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| 7/9/2009 11:30:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article |
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Kevin Kline, who will be running the Leadville Marathon this weekend, is shown with a young cancer patient. He is preparing for a 500-mile run later this year to benefit pediatric cancer patients. |
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Marathon here is 'training'
Kevin Kline, Houston morning radio host on The New 93Q, will be in Leadville this weekend running in the Trail 100 Marathon.
He considers this a training event as he prepares to run Strides Across Texas, a nearly 500-mile, 13-day solo ultramarathon across Texas, benefitting Texas Children's Cancer Center. Beginning in Dallas on Dec. 20, 2009, Kline will run up to 39 miles daily, braving the wind, rain, cold and hills through Austin and San Antonio, ending his journey in Houston on the steps of Texas Children's Hospital on Jan. 1, 2010. Kline hopes his effort will raise $500,000 for Texas Children's Cancer Center.
Kline is the president and founder of Snowdrop Foundation, which supports Texas Children's Cancer Center's cutting edge work in pediatric cancer research, provides twice annual weekend excursions for patients, and awards college scholarships to pediatric cancer patients and childhood cancer survivors.
Inspired by the great courage and strength of pediatric cancer patients, Kline has been training since January with his coach, Tim Neckar.
Kline's wife, Trish, said that Neckar has finished this marathon in under six hours and he told her husband that he will "cry for his mama."
Her husband, she said, considers
the Leadville Marathon the second hardest marathon in America.
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