The Abel family celebrated their late grandfather’s 99th birthday by participating in the Sun Run
Forty-three thousand three hundred runners turned out under cloudy skies Sunday for the 35th annual Vancouver Sun Run, but one runner was missing.
So three generations of his family came out in force on Sunday to walk the 2.5 K Mini Sun Run in his honour and celebrate the legacy of the senior who loved to stroll Vancouver’s city streets — especially when other people were doing it too. In 2015, at 95, Abel was the eldest participant in the Sun Run and won his age category, then repeated the feat in 2016. The former truck driver didn’t just walk the Sun Run every year, he completed daily 35-minute circuits of his Collingwood neighbourhood and touted the health benefits of walking to whoever walked with him.
“It felt really good,” said Colin, who sported one of his father’s participation medals. “He’d be thrilled.”
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