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    You're Never too old to Run - Marla Sweeney and Amelia Boone ep 185

    • Oct 6, 2018
    • Oct 6, 2018 Updated Oct 12, 2018
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    At age 70 she tried her first Spartan Race. At seventy two years old, 16.7 miles, five thousand feet of climbing at nearly two miles above sea level, she crossed the Lake Tahoe Spartan Race Championship finish line. For Marla Sweeney, this was the twenty third time in almost as many months of crossing that line.

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