Bette Clark, a top age-group athlete, offers support to people going through treatment and forges new connections in the running community.
Bette Clark came to running late—she was 48—but she was a natural. Long distances, half marathons, marathons, trail running. She took to it all, and she loved running with the group she discovered, the Van Cortlandt Track Club in the Bronx, New York.
“When I started running with other people who were training for all these races, I found I really liked the competition—the camaraderie,” she says. “I like the whole running scene. I just was really hooked quickly.”
In November 2005, she ran her first marathon—New York City—at age 50, and she qualified for Boston. Shortly after, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her first question to her oncologist: “Will I be able to run Boston in April?” Clark says. “They looked at me like I was nuts.”
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