What compelled a 60+-year-old man, who had been diagnosed previously with blockages of his heart but refused surgery, to begin running marathons? You could say his running began back in Bilgoraj, Poland.
“I call this invisible power” Simcha was known to say. What made my father run with exhilaration every day in heavy downpours, freezing temperatures and snow, eventually running races and marathons logging thousands of miles?
Interviewed by numerous magazine and newspaper reporters why Simcha ran, he would reply “because he could” and the people he l more...
