"I had to run as fast as I can," Kissack said, blinking back tears. "Cancer's one of those things where you want to do something physical. If I could, I would kick it in the head."
The 10-friend team was one of the most visible in the run, cheap New era winter hats their backs sprouting wild blooms of skinny pink balloons. With this get-up, most decided to walk the course. But fitness-buff Kissack, driven by the memory of a friend who died of cancer last year, pounded the pavement.
Near the finish line, Coco Kissack and her six-month-old boxer-mix Gabee, the first dog to finish the race, waited for the rest of her teammates in Moving for Melons.
So long was the procession that by the time the last groups jogged out of the MTS Centre loading dock and onto Carlton Street, wholesale New era winter hatthe fastest runners were already dashing back down to the arena's floor. Other front-runners stopped, turned on the street corner, and waited to cheer friends, teammates or strangers left behind.
That's right: she said guys in their skivvies. Running for the third year in a row, the men in student team Supportit showed up wearing nothing but tighty-whities and pink capes. To keep their modesty, the fellows wore strategically placed signs reading simply " cheap Rockstar hatsThe Cure" and smeared themselves in a paint-like layer of pink Calomine lotion. "It's easy for us to go out like this, when some people here are breast cancer survivors," said Supportit runner Greg Boese, 22, shrugging off the early-morning chill. "We have nothing to complain about."