More than 39 in years past, Linda Ballard would check out McKinley Park in Chicago to operate daily, particularly after she spotted a good-looking athlete. She had no indisputable fact that the complete stranger has also been timing their runs from inside the hopes of thumping into the lady. Running changed into matchmaking as well as the set married in 1982 and had a daughter. Tiny performed Linda and James “Jim” Ballard know that her meet-cute would trigger them completing 100 marathons along — with No. 100 being Sunday’s lender of America Chicago race.

“I would get a proven way and Jim might be running another means,” Linda Ballard, 61, of Chandler, Arizona, told TODAY. “We began working with each other.”

While they began operating maintain fit, Linda Ballard enrolled in the Honolulu Marathon. After she complete, Jim Ballard said he’d in addition like to operate one and so they going getting into marathons collectively.

Read More