As a young woman, Denise Marie Fugo was a speed demon--a runner and a downhill skier in Ohio and Wisconsin. "I really had poor form, but I skied as fast as I could," she recalls. She also was a cheerleader at Garfield Heights High School near Cleveland, going all-out jumping, kicking and motivating the team and the fans.
But bad knees, which run in her family, slowed her down. Unwilling to deny her athletic leanings, by 1990 she gravitated to cross-country skiing, where her knees did not take such a toll. Now she can ski at least five miles to her heart's content--albeit a little slower.
"I really fell in love with cross-country skiing through the 1990s," …
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