Aggie Armstrong | Contemporary Mixed Media Artist

yesterday felt like a fever dream, but these photos and clips prove I actually ran the Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon.
i’d say the medal is proof enough, but I also have approximately 147 photos and shaky vids, so you’ll be seeing those.

March 2026 completely levelled me. DECIMATED. and i was already trying to find my footing from a rough couple of years. that month, we lost Patrick, and i found myself facing the same heartbreak and despair i’d felt losing my best friend Amy years before.

losing Patrick, made me look back on my friendship and adventures with Amy. i found a couple of photos of us and the last 5K we ran together. that’s where the idea of a half marathon came from. and the TCS Toronto Marathon has a charity component that gave this idea legs. i wanted to take on something that would honour them both and support CAMH, and apparently a 5K run needed a rather substantial extension, so why not make it 21.1K instead?

so, five and a half months before race day, I signed up for the half marathon to raise $1,000 for CAMH in their memory. 
grief leaves you wondering wtf to do with yourself, and this gave me somewhere to put some of it.
training was a fucking feat in itself. being Type A, Enneagram 3 and an ENFJ meant I was going to see it through, but none of those personality assessments mentioned how much of my life would now revolve around planning a run.

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