I ran two marathons. The first was in Warwick, NY and the second in Newport, RI. My first marathon was a part of my “therapy” after my wife, Irene, died in 1992. During her long illness I had time to run and completed races up to 10 k, but I never had time [...]
I will never win an award for “World’s Greatest” husband, dad, administrator, teacher, or runner. However, running teaches me on a daily basis to give my best effort to be the best I can be. I try not to compare myself to others because there are always many others better than me. [...]
I’ve always run to stay in shape and stay fit, but while out running with a couple of colleagues/friends after school back in 2004, we would chat during our runs. So for me, it’s a more question of “who” inspired me to run a full marathon rather than “what”. Erin Varga and Denise Quenault and [...]
I was inspired to run a marathon because I wanted to try something new, challenging and very, very different from my “normal” athletic activities. So much of my athletic has focused on team sports, so the idea of accepting an individual athletic challenge was intriguing. For my first marathon in New York, I followed [...]
I had been running for nine years, through two pregnancies and deliveries and eight years of being adjunct facutly at Rutgers, when my running partner (another mother of small children with a desire to keep her weight down) bullied me into it. She had already completed two, outrunning strong men in the Marine Corps Marathon [...]
I started running about 20 years ago, just to stay in shape, little did I know…
For years I ran every race distance there is out there, but no marathon. After giving birth to my son Danny, I decided it was time. I registered for my first marathon in 2001. I trained with my two children, [...]
Hearing about Dave Mazsa’s and Steve Loy’s earlier experiences with marathons first inspired me to run a marathon. So did getting lots of encouragement from former History teacher & multiple marathoner Suhrid Gajendragadkar. We ran the Boston Marathon together in 2000 and 2001 (He finished WAY ahead of me both times, as did Steve [...]
I do not run marathons but I have and am once again competing in combined driving marathons with my horse. I have competed off and on in horse shows and the one year I tried combined driving I was very successful. I got hooked—bought a young horse to train for this event in particular. Three [...]
A couple of things inspired me to run my first marathon in New York City. I was turning 40 that year and our sons Eric and Christopher were going to be in Pre-K 4 full-time. I was already missing them and decided that I needed a challenging goal. Steve had run the [...]
I have started five marathons and finished four. I grew up near Boston and was always fascinated by the Boston Marathon. A friend’s father was a regular in the event and he encouraged me to give it a try. So, it got on my Bucket List. In college I spent the [...]