Sydney Morning Herald half marathon: The running group that became a million-dollar movement

By Pallavi Singhal
Updated February 11 2017 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Sophie Smith's eight-year-old son Owen says he wants to take over her half marathon group Running for Premature Babies once she retires. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Sophie Smith's eight-year-old son Owen says he wants to take over her half marathon group Running for Premature Babies once she retires. Photo: Wolter Peeters

When Sophie Smith started training for a half marathon in 2006 with her husband Ashley as a way of coping with the loss of their premature triplets, she never thought she'd be joined by 2000 runners over the next decade and end up raising $2 million for the cause.

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