Monique Koll was determined to run this year’s Rock ‘n’ Roll New Orleans Half Marathon, a race she completed last year, when she was hit by a motorist and suffered a spinal cord injury. In this clip from the Today Show, watch as her boyfriend, Nick Zaunbrecher, pushes her wheelchair the entire distance and then helps her cross the finish line on foot.

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