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REGINA, Sask. — The 46th annual Terry Fox Run is back in Regina on Sunday, Sept. 20.
The director of community development at the Terry Fox Foundation for Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Carissa Robb, shares the foundation's goals for this year's run.
"We always want to do better than last year and put more money toward cancer research," says Robb.
In 2025, the Regina community run raised $62,000. Robb says they're hoping to beat that figure this year and that "every dollar counts."
Robb says there are two reasons people want to support the run. The first is that, obviously, people want to help with cancer research, but the second is "because of Terry Fox himself."
"He was an amazing young man, doing something nobody else had ever done at the time, and people respect that and they're still carrying through his wishes and holding onto his drive and his ambition," says Robb.
Zahra Ehsani, an administrative worker at the Ministry of Health in Regina, is a cancer survivor who — much like Terry Fox — lost her leg to cancer at the age of nine. Ehsani is an avid supporter of the Terry Fox Run and says Fox is a "personal hero" of hers.
"I know how hard it is walking with a prosthetic leg every day, that many kilometres, and [Fox] never ever gave up over 160 days nonstop … So I do everything I can to support him and support his hope," says Ehsani.
During Regina's Terry Fox Runs, Ehsani manages a "kids table" where she raises funds by selling informational books about Fox and invites children to participate in activities like face painting and colouring. Ehsani says that because she lost her leg to cancer as a child, she is very understanding of kids who are curious about her prosthetic leg and is open to explaining why she has one.
"Lots of them even mention, 'Oh, that's like Terry Fox's leg,'" says Ehsani.
Ehsani explained that as a child, she had an accident and broke her knee, and after two months of treatment, she was surprised to be diagnosed with bone cancer. She went through seven rounds of chemotherapy and, as a result, had to have her leg removed, but fortunately, she has been cancer-free ever since.
Ehsani hopes to see a good number of participants in Sunday's run.
"You should be so lucky these days if you don't know anybody who has cancer … everybody is affected by it," says Ehsani.
The Regina Terry Fox Run begins Sept. 20 behind the T.C. Douglas Building/MacKenzie Art Gallery at 3475 Albert St., with registration at 11 a.m.
A brief ceremony at noon and a four-kilometre walk/run around Wascana Lake will follow. The route can be shortened or extended, bicycles, rollerblades, wheelchairs and leashed dogs are welcome, and there is no entry fee, although donations are encouraged.
