James Keivom for The New York Times
Mina Guli demurs when someone has the audacity to call her a runner.
“I feel like I’m not an athlete,” she said via Skype from a hotel room in Shanghai. “A runner? I’m not that, either.”
She had just run a marathon that day, and was about to run another one the next day, then another the day after that, and after that. Her goal: to run 100 marathons in 100 days to raise awareness of global water issues.
These are not official marathons, of course, but 26.