Nun, 60, Running “Keys 100″ in Her Habit
Source: Cammy Clark, Miami Herald -5/15/2009
Race: 100-mile marathon from Key Largo to Key West, 43 bridges.
Entrants: 65 people running solo, 265 in relay teams
Notable: Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, wearing her full-length black habit.
Resume: New Jersey native, high school track team, joined a Catholic order (Religious Teachers Fillipini) in 1967, devotes her life to helping women and children, especially orphans whose parents died of AIDS.
Sidekick: Lisa Smith-Batchen, extreme marathoner bit by a scorpion in a Sahara Desert 100 miler, ignored the pain, finished the race
Why the nun garb: “When people ask me ‘why in God’s name’ are you doing this? I can say ‘for the orphaned children’.
