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As fighting neared, the family moved from place to place, settling each time in a flimsy tent only to be forced to pack up and flee again.

Tracey Johnson, a 69-year-old healthcare professional seeking redemption after she quit at mile 20 last year, felt feverish in the medical tent.

“We set him up with a heated tent, a selection of sandwiches and nibbles and some excellent beverages, and then he attended a board meeting remotely,” McCallum says.

And over the course of the contest, enough players kept filing into the sideline blue medical tent that the team doctors could have used a waiting room.

“If you don’t want to live on a park bench, I suggest you get a tent,” he replied.