To support my awesome sister! She qualified to run Boston last year but due to the number of people that wanted to run this year in support of the tragic events last year they raised the qualifying time and she missed out by a just few minutes. Then she entered a Power Bar competition on Facebook to win a chance to run and won! Now she is running Boston with VIP treatment, so awesome! Not to mention she had open heart surgery 2 years ago and thought her running career was over. And she will possibly need open heart surgery again to replace a value at some point. My sister ran the Boston marathon in 2006 and my mom was there to watch her finish. Since she is no longer with us it is an honor to go and watch my sister run. It will be a truly special event celebrating life, tragedy, the running community, my sister and our mom.
"Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race."
One year ago I was at work running on the treadmill on my lunch break when the bombs went off. The incident made me so mad and upset that I vowed then and there to be in Boston for the marathon in 2014. Before and after my heart surgery so many people had told me I couldn't or shouldn't run marathons anymore, but I didn't listen. I wasn't about to give up the sport I love. Fate aligned and in just a few short days I will be crossing that historic finish line in Boston. "The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." John Bingham
Boston 2006-
My sister with her cardiac surgeon/coworkers.
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