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Thank you, Runner’s World!

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Grab your April issue of Runner’s World and turn to page 40.

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It’s me!

I am so absolutely thrilled to finally see this in print! I answered this question back in June 2012 and have been in contact regularly with the editor about when it would appear. It was definitely worth the wait.

Appearing in Runner’s World – in any capacity – was definitely something on my bucket list.

It almost happened last April during the Boston Marathon. Prior to Boston, RW was looking for so-called “Boston squeakers”, or people who barely got into Boston. I am the very definition of a squeaker – my BQ time was 3:43:46 and the cut-off for my age and gender was 3:43:46. Yep, you don’t squeak by any less than that. I received an email from Tish Hamilton (yes, Tish Hamilton!) asking if I would be available for a photo shoot at the Boston Marathon finish line the day before the race. RW was gathering “Boston squeakers” and was planning on doing a story about them. Umm, YES! Sidenote: if you know me in real life, you know that the prospect of a photo shoot makes me way more happy than it should.

I was literally on the edge of my seat with excitement. Not only was I running my first Boston, I was going to appear in Runner’s World. Does it get any better than that?!

Then the weather forecast got worse and worse (or hotter and hotter) and Tish sent an email saying the angle of the story had changed and instead RW was going to focus on the heat, not the squeakers. Photo shoot cancelled. Total bummer. I missed my shot as a RW model. BUT, I was still running Boston!

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Then came an email from a RW editor in June asking if I would answer a question for their “Ask The Experts” section. Holy crap – this was even better than a photo shoot. I was appearing in RW because of coaching. I never expected this!

Thank you RW. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity and would love (love, love!) to work with you again in the future.

To those of you reading Run The Long Road for the first time – welcome! I hope you like what you see and stick around for awhile.

To those of you interested in coaching, my services are listed here. You can contact me at runthelongroad (at) gmail.com with any questions. Go ahead and check out my PR page to see how “fast” I am – I don’t mind. What I lack in speed I make up for in knowledge Smile

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  8. bethp262 says

    Congrats, Kristy! That is so cool! I didn’t get my issue yet, but that will be the first page I look at when I get it!

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  10. Kelly says

    so, so cool, Kristy!! I haven’t gotten my April issue yet (!!!!) but am turning to page 40 as soon as I do 🙂

    I didn’t know that about Boston!! What a cool thing to almost happen, haha. Darn heat.

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  14. Terzah says

    This is so cool! Congrats–I hope you get a lot of new business out of it. I haven’t gotten my copy yet–hopefully today. That’s too bad they didn’t do the squeakers story–I would have been interested in that. :^)

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  20. Kara says

    That’s pretty cool! If you really want to prove your coaching credentials, you should tell me how to get a 22 min 5K and then I talk about you on my world famous blog. Tempting, I know. 🙂

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