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Overcoming the February Funk

I feel like a broken record complaining about the snow. But for the past 6 weeks, it’s all anyone in Boston has talked about. And as ridiculous as it might sound to complain about something as basic as the weather,

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You Can’t Do It Alone

I recently took a week off to travel up the California coast and visit family and friends in San Francisco. My training plan had me running 13 miles that weekend, so I convinced my best friend Liz, who lives out

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Why Rare Disease Day Matters

Last holiday season, I organized a gift-wrapping fundraiser for the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) at a bookstore. One of my “customers” jokingly said, “Rare diseases? Right, because you wouldn’t want to raise funds for any of those common

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Running Tales by Emma

This April, I will be running in the Boston Marathon raising awareness for Rare Diseases, a cause that I am very passionate about. In a previous blog post, my patient partner Emma and I shared our story of how we

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I am running the 2014 Boston Marathon.

That sentence still doesn’t seem real to me. I’m not sure when exactly it will sink in – maybe at the starting line? Running a marathon is something I never in a million years thought I’d be able to do

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Archive of posts from Marathon runners dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of people with serious disease.