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Global Running Day Marks Start of Marathon Season at Mercy Home
June 26, 2025 • A little rain didn’t stop our Mercy Home Heroes from celebrating Global Running Day and the start of the 2025...
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Global Running Day Kicks off Marathon Season
June 18, 2024 • Our Mercy Home Heroes kicked off the 2024 running season on Global Running Day in June with an informal 5K...
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Heroic Feet—Mercy Home Heroes Go the Distance for Kids
November 6, 2023 • Last month, 40,000 athletes took to the streets in the 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Among them were 365...
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5 Things To Do Before Marathon day
September 28, 2023 • The marathon is just a day away. You’ve overcome injuries, long runs, and intense training in all kinds of weather....
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Home Run—Father-Son Duo Bonds Over Baseball and Marathon Goal
August 29, 2023 • When Scott Stombaugh ran the Race to Wrigley 5K with his five-year-old son in 2013, he couldn’t imagine that one...
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A Hero’s Nightmare Vacation Enlightens His Value on Life
July 17, 2023 • It was supposed to be a beautiful family vacation in Lake Tahoe for the Loch family. Instead, it turned into...
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Global Running Day Celebrates Friendships, Fundraising and a Full Heroes Team
June 21, 2023 • When Mary Connolly, the manager of the Mercy Home Heroes marathon program, set out to plan Global Running Day, she...
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Childhood Poverty Inspires Hero to Succeed and Give Back
May 17, 2023 • As a child, Diganta Kalita knew familial love and household scarcity in equal measure. He grew up in a small...
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A Hero’s Choice
February 13, 2023 • Odion Ailemen lived amidst the constant threat of gang violence in the ancient city of Benin in Edo State, Nigeria....
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Son’s Memory, Family’s Love Pushes Mom to Finish Line
January 19, 2023 • There was one thought that echoed in Cecelia Martinez’s mind early on during the 2019 Bank of America Chicago Marathon:...