Elizabeth Maiuolo

We are super close already and it knows a lot of my secrets (like how much I love/hate planks, depending on my mood that day! Anyway, it’s very light so I can move it around all day, but mostly just avoiding its stare when we both know it’s time for a quick workout! Also, I don’t need to pull blankets, yoga mats, yoga blocks, towels, and whatnots so my bones don’t get hurt/chafed/etc like they do when pushed into the wrong surface. This is a huge game-changer for people like me who also don’t like changing clothes to go outside.

She decided she needed to run the marathon that she had trained for, so she signed up, said she’d look into the logistics and I could do the half, you know, like Batman and Robin (I am Robin here). It’s in PA, a two hour drive from NYC (more like 3 IRL) and and out and back, a new course for what I heard, of 6.55 M, on the same road. We got bibbed up, met the famous Mark who’d send us crazy funny and long emails and he told us stories of Argentina (menem’s sideburns!) Also, on our way to the start, we stopped at one of the fluid stations (the first one I think) and they all had water and one porta potty, but this is what the fluid station looked like in case you want to drop off your stuff, or don’t know how to decorate it.

He sees me from up close, day after day, getting up at the crack of dawn to run or workout, when I am tired, when it’s dark out, when I am sick, when I just raced, when it’s miserably cold out, when I don’t want to, and he tells me I am his “inspiration So, every day it’s a series of acts to get those needs met: breath in and out, drink water, eat something to survive, find shelter, stay out of traffic, etc. Obviously, we want a lot more than those -we want to be happy, to have fun, to see our people, to share, to be loved, to create, to be more, to make someone happy, to make a difference, etc. Being happy and being fit is within the bigger category of pushing into goal #2: being a rounded, happy, strong, caring, smart part of the community.