Glen Way, 35 Woodbridge, ON
Occupation: Sr. Wealth Advisor, Associate Director – The Sharpe-Way Group ScotiaMcLeod
Family: Married to Katherine - my best teammate ever; domestique for my son Reid born February 2010
In my first childhood I played whatever sport was in season. In my second, I like to cycle and run as much as life allows me to.
Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying…
As Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption puts it, regardless of our circumstances we all have a choice. And as someone who has had a lifetime of blessings - good health, family, friends, education, and opportunity – there is a responsibility to help to do something, anything.
I think of cancer as a four-letter word. It doesn’t care who you are. It doesn’t care if you are rich or poor; black or white, young or old. Whether we like it or not, cancer is waging a war against all of us and we have a choice: to do something or not. To fight back or not. Simple as that.
Cancer has made this fight a personal one. Two years ago it claimed Sandra Hirlehey. Sandy was technically my Aunt, but in more practical terms, she was my second Mom. I miss her and think about her all the time. Earlier this year, a good friend and mentor Sylvie Hyndman lost a short and vicious battle of her own. To remember them is to remember two amazing spirits and having “SH2” taped to my bars will remind me that any suffering I endure while on my bike is nothing compared to what cancer can do. Cancer has also picked fights with my Dad, Grandparents, other Aunts and Uncles. It doesn’t care.
I am doing this ride because it is something I can do.
Cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental death for kids by a country mile. Those kids that do claim victory lead lives gravely different than the rest of us. Having been exposed to some of these kids and their families over the past two years has dramatically changed me. As a relatively new father I can’t help but think how I would react if thrust into similar circumstances even though the mere thought feels like a kick to the gut. I know I wouldn’t be able to get on my bicycle and ride across the country raising money and awareness for the cause…and so because I can, I will.
I am excited to do the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride as I am passionate about the cause and 100% of the money raised will go exactly where it should: to take the fight to cancer.
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” –Michelangelo
