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Elliott's on a running 'JAG'
New York VUE, April 2004
We'll never again marvel at how stars of hour-long series can put in 16-hour days all week long. "JAG" star David James Elliott works those kind of hours, then goes out for an 8-or10-mile run. On weekends, he goes for "long runs," including "mile sprints uphill." Often, he runs with the boom man of his series crew, "who is as obsessive as I am," he reports. Elliott's marathon outings included the L.A. and Boston races, and in October, he plans to do the notorious Ironman competition on Kona, in Hawaii - "a 22-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and then run the marathon. That's the plan, if I can stay injury-free," he says. The 43-year-old actor, who has an 11-year-old daughter (also a runner) and a 1-year-old son, says his wife "is pretty supportive" of his running. Meanwhile, he still enjoys applying his extraordinary energy to his series. He says viewers will see "one of the characters leave for good - a couple of them go away" at season's end. Which ones? Elliott's been playing a military man long enough to answer, "If I told you, I'd have to kill you."
