Dottie Dorion was in her 40s, living in Jacksonville's Deerwood community, when she, a once-avid tennis player, tired of the sport and all its social obligations. She was looking for a new challenge, another way to test herself — a hankering that's dominated her life, even now, at 90 years old.
She found what she was looking for when her son Mark, who was running track in high school, suggested she run with him around a nearby lake. She gave it a try, but it was brutal. She found herself doubled over, trying to catch her breath, every few hundred yards. But she vowed that a year from then, she would run a marathon.
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