Olivier Duhaime has never been a stranger to taking on hard challenges. Running his first marathon at just 18 was a gateway into endurance sport; the Gatineau native tackled events from the Ironman to ultramarathons and even a multi-day cross-province run from Quebec City to Ottawa. But a shocking cancer diagnosis in late 2021 put a pause to his endurance-sport lifestyle and presented a test of perseverance unlike any he\u2019d faced before.<\/p>\n
From training every day to barely being able to get out of bed, Olivier was faced with a mountain to climb that dwarfed even his longest trail ultras. But from a lifetime spent pushing his body to do the impossible, he knew that at rock bottom there\u2019s nowhere to go but up. And after 51 rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, he emerged from a years-long battle cancer-free.<\/p>\n
Next week, Olivier will make his long-anticipated return to a marathon starting line close to home at the Tamarack Homes Ottawa International Marathon, where he\u2019ll toe the line in support of the Ottawa Hospital Foundation<\/a> whose care helped save his life.<\/p>\n Olivier joins The Shakeout Podcast to share his journey of recovery and his return to full-intensity marathon training, and why this marathon carries extra importance as he raises awareness and funds for the system of care that gave him back his health.<\/p>\n Subscribe to The Shakeout Podcast\u00a0feed on\u00a0Apple<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or wherever you find your podcasts.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivier Duhaime has never been a stranger to taking on hard challenges. Running his first marathon at just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[238854,49,48,74184,150390,246660,20739,204213,246661],"class_list":["post-668849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-2026-ottawa-marathon","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cancer-survivor","tag-marathon-training","tag-olivier-duhaime","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-race-weekend","tag-the-shakeout-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}