HATLEY – The third try at running the Boston Marathon proved to be the charm for Hatley High School math teacher Rachel Fischer. The seasoned runner has completed as many as 30 half-marathons and eight marathons since 2013, and running Boston’s has been a goal for the past eight years.
She ran the Mississippi River Marathon in 2018 and the Shelby Forest Loop Marathon the following year as qualifiers for Boston, but her times were just shy of the mark of being accepted.
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