Christine Johansen
Ready to Run and Thank You Donors!
Christine Johansen tells her story of going from unhappy to healthy through running in triathlons and Monday ... her first Boston Marathon.
In the jack-of-all-trades sport of triathlon, people ask what you "are." Swimmer? Cyclist? Runner? My answer vacillates with the tides of my confidence. Swimmer-Cyclist-Runner? I am none of the above. I am all of the above. I’m an accident-prone 40-year-old lefty vegetarian chick. I’m a girl who haphazardly signed up for her first tri one sunny Sunday as she sat at her cousin’s bridal shower debating the pros and cons of gastric bypass surgery and wondering whether sanity was still an option. April 18, 2011 is mere hours away. Right now my answer is clear. I am a runner. Not just any old runner: I am No. 24777 in the 115th Boston Marathon. This has been a journey of 152 days and 657.93 sneaker-miles (I insert here many thanks to …
