Making kids marathon runners
Thursday, September 23, 2004
AUSTIN -- Ask 7-year-old John Simmons if he can run a marathon, and he shyly laughs. But ask him if he can run 26.2 miles over several months and he nods yes. Simmons and thousands of other children across Texas this year will do just that, becoming Marathon Kids.
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