Our KNX Hero of the Week, Dr. Guillermo Rios Rios is a marathon conqueror!
Dr. Rios Rios, a 67-year-old pediatrician at St. John's Dignity Health Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, started running back in high school on the track team. Later in med school, he started running longer distances, and then he made it to the big race.
Dr. Guillermo Rios RiosDr. Guillermo Rios Rios and St John
“My first marathon was New York in November '93,” he told Heroes host Heather Jordan. “I was supposed to [do] only one marathon in my lifetime, but then I got addicted to running marathons, and probably my best year [was] when I ran 52 marathons in one year."
Dr. Guillermo Rios Rios and St Johns Dignity Health Regional Medical Center
He said he averages around 10 to 20 marathons a year. So far, he’s run 360 marathons over the last 33 years, and he plans to make it to 369 by the end of December.
“My goal is probably [to] complete 500 marathons,” he said. “I have 140 more to go.”
Dr. Guillermo Rios Rios and St John
While he’s run in 24 states and six countries, Dr. Rios Rios said he never gets bored of it.
“When I run, the ocean, the mountains, that doesn't get boring at all,” he said. “It's nice.
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