The Transplant Trot
Celebrate our 35th Anniversary!

This year the Canadian Transplant Association turns 35 years old! In order to help us celebrate this auspicious occasion and recognize what that means to our community, please join us this September to walk, run or bike and collectively add our kilometers together to help light the candles on our virtual birthday cake. 

Nationally, we are asking everyone to join the Transplant Trot, and join us in a virtual walk where every 1000 kilometers gained will be the equivalent to 1 birthday candle added to our cake. Over the month of September, together we hope we will walk, run or ride the 35,000 kilometers it will take to light up our cake and allow us to celebrate with our community. The Transplant Trot is an opportunity to challenge yourself physically, as the summer comes to its close at the same time allow us to pause and recognize the history of the CTA, the Games, and the many lives its touched. We celebrate the thousands of transplant recipients, the donors, donor families and all the caretakers, doctors, nurses and programs in this country that have contributed to hundreds of extra years of life, that would not otherwise have been possible without the power or organ donation.  These past 35 years of creating organ donor awareness through the power of sport and community, have been an honour and nothing short of miraculous. 

During the Trot, together, participants will move their share of 35,000 kms enjoying your favorite activities,  improving your health and fitness, while celebrating with the CTA community. For this year’s Transplant Trot we’ve set up teams, based on the organ transplanted/ donated or that of closest affiliation. We are hoping to learn a bit more about your stories and each other and bring our community together. During this same period, the CTA social media platforms will be sharing stories, so if you'd like to share more about yours, please look out for the information on how to do so.  

Instructions for participation: 
1. Register for the Transplant Trot with the button below.
2. Create or join your team. 
3. Keep track using your steps on your phone or connect using Strava app directly (see FAQs).
4. ‘Share’ from your profile page and encourage people to cheer you on by ‘buying’ virtual rewards or motivators.

Goal 1000km = 1 Birthday Candle 

From Sep 1-30 let's virtually light 35 Candles or walk, run or ride 35,000km
 
Your involvement and story is important and touches the lives of the people in our transplant community, including the National and World Transplant Games, but also the new programs we are in progress of developing, including but not limited to the membership portal, virtual online meet-ups, youth bursaries, and family forums.  THANK YOU! We hope to see you out there, virtually! Happy birthday CTA and to you our community for participating and sharing your transplant journeys with us!