Backing into a renovation at century-old Danforth home

As has been widely reported, a three-year global pandemic with a work force suddenly moored to houses and backyards created a boon for home renovation companies and landscapers. It also helped sales of running shoes: as early as April, 2020, CNN reported that New York sidewalks were crammed with joggers, and, in June, 2021, worldathletics.org published a Nielsen study of 10 countries declaring that 13 per cent of all runners had taken up the sport in the past year.

And all of that running caused at least two Torontonians to ditch their old house altogether.