Mark Sutcliffe
Mark is the author of Why I Run: The remarkable journey of the ordinary runner, Canada's Magnificent Marathon and Big Joe and the Return of Football. A runner since 1998, he ran his first half-marathon in 2003 and his first marathon in 2004. He has completed over 20 marathons and has raised more than $100,000 for local and national charities through running and other fundraising efforts.
Mark is the founder of iRun, Canada's most popular running magazine and website. He hosts iRun's weekly radio show and podcast.
Mark is also an accomplished print, radio and television journalist. He writes two columns per week in the local daily newspaper, hosts the Chat Room, a top-rated morning talk show on Ottawa's news-talk radio station; a national Sunday morning political television show; and a local issues program airing three times a week.
He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Ginny, and their children, Erica, Jack and Kate.
“But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.”