Frayed Laces Does The Boston:

My favorite running blogger/runner, Frayed Laces, just completed the 113th running of the Boston Marathon in 4:42:36.

If you think that is not fast, I will tell you that she is a 3:38 marathon runner, ( You have to be fast to even qualify for Boston ) but had to overcome multiple injuries and adversity just to finish this race, and at one point leading up to race day was convinced she might not even finish, but was going to come from Hawaii to give it a shot anyway.

The range of emotions this lady has had to endure have run the gamut, from crying to elation.

But I think it is the wide range of personality traits that makes her one of my favorite bloggers.

She is sort of like a nuclear reactor, capable of putting out tremendous energy, but with the possibility of a meltdown always there.

I won't sit here and say "I knew she could do it," like some people say after a fact, because I really didn't know.

Much can go wrong in a marathon even when you are in perfect shape.

But now she earns a finisher's medal, in the most prestigious race in the history of mankind, and had already qualified to run the 2010 Boston Marathon.

Way to go Frayed, you deserve a blog post dedicated entirely to you.

*Update - I set a new 5K PR on my treadmill tonight. I honestly believe that following the progress of my running heroes do the Boston today, ( Over the Internet ) imagining what pain many were dealing with running up heartbreak hill, etc. helped me get past a sticking point in my own running tonight. I kept telling myself "If they can do this injured, than I can set a PR injury free."

Thank You Frayed and the others for the inspiration.