next three days, 25 fit and determined men and women from our Navy will run the Island tip-to-tip. They hope, with the generosity of Islanders, to raise funds to help grant the wish of critically ill Island children. In 2009, HMCS Charlottetown was able to generate over $40,000 to grant the wishes of Island Children. For a schedule and to learn more check out the http://peirun4wishes.net (<--that URL is no longer good) or call the Children's Wish Foundation - Prince Edward Island chapter at 566-5526 or 1-800-267-9474.

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Annual HMCS Charlottetown run for Children's Wish launches today

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HMCS Charlottetown run for wishes

Doug Gallant

Twenty-five men and women of HMCS Charlottetown will exchange their uniforms for running gear today as they begin their eighth annual run across P.E.I. to raise funds for the Children's Wish Foundation.

Details of the 2010 Run 4 Wishes were unveiled at a news conference in Charlottetown by Sub-Lt. J.D. Forbes.

Forbes told reporters the team hopes to raise in the vicinity of $40,000 for the foundation, which grants wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses.

Since the run's inception, members of the ship's run team have raised $170,000, he indicated.

Forbes said achieving the team's goal will only be possible with the support of the team's sponsors and the general public.

Those sponsors include Sobeys, which hosts a series of fundraising barbecues, and the Royal Canadian Legion, which raises funds in a number of ways under the direction of Tona Halliwell, special events chair for Legion Branch No. 1 in Charlottetown.

The run begins this morning in North Cape and will continue for 100 kilometres, stopping for the day in Summerside.

Leg 2 of the relay begins Wednesday in East Point and will take the team 69 kilometres to Montague.

Wood Islands will be the starting point for the third leg of the run on Thursday.

Team members will cover a distance of 68 kilometres before stopping for the day in West Royalty.

Runners will start the fourth leg of the run in Georgetown Friday morning and will cover 56 kilometres of highway before stopping in Stratford.

The final leg of the run will begin in Summerside Saturday morning and conclude in Charlottetown, some 76 kilometres away.

Each day the race will conclude at one of P.E.I.'s five Sobeys grocery stores.

Sobeys has been a sponsor of the run for a number of years and will host a barbecue each day of the five-day run.

Sobeys donates 100 per cent of the proceeds from the barbecues to the foundation.

Members of the run team have been training for the event since February, running for an hour a day three to four times a week.

A spokesman for the ship told reporters the Run 4 Wishes event is near and dear to the crew.

Speaking at Monday's news conference, Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee applauded the crew of the city's namesake ship for their ongoing support of the Children's Wish Foundation and for the work they do throughout the year at home in Canada and on deployment around the world.

Lee said the city was proud to be associated with the men and women who serve on the ship and described them as good ambassadors for Charlottetown.

Children's Wish Foundation spokeswoman Beth Gauthier said the foundation was honoured to be the charity of choice for HMCS Charlottetown.

She expressed the foundation's appreciation for the ship's continuing support, noting the money raised through the run has helped the foundation make the wishes of a number of Island children come true.

The foundations is currently working on eight wishes and within the last number of weeks has received three others.

Gauthier noted that in addition to the run, members of HMCS Charlottetown's crew have travelled to Charlottetown to assist the foundation on several other projects.

"We have a very special relationship with HMCS Charlottetown ... they are very open and caring for our kids," Gauthier said.

Run 4 Wishes raises almost $38,000

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Run 4 Wishes raises almost $38,000

BY NANCY MACPHEE
Transcontinental Media

SUMMERSIDE – Thanks to the generosity of Islanders, four P.E.I. youngsters will each have their wish granted.
During last week’s Run 4 Wishes, the HMCS Charlottetown crew collected, at last count, close to $38,000 for P.E.I.’s chapter of the Children’s Wish Foundation.
“My heart has never felt so proud in my life to be part of P.E.I.,” said Canadian Navy sub lieutenant Joe Chaput, the event’s fundraising chair. “I personally felt I was welcomed into every community that we went in to.”
Run 4 Wishes is a five-day tip-to-tip run that helps fundraise to grant wishes to children battling serious or terminal illnesses.
The event, organized the past seven years by crew of HMCS Charlottetown who run each leg, has now collected more than $160,000 —the equivalent of 16 wishes — for the charity.
Island Sobeys this year alone fundraised $13,000 through barbecues, in-store events and the at-the-cash top-up option.
“These people did so much for us,” said Chaput. “It was incredible.”
Weather played a huge part in the event’s success this year. Temperatures were warm and skies sunny throughout most of the week.
“It brought out the sponsorship that we were looking for,” said Chaput. “Mind you it made it somewhat difficult for the team, getting 30 plus degree temperatures plus high humidity.”
But the 21 crew members of the HMCS Charlottetown who ran the route pushed through heat, blistered feet and aching muscles to reach their goal.
“Even though they were sore and achy . . . every single one of these guys and girls had a smile on their face,” said Chaput.
He was honoured to meet some the Children’s Wish kids and their families.
“My personal highlight had to be the helicopter ride we were able to get for the Wish kids. To see this one little boy, Dixon, before he was very, very nervous. He was very shy,” added Chaput. “But when we stepped off that helicopter after 30 minutes the self-confidence this little boy had was absolutely incredible.”

Run 4 Wishes closes in on midway point

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Run 4 Wishes closes in on midway point

TERESA WRIGHT
The Guardian

The sun has been beating down and the rolling hills have been hard on aching joints, but the team of sailors running their marathon fundraiser this week are all smiles.
The 23 crew members from the HMCS Charlottetown finished their second day of running Wednesday arriving in Montague in mid-afternoon.
They are almost midway through their seventh Run 4 Wishes campaign, in which the crew runs from one tip of P.E.I. to the other to raise money for the Children’s Wish Foundation.
So far, the team has run approximately 169 kilometres, from North Cape to Summerside on Tuesday and from East Point to Montague Wednesday. But they’re not done yet.
The crew will be up bright and early this morning and on the road again, starting today in Wood Islands, through Pinette, Orwell Corner, Vernon Bridge and Hazelbrook. They will then run across the Hillsborough Bridge and straight through and finishing for the day in West Royalty.
As they pass through each little village, town and community, Islanders have been coming out by the dozen to honk their horns, wave Canadian flags and cheer on the team.
They have also been generous to the fundraiser, dropping money into the oversized boot the sailors use to collect money.
Experiencing this level of support has made the HMCS team ‘extremely proud,’ said Navy Sub-Lieutenant Joe Chaput.
“When they’re running, people are waving to them on the road, cars are stopping, they’re coming up to them and giving them money while they’re on the road and it’s just amazing,” he said.
The hot, sunny days have been great for getting Islanders out to cheer them on, but it’s meant scorching hot temperatures for the team as they run along the pavement. It’s grueling and often painful, but this has not dampened the team’s spirit or energy, Chaput said.
“They’re tired and hot and sweaty and every single step just hurts but you just keep on going but they’re still motivated,” he said.
“You just look at these guys and they’re just beaming. You can tell that their sore but their smiles are still there.”
Each team member takes turns running a 30-minute shift. Then they get on the support bus where they can rest up for the next shift. At the end of the day, the ship’s medic, Warrant Officer Mary Landry, pops their blisters, bandages their joints and administers Tylenol. Then they wake up the next morning and do it all again.
“It’s just absolutely amazing — that’s the word for it, amazing. It just has to be.”
On Thursday, the Sea King helicopters will arrive on P.E.I. to bring awareness to the Run 4 Wishes. It will take up some Children’s Wish families and media and later in the evening will land in the Charlottetown racetrack.

Run4Wishes underway

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Run4Wishes underway

The Journal Pioneer

The HMCS Charlottetown’s seventh annual Run4Wishes in aid of the Children’s Wish Foundation left North Cape Tuesday and arrived in Alberton just before noon. The relay team expects to be at the Summerside Sobeys by 5:30 p.m. They hope to cover the entire province in four days, raising money for their ship’s charity along the way.
Eric McCarthy/Journal Pioneer

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Run4Wishes crew takes to Island roads

The Journal Pioneer

ALBERTON – Dylan Allain from St. Louis is the most veteran of the runners participating in the HMCS Charlottetown’s seventh annual Run4Wishes and he is not even a crew member.
This is the Grade 6 St. Louis Elementary School student’s fourth year of running with the crew.
“I run, and I hop on the bus,” he said, explaining he takes his turn along the course.
The four-day run started yesterday in North Cape.
Allain and his school are also significant contributors to the ship’s cause, the Children’s Wish Foundation. The school raised $727 for the cause and he and his family organized fundraisers that brought in another $500.
Crewmembers held fundraisers onboard the ship and they are accepting donations along the route.
There are 23 crewmembers participating in the relay run this year but only Mary Landry is a returning runner. The ship’s medic is on her third run for the cause.
The crew has been training for months for this marathon that will see them cover 50 to 100 kilometres a day.
Landry said the runners are receiving lots of encouragement and refreshment along the route, which came in handy on a hot Tuesday.
Last year, the team raised over $67,000 on the Island - the single largest amount ever raised by the Run4Wishes.