You have to be impressed with anyone that trains for and runs a marathon. For that person to have lost a tremendous amount of weight and accomplish that feat is still more amazing. To do this the media watching and having the pressure of being a celebrity is truly remarkable I think. Valerie Bertinelli, just days before turning 50 even is training for and is planning on running the Boston Marathon. She is raising money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Bertinelli complete the Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half-Marathon this past summer. Pretty remarkable given that she had just recently lost 50 pounds. She gradually increased her running miles, worked on her core muscles and did upper body weight lifting as well. All this to get in shape and also to have the strength to run. Prior to running the event she posed on the cover of People magazine in a bikini (seen below) which shows what all her hard work accomplished.
