Wai Yee and her friends are training to run in the 2012 Standard Chartered Marathon. They're a bit nervous. Not because they're blind, but because this is their first big running event and most of them just started running a few months ago.

But they're keen, and have been training hard with their volunteer guides, who will run the 10km race with them. And they're raising funds through the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped as they run, so that more blind folk can have opportunities to enjoy sports.

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