Diane starts part two of our episode with Alvin Richard by asking about his first time at the Boston Marathon, 19 years after he knew that he would run that marathon. Alvin tells us about some of his memories from that amazing first race. We talk about the emotions of those moments and the passion that Alvin has. We discuss how much of a tough time Alvin has when running in the heat and how that almost stopped Alvin from making the cut for Boston. There was no way Alvin would be stopped, he just went to another marathon the next week in order to qualify. Alvin was a two-time Olympic torch relay participant in Canada, we get the entire story of how Alvin was picked for this honour twice and how the entire event went down. Alvin has always kept a logbook to keep track of how many km he has run, all the way back to 1979. In 2002 Alvin had a herniated disk and had to cut back on running marathons but he also only had 10,465 km left to reach his goal of running around the equator 40,075 km. One of the craziest goals I have ever heard but certainly doable by Alvin now. Many injuries and setbacks later in 2019 Alvin had gone roughly 5500 km and still had 5300 left. That's when his resurgence happened and Alvin came roaring back. On Alvin's 60th birthday this past January, he finally realized his goal of running the equivalent of 40,075 total km, the same distance as running around the Earth's equator. Such staggering numbers I had to go back and listen to this most amazing story a third time. I believe Alvin could convince me that he can do anything he wanted. Congratulations Alvin, we are so glad to have interviewed you and one thing is for sure, you are motivated.