Fargo Marathon

ITS AMAZING
Kurt Philion was a longtime runner, but he had resisted pleas to join his sister in running a half-marathon.
Thirteen-plus miles was too far, he said. But sister Nikki persisted. So, he half-relented. “I will only do it if there is a good reason to,” he said.
That good reason came Dec. 2, 2006, when hometown friend Corey Rystad of Red Lake Falls, Minn., was killed in Iraq. Sgt. Rystad and another member of the Minnesota Army National Guard died when their Humvee struck an IED