03 nov Pair completes 100th marathon with a kiss from the finish line
Significantly more than 39 years back, Linda Ballard would check out McKinley playground in Chicago to operate each day, especially after she noticed a handsome runner. She had no proven fact that the complete stranger has also been timing his works for the hopes of bumping into this lady. Operating changed into relationships additionally the pair married in 1982 together with a daughter. Minimal did Linda and James "Jim" Ballard realize their meet-cute would produce all of them completing 100 marathons with each other — with No. 100 staying Sunday’s Bank of The united states Chicago race.
“i'd run one way and Jim is run the other means,” Linda Ballard, 61, of Chandler, Arizona, advised TODAY. “We started running along.”
While they began operating maintain fit, Linda Ballard enrolled in the Honolulu race. After she complete, Jim Ballard stated he’d also want to run one plus they started entering marathons collectively.