Life after leukemia.

My first Ottawa race Weekend, full 42.2 marathon.

Canadian Running Magazine Interview below.

2005 World Transplant Games. Me and my mid-life crisis bike .

2019 Ottawa Race weekend finish. My summer training route 25-km from my door to the next village and back, included bathroom stop and 36 meters of climbing.

2019 Toronto Waterfront Marathon race walk. 2nd place overhaul. 1st place in age group 65-69.

With Parkinsons'. Thought it was a blood clot, or stroke.

2022 Ottawa Race weekend. Collapse at the 10-km finish. Thought it was another blood clot problem.

2025. Ottawa Race weekend. Leah, my daughter did the racing for me.

May 5th, two weeks before event I spent the day in emergency with what I thought was a stroke, Five months later I was diagnosed with early stage Parkinson's

2024. Cornwall. Crashed my walker. Another total collapse. Not a stroke.

2026. Walker Racing with Parkinson’s — The Plan Going Forward.

It’s been 3 months since my Parkinson’s diagnosis, 2 years since colon cancer, 10 years since cancerous kidney tumours, 12 years since a blood clot on my intestine, 16 years since a total hip replacement, and 28 years since my bone marrow transplant for leukaemia .

It’s also been 10 years since my first full 42.2-km marathon racing a walker, 11 years since winning the Toronto Waterfront Marathon race walk (2018 & 2019), and the year I completed my one and only 100-km ultra marathon. Not forgetting my jiu-jitsu black belt in 1997 with leukaemia and, since 2001. 35,000 km of bicycle racing. The journey has reshaped how I move forward

2026. Life with Parkinson’s No more marathons. A new era. Learning to walk again.

May 24th. Ottawa Race Weekend. Run for a Reason. Two kilometres only, for now. Goal is to complete the task

I am raising funds for PIPR - Partners Investing in Parkinson's Research

Training is both indoors when needed, outdoors when weather allows, always mindful of extremes. Parkinson’s changes the rules — it doesn’t end the game. .Walker racing continues. Adjusted. Focused. Still moving forward.

Present winter training

Tim Horton’s Dome. Alexandria. Twice a week. Normally Monday and Friday. Max 4-km

Daily stretching and cardio, includes 30 push ups, Squats and balance exercises.

Staying alive. Acupuncture and physiotherapy.

2024 My custom design, no more crashes, racing Walker. Crashes were a part of my walker racing. The problems. Small wheels on big roads, potholes, and steep sidewalks. In 2024 Trionic designed and built a stable racing walker that keeps me upright and jumps over sidewalks. Now it’s about adapting and continuing — even with Parkinson’s.

Brag

2023. Three months after colon cancer surgery won a 10-km race walk by 8 minutes and 43 years

Photos courtesy of Canadian Runing magazine. World Transplant Games. Marathon photos. Jeff Poissant and Ottawa Hospital