Cool Running: The health and fitness issue
Cool Running: The health and fitness issue
If anyone has a love that can go the distance, it's Charlottesville Marathon organizers Francesca Conte and Russ Gill. And theirs might go, oh, an extra 50 miles or so just for fun.
The couple, owners of the Charlottesville Running Company, participate in a sport few can even fathom: ultramarathons, trail runs that range from 32 to 135 miles.
Why would anyone do such a thing? For 42-year-old Gill, inspiration to compete in extreme running came in an unlikely way.
Already a cross-country runner who'd participated in multiple marathons, Gill was watching the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon on TV in 1995. The woman who'd won the race nine years in a row collapsed before the finish line, dehydrated and disoriented.
"She fell apart," he says. "She was literally crawling toward the finish."
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