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Patrick Leber

Patrick Leber

Longtime runner and Runner's World+ member Patrick Leber, a Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus Marathon Children's Champion fundraising while running the marathon 35 years after his last; guest on the Justa Runners podcast.

Oct 2, 2026

BruceHOST
5:07
how's your training going? Are you ready for Columbus? Yeah,
5:13
I'm good.
5:13
I think Amy even saw some posts from me.
5:17
So before we get started, yeah, I hurt my Achilles tendon pretty bad.
5:24
And I was pretty nervous and scared.
5:27
But what's interesting, I'll give you the punchline from this.
5:32
Remember, I'm going to stop at every child's tent and family tent.

14 MINS LATER

BruceHOST
19:11
What do you think about it,
3:03
Mm-hmm.
3:03
Okay.
3:04
Yeah.
3:04
Um, so, well, I have a lot of unique thoughts about the book.
3:09
[chuckles] Um, uh, I, I really liked her forward from the speech pathologist.
3:16
I thought that was very nice.
3:18
I, I liked, uh, the book opening that way.

30 MINS LATER

BruceHOST
33:19
[laughs]
BruceHOST
4:05
After 35 years, what changed your mind? What made you decide to take on the marathon again?
4:12
Yeah, that's a great question.
4:14
So I've run the half many years in a row, probably five years in a row.
4:22
I think.
4:23
And I also fundraise for the Nationwide Children's Hospital.
4:30
And annually, what they do before the actual marathon in October, one month before that, they have a what do they call it, a character breakfast for the children.
4:45
So it reminds me of the breakfast that you see down in Disney, but they hold a character breakfast for the children, the 24 children champions, I should say.
BruceHOST
7:55
It's good.
BruceHOST
5:36
All right.
5:36
Patrick, how are you today? Hey, hello everyone.
5:40
I'm doing good.
5:41
Thanks.
5:42
But I agree with both Erin and Amy.
5:45
I wasn't in a good mood reading this.
5:49
This is a disturbing book.

37 MINS LATER

43:08
I'm excited to hear about it.

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