Candi Higley

OREM -- While watching the New York Marathon in 1991, a friend told him he was too old and fat to run a marathon. Greg Pratt, a 71-year-old Orem resident, took that as a challenge. He began running the next day.

He never thought that running marathons would get him to where he is today -- happily married, healthy and with a unique tie to a family in New Jersey who were directly affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.