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Multisport Club Athlete Profile:

Christian Belair Says Multisport Changed His Life

By Molly Kett swimming as much as he did. He
soon discovered Cornwall had much
orty-year-old Christian Belair more than he expected. “I discovered
Fstarted doing multisport that there’s the Cornwall Multisport
activities when he turned 28 and has Club and that they had 300-400
been in love with multisport ever members and I remember being
since. Belair was living in Toronto just blown away by the size of the
when he decided to make a change club and how many races they had,
in his lifestyle, which led him to and that other people were doing
move home to Cornwall and become Ironman. I didn’t even know about
an integral part of the Cornwall Ironmans until I moved to Cornwall
Multisport Club. and met a few people in the club who
“I was overweight. I was working had done it - so that’s how I actually
in an office environment and fi gured out what it was about,” says

probably weighed about 40 pounds Belair. Since then, Belair has done
more than I do now and my doctor six Ironman triathlons, including an
told me my cholesterol was pretty Ironman in Hawaii in 2013, which
high, and I had family history of he plans on doing again someday. September 19th, which is a 2K run, matter,” says Belair.
heart problems, so you know at 28 His roll at Cornwall’s Multisport followed by a 15K bike, followed Belair can’t say enough about
that scared me a bit,” says Belair. Club has grown over the last few by another 2K run. Belair says this multisport and Cornwall’s club.
Following this, Belair got years. He’s gone from being a well-organized event is very popular, “For me it was life changing,” says
involved with his office’s Terry Fox member involved in all the events, to with people from Ottawa coming to Belair. “Come and join the club, it’s

10K race and enjoyed it so much now; the treasurer of the club for the participate. It is also a lot of fun not expensive, it’s a lot of fun people,
that he ran a half marathon two last fi ve years. Belair says it’s great according to Belair. “I’m already and you’re going to benefit from it

months later. Belair quickly got the to have “a venue of similar, similarly shining up my bike for it, getting it in all aspects of your life. You’ll be
“bug” for running, which he says is active people in your hometown.” ready for the event and trash talking in better shape, you’ll have more
still his favourite sport to do to this Belair is personally excited for the some of my other competitors, all energy, life is just so much better
day. After his half marathon, Belair clubs upcoming CMC Duathlon on friendly you know, in a friendly doing multisport.”
started looking into biking, which
quickly led to him participating in

his first triathlon through work. At
this point, Belair was ready to move

away from the office lifestyle.
“Career wise I wanted to slow
things down and get away from
the rat race which wasn’t good for
my health and my stress levels, and
come back to my hometown and be
closer to friends and family,” says
Belair.

He was afraid, though, this move
to a smaller town would cause him
to lose the group of people he had
in Toronto that were willing to
participate in running, biking, and