WHAT DO a 100-year-old woman who rides motorcycles and a 25-year-old woman who raises money running marathons have in common beyond an adventurous spirit? They are both in today’s column, that’s what. I think you’ll like them both.
….JAIME-ALEXIS Fowler is a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one thing history teaches us is that a marathon is 26 miles long, and 26 miles is a long way, especially if it’s your first marathon, and it’s the Big Sur Marathon out in California on the Monterrey Peninsula, a race famous for its grueling hills.
But Fowler, 25, was on a mission back in April, when she ran Big Sur, and she was still on a mission last weekend, when she ran the Chicago Marathon. In each case she was running to raise money for causes of considerable personal importance.