On a cool morning early this month, Patty Hung and her chunky dog, Ming, jogged under the oaks of the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail. There was nothing remarkable about the lean runner and her pup, unless you knew that Hung was in the history books.
On Monday, Hung will run her 40th Boston Marathon. She is 80.
“I’m not a great runner,” she said in the Boston accent she never lost despite more than 50 years in California. “I’m just persistent.”…