NOVA | NOVA Short | Marathon Stories: Betsey

Meet Team NOVA, the unlikely runners recruited to take on the 2007 Boston Marathon. We chronicled their journey for NOVA's "Marathon Challenge," airing Tuesday, April 15 at 8pm ET/PT on PBS.

When her doctor not long ago put "moderately obese" on a health form, Betsey was outraged; she prefers to see herself as "situationally overweight." Until roughly three years ago, Betsey exercised avidly and kept her weight under control. But major surgery for a life-threatening tumor growing from her spine forced Betsey to be sedentary for six months. And this trauma was compounded by a divorce. Now the single mother of two teenage kids, Betsey hopes training for the marathon will be a turning point in her life.

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Video podcast produced by Melissa Salpietra and Susan K. Lewis. Edited by Melissa Salpietra. Narrated by Rafi Nemes. Original footage produced by Daniel McCabe and Hillary Wells. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston.

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[dustyloup]

She looks fantastic !! :-)

[groundlings123]

Good luck, Betsey! I hope you make it.

I'm sorry, but, "Realized she was suffering from a urinary tract infection.....?" Okay, then.