Why members of London’s Indigenous Running Club say running is for everybody – CBC

‘Running is for everybody, it doesn’t matter your size, your shape,’ says club founder

July 18, 2018

Nancy Doxtator, 52, has a pretty lofty goal: to run a full marathon by the time she turns 60.

The grandmother from Oneida Nation of the Thames is already off to a good start. She does a five-kilometre run three times a week and is training for a half-marathon this fall.

Just a few years ago, all of that would have seemed out of reach for Doxtator, a former smoker. That changed in 2016, when she quit smoking and joined the newly-formed Indigenous Running Club, run out of the N’Amerind Friendship Centre.

“When I first started, I couldn’t even jog one minute without being out of breath,” said Doxtator, as she cooled down from a brisk 5K through Greenway Park in London.

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