When Willem Sagriff steps on the Point Municipal Park track in Sydenham on October 3, 2026, there will be no starting gun, no competitors and no medal waiting at the finish line. Instead, what will drive him forward, lap after lap, is something far more powerful.
The 27-year-old Kingstonian will be focused on one goal: running 100 kilometres to raise funds through University Hospitals Kingston Foundation for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, a place that forever changed the way he sees gratitude, vulnerability and resilience. He expects his fundraising run to take between 11 and 12 hours.
Willem was inspired to help after he and his wife welcomed their daughter in June 2025.
“Our room was just past the NICU, and I had a lot of time to sit there and think about how lucky we were that our baby was born healthy,” Willem recalled.
This planted the seed for what would become an extraordinary physical and mental challenge.
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“This is about supporting the tiniest members of our community,” Willem shared, “and the teams that care for them.”