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"I told him, 'I have hopes for the gold,' and I thought he would tell me to go join a mom's group or something, but he emailed me back saying he'd love to help," says Ms. Fisco.

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Ms. Fisco knew she had to get fit, but didn't just join a gym or start jogging.

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"My life was so stressful, and I was so exhausted that I overate," says Ms. Fisco, now 50.

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Heavy Lifting Lisa Fisco was a single mom of three boys working at a breakneck pace in the television industry when her health bottomed out.

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"I had always loved lifting weights," Ms. Fisco says.

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Though the financial challenges are daunting—Ms. Fisco has a couple of sponsors, but training is expensive—she has few regrets.

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The eight day of the same moneth, the Turkes hearing of those tidings, made a fire for a token in a place called le Fisco, in the maine land right against Rhodes.

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And when hee arriued at the sayd place of le Fisco, he demaunded of the Turkes wherefore they had made the token of fire.

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And it is to be noted that the 28 day of the same moneth the great Turke in person passed le Fisco a hauen in the maine land with a galley and a fust, and arriued about noone, where his army lay, the which day may be called unhappie for

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The amount of donations is "fantastic," said Alan Fisco, senior vice president of sales and marketing for The Seattle Times.

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