80-year-old athlete ‘amazed’ after walking 5,000 miles across all 50 states

RICHMOND, Va. — Growing up in Michigan, Mary DeCair was anything but an athlete.

To this day she gets subtle and not so subtle reminders of her less than sporting history.

“A former classmate had contacted me now that I’ve done the 26.2 miles, and I said she wouldn’t talk to me in high school because she was a cheerleader and I wasn’t athletic. She said, ‘Well, you used to be a nerd and now you’re a jock,'” DeCair said…

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