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Two-Time Champion and Mayo Clinic Experts Headline Health & Fitness Expo

1986 and 89 Marathon Champion Kim Jones to Discuss Adversity

St. Paul, Minn. September 30, 2014 Kim Jones, a two-time champion of the Twin Cities Marathon, will join a group of Mayo Clinic health and fitness experts as the headliners for the 2014 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon Health & Fitness Expo at Saint Paul RiverCentre on October 3 & 4.

The free event features more than 120 exhibitors offering the latest running and fitness information, advice, and products; the Athlete News Conference highlighting professional athletes and inspirational Faces in the Crowd participants; plus additional presenters. The expo will also offer bystander CPR instruction from the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium as part of TCMs effort to educate the community about the importance and ease of bystander CPR.

Jones, who won the Twin Cities Marathon in 1986 and 1989, is the author of the acclaimed book Dandelion Growing Wild, an autobiography chronicling her running career, as well as many challenges that she faced on and off the race course. The subject of Jones talk at the expo is: Running Through the Wall of Adversity.

The Mayo Clinics expert presenters will speak on a wide range of topics including strength training, injury prevention, and fueling for performance. Mayo Clinic is a proud sponsor of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon. More than 3,700 physicians, scientists and researchers, and 50,100 allied health staff work at Mayo Clinic, which has campuses in Rochester, Minn; Jacksonville, Fla; and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz.; and at community-based providers in more than 70 locations in southern Minnesota, western Wisconsin and northeast Iowa. Mayo Clinic opens a new sports medicine facility in Block E of downtown Minneapolis tomorrow.

The Health & Fitness Expo at Saint Paul RiverCentre is an exciting part of a full weekend of running and fitness activity in Minneapolis and St. Paul centered on the 33rd running of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon. Even non-runners can enjoy the event, which includes free coffee from Caribou Coffee, chips from Old Dutch, the sale of exclusive Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon apparel, and a variety of other athletic retailers.

The Health & Fitness Expo opens Friday, October 3 at noon and runs until 8:00 p.m. that evening. On Saturday, October 4, the Expo is open from 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.