THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

Boston Marathon

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Location:

Wichita,KS,

Member Since:

Sep 14, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

marathon pr: 2:59:49. Saint George 2011

Praire Spirit 50 mile winner 7:36:30 2013

I accidentally ran 100 miles in November 2013. it was hard. I threw up a lot. decided to do a better job next time

I did it again on purpose October 2014--Heartland 100 winner and CR 17:38:37

Heartland 50 winner May 2014

Psycho Wyco 50k winner February 2012

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run enough to hold off the middle-age spread

Long-Term Running Goals:

~~Sub 3 hour marathon--SOMEDAY!~~ Done!

New long term goal: ....run enough to feel kinda like I did when I was fit

Personal:

I was a single mom. Two times over. We all survived, despite the fact that I make atrocious decisions. Then, I met a man I didn't deserve. And he loves me so much. And I love him. We lived in sin and bought a house for two years then hired a judge and officially got married(to our great delight and also the delight of our mothers), then a month later he was diagnosed with cancer. Well we survived all that and he's 100% fine now. But, we're really out of shape and really busy with kids and jobs and running just isn't my priority and there's so many other layers to all of it, but I'm running anyway. This is my failure blog now. Just to log that one run a week if I snag it.
Somehow that matters and I want that run recorded.

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Mon, Apr 21, 2014

Race: Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:28:54

Total Distance

26.20

I met with Julie and we had an incredible week!! Wish we could see each other motre than every few years.

We ran Boston together. It's been a tough year for both of us. We celebrated. We high-fived, yelled, fist-pumped, threw our hands in the air, and ran because we could. Then we held hands and crossed the finish together, and then we cried together.

There is nothing in the world like joining together as women and telling our stories, and laughing and crying and running epic-boston-year together.

We dorked out and wore matching outfits too.

"Go blue times two", "go twins". Great day!!

And then we ended up without a ride to our hotel after, with no phone, no id, no money.

Thank you Tom Cali from Penn State and your Porsche with the top down. We had good luck with meeting great people!

I'm ready to run hard and train again. Thank you FRB.

I'm humbled. We passed a guy at mile 23 crutching away on one leg. So much to take in from last years tragedy and stories of strength and grace.

Julie is a Rock Star. She was hurting from an injury and pulled through and ran Boston with me anyway. I LOVE YOU JULIE!!

Thank you Lord for letting me live to run another day. I was hit by a car exactly one year ago April 22.

Have a great day bloggers!!

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Comments

From JulieC on Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:06:57 from 63.224.115.5

IN a NUTSHELL!! : D GO BLUE TIMES TWO!! :D I love it "dorked out" is perfect. No other way to not lose ourselves in the crowd LOL. LOVE YOU TOO SOUL SISTA!! Went by all too quickly...now to await eagerly for that 50 miler with your quads sufficiently beaten into submission by Boston. OH YAH!! : D

From Tracy on Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 15:55:31 from 50.103.238.125

Love the report! I've been waiting for it! Congrats to the two of you for having a great race TOGETHER!!!!

From Jason D on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 21:08:01 from 24.1.80.94

Glad you had a great experience at the race. More importantly, glad you are here and healthy.

From SlowJoe on Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 06:50:29 from 66.69.93.8

So glad you got to run the race. Congrats!

From allie on Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 16:01:09 from 174.27.221.249

amazing, april. congratulations.

From Matt Schreiber on Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:51:00 from 50.83.1.61

Sounds like you had a great time. Matching outfits sounds like the way to go!

From josse on Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 17:48:19 from 67.148.98.20

Sounds like you two had a good old time:)

From Jackie82 on Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 15:10:49 from 8.28.178.116

I should have been following the blog better, we could have met up in Boston! Congrats on having a fun race.

From Sasha Pachev on Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:34:50 from 72.250.218.114

A little bit of trivia. April 22nd is Lenin's birthday, so bad luck. April 21st is my birthday, so hopefully good luck. But not one day earlier - April 20th is Hitler's birthday :-)

If you moved to Utah you could train with Julie every day. Maybe it sounds like a crazy thought, but at least in chess, while by far not every crazy move is good, most are actually bad, the best move frequently appears crazy on superficial examination.

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