RIP, Grete

Thanks for posting this, osso.

She was a great runner and a great person.

Last year she was at the start line of the NYC Half Marathon and they introduced her to the crowd in between the Star Spangled Banner and the Race Instructions.
As I was running along about three miles into the race I heard two 20-somethings talking about who she was.

"I don't understand what the big deal is. " said the first one. "They said she was in nine NY marathons."
"Yeah," said the other one," I've already been in three."
I laughed out loud while trotting along next to them.
"No," I huffed," She wasn't IN nine NYC Marathons, she was in about a dozen. She WON nine NYC Marathons."

Trot, trot, trot.

"Yes" I said, " No one else ever came close to winning that many. No man and no other woman."

Joe(she was a wonder)Nation

My kid was in the Boston... And requalified... She wasn't in that was she; or natural causes???

explain?

She's part of my life. I followed running for quite a while.

I was never any kind of real runner, just a jogger.
On the other hand, I was at the early edge.
I had a bad time after hiking in Yosemite and walking around San Francisco, suddenly my feet went out.

After I got home to LA and saw the UCLA chief resident of the year, recommended by friends, new orthopedist, he checked my feet and said something about high arches, or equivalent words.
Suggested I get some shoes with arch support, such as Adidas. Well, Adidas then only had men's running shoes. I got the smallest pair. They fixed my feet, immediately.

So once I had running shoes, I tried that out. I was never a JoeNation, but I liked it.

Always keep moving, O.

Joe(always)Nation

Good plan..

What did she die of... It was not from running that race; was it... Cause of death???

She had cancer for something like six years, but declined to say more than that about it.