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Barbara Schmidt Millar Celebration of Life Women’s Triathlon

A mile-and-a-half-run to the hospital, a mile-and-a-half walk back. That’s how Celien Thorne trained for the 5K race Sunday at Cascade Shores, part of the Barbara Schmidt Millar Celebration of Life Women’s Triathlon: She ran to her breast-cancer treatments. “My goal was to run to every treatment,” Thorne said. “Screw cancer. I want to show women that we can beat it.” Thorne finished third, which was a bonus to simply being able to compete. “I’m thankful and grateful to be here right now,” said the Grass Valley mother-of-four. “There were times when I could barely walk from my couch to …

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