PATH TO ACHIEVEMENT

Joanie Wilson was 58 years old and had recently been diagnosed with a bone disease when she heard then-10TV anchor Andrea Cambern talking about the inaugural Capital City Half Marathon.

“I decided right then and there that I was not going to let (osteoporosis) get to me,” Wilson recalled. “So, I called my twin sister and we decided to sign up, even if we had to crawl across the finish line.

“The race was only three weeks away and we really had no training, but we did it and I have been doing it every year since.”

Wilson, 78, will cross the finish line at the OhioHealth Capital City Half Marathon for the 20th straight year when she finishes the Half Marathon holding hands with her granddaughter, Liza Cooper, 24 and grandson, Jaxon Wilson, 19.

“I had never run anything before Cap City and I really haven’t run anything since,” Wilson said. “I was hooked on Cap City after the first year and I figured I might as well keep it up. It was good for me.”