Meeker, Milestones

Meeker’s Lisa Belmonte is truly a marathon woman

Lisa Belmonte’s idea of fun is running long distances — 26.2 miles, to be exact.
Belmonte runs marathons. She ran the Portland Marathon on Oct. 5, finishing 11th out of 639 in the women’s 35-39 age division and 44th overall out of 3,900 women. And, most importantly, her time qualified her to run in the Boston Marathon on April 20, where she will be one of 25,000 runners.
“That was my goal,” the Meeker runner…