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SERVICE OF OUR STATE AND NATION, AND SERVED AS AN INSPIRATION TO FELLOW ARKANSANS.” THOUSANDS OF RUNNERS WENT ON A 26-MILE JOURNEY THROUGH SPRINGDALE THIS MORNING. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE “HOGEYE MARATHON!” 40-29’S KA’TANI GOUCH WAS AT THE FINISH LINE AND SPOKE TO ONE RUNNER, WHO MAY HAVE THE RECORD FOR MOST RACES! WELL I DON’T KNOW IF SHE HOLDS THE RECORD BUT SHE IS DEFINITELY UP THERE WITH TODAY BEING HER SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY THIRD RACE AND THE KICKER IS…SHE’S NOT EVEN RUNNING THESE MARATHONS FOR HERSELF “I love pacing” 60 YEAR OLD MARIE BARTOLETTI HAS BEEN RUNNING AS A PACER FOR 30 YEARS ” I started at Pittsburgh marathon…4 hours.” AND HER LEGS HAVE TAKEN HER ALL OVER THE WORLD “London and Austria and Africa” IN “London and Austria and Africa” IN A MARATHON A PACER IS SOMEONE WHO RUNS WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO FINISH IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME ” I got Maria and her. Her friend, and I pace him all day long” ” I talk to them and I explain to them “Five years ago, I couldn’t talk” BARTOLETTI TOLD ME SHE SUFFERED A STROKE EIGHT YEARS AGO “eight years ago on Thanksgiving Day, my boy friend saved me” —BUT SHE DIDN’T LET THAT SLOW HER DOWN “306 marathons I did since the stroke.” HER MESSAGE TO THE WORLD–PERSEVERANCE “Do you believe that anybody can do anything? Yes! Anybody!” MARIE TOLD ME SHE ACTUALLY HAS ANOTHER MARATHON NEXT WEEK IN OKLAHOMA CITY WHERE SHE WILL BE PACING PEOPL