Kicker - A marathon a day

NICK EICHER, HOST: If you’ve ever run a marathon, you know that running one race is quite an accomplishment.

How about 104 marathons? In a row?

Jacky Hunt-Broersma did that. She ran one marathon a day for 104 days straight. And she did it on one leg!

Twenty years ago, she lost a leg to cancer and so now she runs with a prosthetic leg. Why?

BROERSMA: Just to show the world that you don’t need to have excuses, and you can achieve amazing things, even if you have a slight disability. There just is no excuse, and I want to show world that you’re stronger than what you think.

Broersma set a Guinness World Record in the process and raised nearly $70,000 to help buy prosthetic limbs for others.

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