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From: "Lurisia Dale"
> Was that a typo?  At that weight and height she would almost certainly be
> clinically obese and unable to run a marathon.

Nope, no typo.  She walks marathons, half-marathons, 10K's and 5K's.
However you look at it, quite an achievement.  I met her in 2001 at a
racewalking clinic I attended taught by Dave McGovern of the U.S. National
Racewalking Team.  She was the subject of a feature article in the Health &
Fitness section of last Monday's newspaper.

> I was more imagining rock climber types.  Very lean and ripped.

She's planning on tackling the wall next, but says she keeps having images
of her butt up there.

> Hm... Are they actually fat?

I don't know.  Some do look a little chubbed, but then again it's
photographs and not the person I'm actually seeing.  And body types/styles
are, in a word, genetically variable.  None that I've seen, though, are what
I would describe as "ripped" in the manner that we usually think of.

Theola