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Darrell Fox

Darrell Fox

Terry Fox's brother

Oct 16, 2026

24:56
Can y- can you, uh, explain to people why that was with him?
25:00
Well, what people don't recognize is how much Terry ran preparing for the Marathon of Hope.
25:04
Uh, yeah, he ran 3,339 miles during the run, but he actually ran over 5,000 Ks preparing for the Marathon of Hope.
25:13
So he knew his body and his mind more than any doctor would.
25:17
And so that's why, you know, whenever he had a [laughs] a few aches and pains and m- and blood running from his stump, you know, he said, "I went through this in, in the 5,000K that I, that I- when I was training for the Marathon of Hope.
25:30
This is nothing." And also, he compared it to what it was like going through cancer and seeing the suffering of others.
25:36
And no, they didn't have that switch.
29:52
Remind us the number and remind us what your brother started that continues today.
36:28
Has watching this footage offered any answers to you?
36:32
No, that's funny.
36:34
Very good question, Richard.
36:35
It hasn't answered.
36:36
I thought it might help me answer the question, how? How did he do this every day for 143 days in a row? No, I'm left with more questions based on the doc.
36:49
And I was there.
36:50
I witnessed it for 93 of those 143 days.
38:35
Who was an average athlete? Who was just a young guy trying to, you know, figure his way through the world? That made him such a hero because it was an extraordinary moment actions in the light of this tragedy that struck him, and he decided that he was going to move on from it, and I think that's what, you know, really resonates with me anyway.
7:39
Love that, yeah.
7:41
So my, my day job is I'm Terry's brother, right? So, you know, I live and breathe this every day of my life.
7:47
Um, but to, to have footage of Terry that I've never seen before and audio that I never heard before has been incredibly powerful, incredibly powerful.
7:59
And, uh, you know, especially the quality, having the footage digitized.
8:03
Um, and you know, I-- that's what I did in 1980.
8:06
I stood on the side of the road, and I watched my brother run, and then I watch a nation embrace him, and now I get to do it again.
8:13
[laughs] I'm doing it all over again with Run Terry Run.
9:03
... that, like, he always tells me that story every year is, you know, "I saw Terry Fox running." And, like, f-for you, Darrell, like, what do you think was the city that had the most impact for you that some-- the city that you always remembered when you were on that journey with him?
SteveHOST
1:30
For you as you were there and just being a young man, were you conscious of that and how the impact that
1:38
you were having as this was going on? Short answer, no.
1:41
No, Steve, like I was 17 years old.
1:43
So, you know, very young, naive, not aware, was in this little bubble, you know, marathon hole bubble with Terry and Doug.
1:53
That was it.
1:53
We weren't aware of what was happening outside.
1:57
I was aware of the impact Terry was having on people initially.
SteveHOST
2:53
Can you talk about that tension of being there, of all these people that are interested in what he's doing, but him never forgetting what the main thing
1:58
Daryl, what's a moment from the road that this new footage captures that you feel maybe many Canadians didn't know about Terry or the Marathon of Hope?
2:06
We all know this story.
2:07
You know, every Canadian knows about Terry Fox.
2:09
But for me, it's the details, you know, which come out in Run, Terry, Run, which haven't been, I don't think, articulated or featured in previous documentaries.
2:21
how long the days were for Terry, getting up every morning at 4.30, starting to run at 5, running a marathon, 42 kilometers, 26 miles every day, 443 days in a row.
2:33
The way the approach that Sean has gone with this documentary, you get the feeling, you're right there.
2:39
You're on the side of the road.
6:20
How do you think he endured the loneliness and the isolation of the road before, again, things kicked up for him?

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