She's blonde, stands about 1.85m, walks for miles and has arthritis.
When Kim Raggett, 37, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, she wanted to help Arthritis New Zealand and inspire others to get their walking and running shoes on.
The bubbly blonde organises the world's only arthritis marathon, right in the heart of Hamilton.
After reading that doing exercise was proven to help manage the pain from arthritis, Kim started walking, walking and more walking.
"I realised it was the Arthritis Appeal Week so I organised a marathon. It was just three of us who did it the first year. We raised $640."
The second Arthritis Marathon, last year, was opened to the public and raised nearly $5000.
She hopes this year on August 12 to have more than 150 people register and raise $10,000.
"The Arthritis Marathon will hopefully keep growing and build momentum. The more we can do with that the better," she says.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that may affect tissues and attacks the joints.
Kim knew there were many questions when presented with arthritis. "How is this going to affect me? What can I do? What can't I do? How bad is it going to get? How fast?
"Arthritis New Zealand is mainly funded by donations and fundraising; this was a way I could use my skills to help them help other people."
Kim, as a social media manager, business entrepreneur and photographer says she doesn't think about arthritis too much and adapts to situations.
"One of the interesting things with having arthritis is to learn the new things I can do, because I can't manage some of some of the things I used to do."
"I just bought a sea kayak and there were little clips that I couldn't undo, so I changed them to Velcro. You just have to carry on."
Kim has done the Gold Coast marathon, the Auckland marathon and on July 30, after two years of training, she will be one out of 80,000 people to compete in the San Francisco marathon.
"I am super excited about crossing the famous Golden Gate Bridge."
She competes by herself. "Not too many people are willing to walk 42km with me," she laughs.
But she hopes many Hamilton people will turn out to walk with her, for arthritis, on August 12.