Riley Senft

Riley Senft is a Canadian anesthesiologist, prostate cancer activist and ultramarathon athlete, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1979. On 7 May 2011 he set out from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, to run about 6,600 kilometres across the ten provinces to Vancouver, a campaign he called Step Into Action, in the footsteps of Terry Fox. He ran up to 70 kilometres a day, six days a week, and finished after 153 days on 6 October 2011 at the Olympic Cauldron in Jack Poole Plaza. By October 2013 the campaign had raised more than 838,000 Canadian dollars for prostate cancer research. He received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 and gave a TEDx talk about the run.