COVID-19, says life is getting better everyday but not enough to join his wife on a 90 km run.“First off, I’m going to say I’m not going to be running,” Mike VanNetten told 900 CHML’s Good Morning Hamilton.“My wife and a bunch of her friends from her gym are going to be doing the running.” Sarah VanNetten begins that run on Friday and it’s her way of expressing gratitude for the care her hubby received earlier this year at Hamilton General Hospital (HGH) while in an intensive care unit for close to 83 days.VanNetten has a pair of teams participating, the ‘Chicken’s HIIT Chicks’ and ‘Team Chicken’ for short.
The plan is to run from the VanNetten farm in Simcoe and relay every 5 km until they reach the General in the late afternoon.