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The Shakeout Podcast: One Man’s Story of 29 Consecutive Boston Marathons

Thousands of runners will toe the line on Monday for the 123rd running on the Boston Marathon. One of those runners is Newfoundland’s Derm Holwell. The St. John’s native now lives in Ontario, but calls Boston his 3rd home. On Monday, Holwell will run his 29th consecutive Boston Marathon.

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An athlete with the Nomads Running Team and a cancer survivor, Holwell is also part of an exclusive group known as The Quarter Century Club. In this episode, he shares his remarkable stories from his nearly 3 decades of running the Boston Marathon.

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Runners start the 117th running of the Boston Marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass., Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

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