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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-story-emilys-race-for-research/">Her Story: Emily’s Race for Research</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted September 24, 2007 at 01:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">The following post was submitted by Emily Fischer.&nbsp; Emily is blogging about her quest to finish her first marathon (Chicago), and her determination to raise money for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (her pledge page can be found by clicking here.) Emily’s race for research, and, ultimately a cure, was propelled by the death of her young cousin, Sam, from mitochondrial disease; Sammy’s older brother, Zach, continues to fight it everyday of his life.&nbsp; For the next few months, we will follow along with Emily as she discovers both the energetic highs and the crushing lows of running.&nbsp; Emily is a gifted writer and thinker from Wisconsin – this is her story. My birthday was last week.&nbsp; I am now the seasoned and very well-adjusted age of twenty-eight.&nbsp; Training has rewarded me…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-story-emilys-race-for-research/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-story-emilys-race-for-research/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-story-emilys-race-for-research/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/her-story-emilys-race-for-research/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-adventure/">her-adventure</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/training-programs/">training-programs</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-story/">her-story</a><br /><br /> </P>