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... Corrigan conquers weight-loss demons - Sport - smh.com.au NEWS register www.smh.com.au Home » Sport » Article Corrigan conquers weight-loss demons Email Print Normal font Large font Ready to go the distance … Australian mile record-holder Lisa Corrigan limbers up for training.Photo: Andrew Taylor Other related coverage Jamieson turns from dreamer to believer Jessica HalloranMarch 10, 2007 ABOUT this time last year her ribs were dangerously rippling her pale skin.

Lisa Corrigan had decided that if she was to run faster she would have to eat less.

Calories were a dreadful obsession and the runner would balance her bony frame on the scales almost every morning.

By March 2006, Corrigan's weight was down to 43 kilograms and she was still running 140 kilometres a week.

Back then Corrigan didn't think she was too skinny.

Today, she realises she was well on her way to anorexia.

It took a while, too, for her coach, Dick Telford, to realise that Corrigan was fading away.

Around the tiny runner everyday, Telford admits it was hard to notice the gradual, yet dangerous, weight change in the girl he'd been coaching since she was 17.

"It crep...

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