GALAX, Va. (WDBJ) - Many of us can’t fathom running 100 miles. Rosie Nanette Gagnon couldn’t either, until she did it again, again and again.

The first thing she’ll tell you is running 100 miles isn’t easy. From pavement to mountainside, Nanette Gagnon conquered that distance dozens of times, 97 times and counting, to be exact.

“Not even so much it’s the running, it’s the you’re cold, you’re hypothermic, you’re vomiting, you can’t keep down any liquids, do you have too much salt or not enough salt or, you know, the weather,” explained Nanette Gagnon.

But she isn’t enduring that kind of pain for herself.

“Every time I’m out running… I feel like I’m sort of like doing what he wanted to do. That I’m kind of like his feet or his voice," she said.

Nanette Gagnon is referencing her son Dext

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