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n 18 days, more than 15,000 runners are expected to take part in the Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon. The race, which includes marathon, halfmarathon and eight-kilometre distances, is the running event of the year for Greater Victoria. In a special four-part series launching today, the News takes a look at running in Greater Victoria, with a special emphasis on the Victoria Marathon. Today’s story focuses on Nikki Jomha, 43, and Greg Robbins, 35, two first-time marathoners. The two have been training for months in preparation for their race of a lifetime. “Nikki and Greg are unrelated, they Kevin Laird come from two different backgrounds, yet both had life-changing moments in Editorial Director 2003. For whatever reason, it took six years before those events turned them into runners and now they are better for it,” says reporter Travis Paterson, who interviewed the two runners last week. In future installments of this series, we’ll take a look at barefoot running (Sept. 21), the Victoria Marathon (Oct. 3) and the running craze in Greater Victoria (Oct. 5).
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Runners Nikki Jomha and Greg Robbins will participate in their first-ever marathon next month – the Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon on Oct. 7.
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