Source:ABC The L.A. Marathon races into the Southland on Sunday, and for Santa Monica’s Julie Weiss, it will be her last marathon in a streak of 52 races in 52 weeks.”My dad became my biggest fan when I started running marathons,” she said. “He was just so overjoyed when I started running and would tell all his friends about all these marathons that I’m running.”Her father passed away just over two years ago of pancreatic cancer, a disease that has less than a 5 percent survival rate.
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