Allirra Jennings couldn’t move more than 50 metres when she took up running, but inspired by a family tragedy, she’s now making world history.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are almost four times more likely than non-Indigenous Australians to have diabetes or pre-diabetes, according to the charity Diabetes Australia. “Moving your body is really important in terms of blood sugar control, but also our bodies feel great when we move and we can do things.”“I could not run … I could only shuffle 50 metres at a time, and I just kept on doing that over and over,” she says.Allirra Jennings on her daily run in Darwin.The mother of four runs a small cabinet-making business called Closet Gangster with her husband and says she pays herself $10 for every hour of training she puts in on the track.
When she runs the Boston Marathon in April along with 30,000 people, she will make history as the first Aboriginal woman to have run all six of what are known as the world’s major marathons.
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