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"I search my inner being to see if there is anything left. I reach deep and find it and my legs move faster"
 
  Monica Chokly
  ING Marathon,
  Ottawa, Ontario
  June 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 
Fitness. I needed fitness. Things were getting a little thick around the middle. “Try running”, a dear friend told me, “it costs nothing but a pair of sneakers.” I had sneakers, I could do this. A slow start at first, but before I knew it, the sport had me hooked.

But what about the dollar cost? I look back at my second marathon, just run a few days ago. I did a bit of tallying.

.............Continued in the Canadian Marathon Stories Book

 

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