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NOVEMBER 1, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 132
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Runner laments lack of attention on trek that took him across Canada and back Despite having the finish line in sight on Friday, he hadn’t yet thought about post-run life. “I’m still taking it one day at a time, even though it’s the last day,” Dostaler told KTW from Nanaimo, before setting out. “It’s another run but, at the same time, you’re trying to keep your head in the game. You know it’s the end, but you don’t want to say it. Everything that you worked towards is about to end in 30-something hours. “It’s also scary and daunting for me because the last three years I knew exactly what I was doing. Tomorrow, I don’t.”
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dward “Fast Eddy” Dostaler wasn’t sure what to expect when he reached Clover Point on Vancouver Island Saturday afternoon. Just hours before beginning the final stretch in his 27,000-kilometre, 608-day journey, Dostaler was gearing up for one final 24-hour run when he spoke to KTW on Friday, the final leg of his There and Back Run spanning the roughly 117 kilometres from Nanaimo to Victoria. The 28-year-old finished running across Canada and back on Saturday, an effort to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, finishing at the spot his run began in March 2015. It has been a tumultuous two years for the Kamloops
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native. There have been highs and lows. He has been challenged, both mentally and physical-
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ly, more than he expected. The fundraising hasn’t gone as he hoped, but he feels he has inspired.
He admits that, at times, his personality may have rubbed people the wrong way. He has no regrets
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about breaking the run into chunks, rather than doing it in one straight shot across the country and back.
Dostaler set out on what he dubbed the There and Back Journey Across Canada in March of 2015. By that time, the then 26-year-old had already spent roughly a year planning the endeavour. See ‘Fast Eddy’, A22
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