Friday, May 26, 2006
Team Mates (Part 10)
This is, as far as I know, the last post in my series introducing my Team Diabetes Canada New York City marathon 2006 mates.
24. Arlene and Mark S – Red Deer Alberta – mother and son are running the New York Marathon together as part of Team Diabetes Canada. Mark has lived with Type 1 Diabetes since age 17. He is now 22 and has recently completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at U of A. They completed the Rome Marathon (even crossed the finish line hand in hand!) on March 26. Rome was the 12th marathon for Arlene and first for Mark. Arlene has been running for over 20 years and was to do the Red Deer Marathon on May 21st.
25. Alex N. - a fit 71yr.old Can/Swede living in Creston, BC. This will be his 13th or 14th marathon (having done 6 already but with plans to run one a month between now and November!!). Guess he needed to relax after last year when he Rollerskied Across Canada. Started in Victoria BC on June 24/05 and finished October 4/05 in St. Johns NL, all in support of diabetes. His wife Nicole was support team / manager / chief cook / RV driver. Son Nick maintained the website from Chicago. It is still up if you want to find out a bit more about this super senior: www.skiacrosscanada.com. Alex is a retired Environmental Health Officer and Nicole is a semi-retired RN, Diabetes Nurse Educator.
24. Arlene and Mark S – Red Deer Alberta – mother and son are running the New York Marathon together as part of Team Diabetes Canada. Mark has lived with Type 1 Diabetes since age 17. He is now 22 and has recently completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering at U of A. They completed the Rome Marathon (even crossed the finish line hand in hand!) on March 26. Rome was the 12th marathon for Arlene and first for Mark. Arlene has been running for over 20 years and was to do the Red Deer Marathon on May 21st.
25. Alex N. - a fit 71yr.old Can/Swede living in Creston, BC. This will be his 13th or 14th marathon (having done 6 already but with plans to run one a month between now and November!!). Guess he needed to relax after last year when he Rollerskied Across Canada. Started in Victoria BC on June 24/05 and finished October 4/05 in St. Johns NL, all in support of diabetes. His wife Nicole was support team / manager / chief cook / RV driver. Son Nick maintained the website from Chicago. It is still up if you want to find out a bit more about this super senior: www.skiacrosscanada.com. Alex is a retired Environmental Health Officer and Nicole is a semi-retired RN, Diabetes Nurse Educator.
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