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On 12/06/2009, Chris attempted and suceeded in qualifying for the Boston Marathon.
My running journey started innocently enough in December, 2007 with much encouragement and teasing from Danae. Two years passed, many happy and unhappy miles run (In 2009, I ran over 2200 miles to train for CIM), and a few awesome Kstar friendships later, he accomplished his goal.
I value running for the stress relief, friendship, but more importantly to help train my “sprinter mind” the value of long term planning. The CIM race itself had many mini-adversities: 34 degree starting temperature; broken running watch; being caught multiple times by the 3:10 group over the last 5 miles. A sense humor pulled me through and the mission was accomplished with a final time of 3:09:34!
