The first marathon was held 45 years ago, in 1979, and grew out of the P.E.I. Roadrunners running club. In my life, I've had other passions, but this running business became a passion, primarily the promotion of running," Parker Lund told CBC Radio: Mainstreet host Matt Rainnie. A group of Roadrunners then travelled to New Glasgow, N.S., in 1978 to run the Johnny Miles Marathon and meet its founder. 's first marathon — "which is pretty incredible… in a two-year span, to go from basically nothing to running a marathon and organizing a marathon."
