Couple who met at 2018 Pittsburgh Marathon goes on course after wife’s cancer treatment – LocalNews8.com

By Ava Rash

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PITTSBURGH (WTAE) – Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reporter Ava Rash is on Liberty Avenue for the start of the Pittsburgh Marathon.

There we met Jennifer and Brian Woodyard, a couple who met in 2018 during the marathon.

Brian, who competes in the handbike division, said the pair met when he arrived late to the marathon and wasn’t sure who he would be paired with. Then Brian met Jennifer.

According to Brian, the couple talked every mile of the race and would later get married.

In 2023, things changed for the now married couple.

Jennifer told us she was diagnosed with stage 4 bile duct cancer.

“We weren’t sure what would happen from that point on, but nine, 10 months later, here we are again at the marathon showing what you can do,” Jennifer said.

Jennifer said she is now off chemotherapy and her tumors are shrinking.

Brian showed off his version of a Pittsburgh Marathon shirt. The shirt features the marathon logo with ‘Jen’s Treatment Marathon’. The couple tells us the shirt was worn every time Jennifer went for treatment.

“We call this our anniversary marathon, but this year we’re calling this our celebration of life marathon,” said Brian Woodyard.

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