Dr. Lepage’s clinic, LePage Chiropractic Centre will also be participating in raising funds. A week prior to the marathon, the general public can come and receive a complete examination, including X-rays, in exchange for a $ 30 donation. (Those who are willing can also buy “marathon kilometres" for a chance to win one of three prizes.)

Dr. Lepage’s target time for the marathon is under four hours fifteen minutes. “I obviously want to do at least better than my first marathon. I completed one in Montreal in 2005 in four hours fifteen minutes and I believe that I will be able to be a little faster this time.”

For each of the five members of Dr. Lepage’s family, running is part of everyday life. It is a means of transportation, and the family also takes part in races organized by the Endurance Running Circuit.

Leucan Monteregie

Leucan is a non-profit organization that is well-known in Quebec. Leucan is an association whose mission is to help cancer-stricken children and their families believe in a brighter future.

Leucan looks after its families at each phase of the illness by providing specific and adapted services. Leucan is present in all walks of family life whether it be at the hospital, at home, at school, in social life or in the public eye, by means of financial assistance, welcome, emotional assistance and support services, information, hosting and support in playrooms, massage therapy at the hospital and in the region, socio-recreational activities, support groups, school life, end-of-life and bereavement follow-up services.

The Lepage family is particularly sensitive to this cause, Dr. Lepage’s wife, Genevieve, being a leukemia survivor herself.  Genevieve benefited from the services of this organization when she was 14 years old.

“It is of course more motivating to raise funds for an organization that we know, and even more for one from which we received services,” points out the marathoner.