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Sissy Austin trains for NY marathon as she slowly recovers from violent attack during forest run

Sissy Austin has been selected to run in the Indigenous Marathon Foundation 2023 team. (Supplied: Sissy Austin)

It's been a long road to recovery for Sissy Austin after a random assailant attacked her while running in a Victorian forest two months ago.

But the proud Djab Wurrong woman says the attack, which took place at her "happy place", Lal Lal State Forest, 20 minutes south-east of Ballarat, will not stop her from achieving her dreams.

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