Off Their Rockers

 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’.