Harvey Lewis celebrates 100th marathon at special place, the Flying Pig

Harvey Lewis toed his first starting line at the Revco Cleveland Marathon in April 1991. He was just 15 years old. "I was not a very accomplished runner at all.

I would finish more toward the back. I told my team I was going to run this marathon and they said, 'No way, Harvey. There's no way you're going to be able to do that.

'" Lewis recalled. He set out at eight-minute pace, a speed at which he could regularly run seven or eight miles. But around mile 10, he felt like he was going to die, so he switched to intervals of running and walking, finishing his first marathon in just over five hours.

It took Lewis five years to break the five-hour mark, but he was hooked by the power of perseverance and seeing his goal through. Lewis, one of 64 people who have run every Flying Pig Marathon in its 28-year history, will complete his 100th 26. 2-mile race this weekend.