There could be no better day than today to introduce myself as part of the Running4Rare Boston team. But, before I tell you the importance of this date, I’ll tell you a bit more about myself. My name is Sarah,…

In 2015, as an experiment, the Running for Rare Diseases (Running4Rare) board decided to add the Providence Marathon and Half Marathon as an option to inspire the involvement of more employees.  Incredibly, not only were more employees interested, so were…

Greetings from your RFRD team member in the Mountain Time Zone. I am Justin but better known as Garrett’s dad in many circles, including the RFRD crew. Garrett has the honor of being Phil Maderia’s patient partner this year.   When…

An open letter to my runner, Maureen It was a bitter cold day, snow swirls everywhere. Not the pretty snow, but the angry snow that pelts your face like buckshot. Get out there and shovel a little path, just from…

This has been a really difficult post to write though I can’t really say why!? I went back and was reading Anne Burtenshaw (and her husband Ed) entries from the last 2 years and realized I just needed to stop…

5 mins before I was due to leave for the recent 21 mile charity run the watch band on my Garmin broke. After dragging my husband (who can usually fix anything) out of bed at 6am to look at it…

We had been trying to have children for almost 10 years and finally after 7 losses we were blessed with a beautiful baby girl named Noah Maria. She decided to come early no matter what the consequences would be to…

I’m constantly looking for motivation wherever I can find it. After this winter, I was digging really deep. My husband found this speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger and when he wanted me to watch it I thought “really? How is he…