Good Golly, It's Molly

Today we had an 85-year-old man on our show who’s going to be running in Milwaukee’s Lakefront Marathon this Sunday.  I’m not sure what’s more impressive — that he’s 85 and running 26.2 miles, probably without stopping or that it’s the 100th time he’s run a marathon.  He told me he started running when he was in his 60’s because his company made him.  Apparently they started a health campaign in the workplace and they needed someone over the age of 50 to join their training team.  Since he was 60, he decided to volunteer.  However, no one made him run a marathon.  And, no one told him he had to do it 100 times — and keep on doing it well into his 80’s!  I ran a marathon about 10 years ago.  That was before I had kids and I had time to do all the training involved in running the race.  It’s grueling to train for a marathon.  I was truly inspired today to meet someone who’s running marathons on such a routine basis.  One year he ran something like 16 marathons!  While he runs, he says he does a lot of thinking — and even works out problems in his mind.  The best part of all is that he’s decided he’ll keep running marathons as long as he’s able.  Now that’s perserverence!