Written by: Tim Hauraney

“Okay let’s get going, I’ll buy you something to eat and drive you home,” said Chad Robertson, CEO of Zanagen Applied Cellular Science, recently to top Canadian long-distance runner Reid Coolsaet at the Runner’s Life Multisport Store in Peterborough, Ontario.

Robertson is one of Coolsaet’s sponsors, and he was on hand to speak about money and exposure–two things that are the enemy of most marathon runners. Amateur athletes around the world struggle to make a living doing what they love to do, and for Coolsaet it’s been a tough road. After graduating from the University of Guelph in 2003, he found himself working 25 hours a week at a bank while still training, believing all the while that eventually he would get his chance to turn his passion into a career.

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