Angela Coulombe

In 2007 Angela Coulombe had just finished running the Beach to Beacon 10K road race when, about a week later, her right knee became swollen and she started experiencing mild joint aches. Within three months, she found herself mostly immobile from the undiagnosed pain. Coulombe was eventually diagnosed with and treated for Lyme Disease. She was treated for two years and over that time slowly regained her mobility.  She also developed an idea to recover, train for, and run a marathon. Despite the massive setback, three years after her diagnosis, she ran the New York City Marathon. Now she is on a quest to run all six of the World Major Marathons to raise awareness about Lyme Disease. On September 25, 2016 she will take on her fifth World Major Marathon, Berlin, to continue to raise awareness about Lyme Disease and to raise funds for the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation’s (ILADSEF) Physician Training Program. Coulombe has already run NYC, Chicago, Boston, London will run Berlin in 2016 and plans to run Tokyo in 2017