How an Annual Mini Marathon focuses on preventative health in North Omaha [Video]

• It’s a very short walk that leaves a very big impact. This year’s 26.2 Step Mini Marathon moved to a part of the metro that could best benefit from it’s message.

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The Annual 26.2 Step Mini Marathon is a fun experience for participants, it might be hard to believe it was started by something not so fun.

“I started it eight years ago,” Denise Ibsen-Cole, founder 26.2 Step Mini Marathon said. “I am a marathon runner who is klutzy. I walked off a retaining wall and broke my hip.”

Ibsen-Cole turned that negative into a positive.

“It started at the cancer survivor park where those wood trellises are at and it’s about 30 steps between them,” She said. “I go, that’s gonna be my marathon.”

Her experience was the inspiration behind the mini marathon, an event put on by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine that spreads awareness about the importance of keeping up …