Here’s a Snapple-cap style fact. It takes the same time (roughly 44 hours) to drive to Ottawa, Ontario from Stockton, California as it does to make the same trek from Coquitlam, British Columbia.
Saira Purhar, one country-crossing distance runner for the University of the Pacific, is on track to make a name for herself in all three.
Purhar, a native of Coquitlam, and a member of the Tigers’ cross country and track and field teams, recently took fifth in the women’s 5,000 meter race in the U20 division of the Canadian Track and Field Championships.
The soon-to-be sophomore recorded a time of 18 minutes, 39.