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Running Marathons at 88

Betty Jean McHugh only started marathon running in her mid-fifties. She holds multiple age group world records for the distance and, every year at the Honolulu Marathon, races alongside members of her family. Now 88, she's finished more than twenty marathons. Will she ever stop?

(IMAGE: Betty Jean McHugh sets her half-marathon world record in Vancouver. Photo: Frank Stebner)

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