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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Endurance runner Lisa Smith Batchen likes going to extremes. She has run through Death Valley nine times and raced 150 miles (241 kilometres) across the Sahara Desert.
Now on the verge of her 50th birthday, she's adding altruism to athletics, along with a dash of spiritual uplift from her longtime friend, Sister Mary Beth Lloyd.
Sister act: athlete and nun team up for charity - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100419/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_fitness_running_endurance - broken link)