Lakewood resident Angela Turnage was training to run the Marine Corps Marathon when she learned she had cancer.
Paris Sunio, Elizabeth Howard and Tom Weinberg don Team Angela T-shirts in honor of teammate Angela Turnage who is undergoing chemotherapy
A retired teacher and a candid and skilled writer, Angela has documented her diagnosis and treatment experiences on her blog, Mind Margins. (Her husband Michael is responsible for the fabulous photos and video.) She also was featured in a September 2013 Dallas Morning News story.
The first round of chemotherapy last summer supplied ample evidence that she would not in fact be running marathons by October, but fellow members of the White Rock Running Co-op—Elizabeth Howard, Paris Sunio and Tom Weinberg—made the trip to D.C., trekked the marathon course and took Angela with them, in spirit at least, sporting “Team Angela” T-shirts.
You might recognize Paris Sunio’s name—he appeared on the pages of the Lake Highlands Advocate at this time last year after an acute infection hospitalized, incapacitated and nearly killed him mere months before he went and ran the full 26.2 miles at the 2012 Chicago Marathon. Paris was on track to finish the Marine Corps Marathon last weekend in less than four hours, but dropped out near the end due to a nagging calf injury. He is not sad about it. “I was there for Angela anyway,” he says.
