Marva Joseph and Marie Young went from being friends at their local gym, to volunteering as run captains in the New York Road Runners Open Run program. They are now taking on the TCS Marathon as a duo.
Volunteer New York Road Runners captains Marva and Marie are running the TCS Marathon together. Michelle Charlesworth has the story.After a chance encounter at a local Brooklyn gym in 2015, Marva Joseph and Marie Young decided to become volunteer Run Captains at the newly launched New York Road Runners Open Run site at Canarsie Park in 2016."We were already into health, since we were at the gym, so then coming here and joining Open Run, this a more healthy activity for us.
The Open Run initiative is a program that hosts weekly runs and walks in neighborhood parks, free of charge."We came here and volunteered to be run captains. Some of them can't run. They came from not being runners, walkers, joggers. Some of them couldn't even walk one mile. And to see the progression over the weeks, to running even faster," Joseph said about the participants in the Open Run initiative.
Young and Joseph tackled each challenge, running side-by-side, and found their passions for running marathons. "Then we volunteered at the New York City marathon in 2017 and oh my God that was it! We were hooked," Joseph said. The duo went from running one marathon, to shooting for six. They said it has become an obsession and that they want to run the major marathons in London, Tokyo, Boston, Berlin, Chicago, and of course, New York."It's also a time where we get to discuss things and that's how our relationship got built," Joseph added.
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