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44 Adirondack Sports Motel and cottages on the beautiful shore of Lake Placid Welcoming outdoor enthusiasts since 1971 • Two Pools, whirlpool, and sauna • Free boating • Picnic areas and bonfire • Family operated • Groups welcome WildwoodOnTheLake.com 518-523-2624 • 2135 Saranac Ave, Lake Placid Paul E. Lemanski, MD, PLLC Fellow, American College of Physicians Practicing Internal Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine Welcome Laurie Burton-Grego, MS, RDN, CDCES and our new comprehensive lifestyle program, PREVENT IT NOW! Accepting new patients on a limited basis Weight loss and obesity management • Optimizing lipids • Statin intolerance Hypertension • Prehypertension management with lifestyle Type-2 diabetes prevention and remission • C-PAP intolerant sleep apnea Rx GERD with minimal or no medication 4 Palisades Dr, Ste 130, Albany | 518-722-0099 | CenterForPreventiveMedicine.com Your adventure home begins with Northern-Routes.com ◾ Selling and buying single family homes ◾ Homes in transition: divorce, downsizing, estates, relocations Beth Grzyboski NYS Licensed Broker/Owner 518-877-5929 GoSeeBethG@gmail.com Clifton Park, NY ◾ Preparing home improvement plans for selling ◾ Social media sales strategies REALTY, INC. Enjoy what you’re reading? Order a FREE Subscription! Monthly magazine issues conveniently mailed first-class (fee covers postage) One year: $19.95 • Two years: $36.95 Three years: $49.95 AdkSports.com/subscribe Discover the Difference. From nursing to administrative roles, there’s a position for you! Enjoy a family-first, worklife balance culture, flexible work schedule and comprehensive benefits package. Full-time, part-time and per diem positions available at 21 locations. Apply today! HHHN.org/careers

COMMUNITY MAY 2024 45 ◀ BIG SMILES! EARLY MILES OF THE BOSTON MARATHON. ◀ SHAMUS RECORDING A PODCAST DURING RACE PREP IN HOPKINTON. ▶ FINISHING WITH THE BROKEN CHAIR AT SACKETS HARBOR MARATHON. Our Boston Marathon By Shaun Evans Shamus and I have been running together since he was old enough to sit in a jogging stroller. Shamus led the way as I trained for dozens of marathons in his early years. In 2013, Shamus became more than just my training partner. That year he and I began racing together. Since then, we have run countless road races of every distance, trail races, triathlons, ultramarathons, and of course, our transcontinental runs across America in 2015 and length of the Mississippi River in 2017. Over the years, running Boston together was always in the back of our minds. Shamus had heard me speak about the Boston Marathon for years… the history, qualifying standards, Dick and Rick Hoyt paving the way for duo teams like us, the party atmosphere of the race, and of course, the hills! While Boston was always something we wanted to do, it was never an immediate goal because we knew, per Boston Marathon rules and regulations, that Shamus could not participate until he turned 18. The years passed and as Shamus neared 18, we knew it was time to run a qualifying time. Duo teams must qualify in the time of the duo runner. For me, a man who would be 46 years old on race day, we needed to run under 3 hours 20 minutes. We had run sub 3:20 in every marathon that we had tried so we felt confident we could succeed. Initially, we planned to qualify at the Buffalo Marathon, Memorial Day weekend 2023, but our plans were altered when Shamus and Simon’s Odyssey of the Mind team earned a trip to World Finals last year! We had ◀ RACE DAY! EARLY MORNING BUS TO HOPKINTON. to find a new race before the Sept. 15 registration deadline for Boston. We opted to run the inaugural Sackets Harbor Marathon, on Lake Ontario in Jefferson County. The race directors welcomed us with open arms and were thrilled to have us attempt to qualify at their race. The event, volunteers, scenery, and course were phenomenal. However, for the first time ever in a race, Shamus and I had a chair malfunction. At mile nine, the handlebars snapped, and the back of the chair broke leaving me with nothing to push on except the sharp metal that remained. I typically push with my elbows flexed and my hands at chest height. Instead, I was forced to push the remaining 17 miles bent at the waist pushing at knee-level. While the conditions weren’t ideal, we were still able to qualify for Boston with a time of 2:59.35! The company that manufactured the chair had replacement parts to us within 10 days, and we reassembled the chair in time to run the Marine Corps Marathon in October, and then set our sights on Boston in April 2024! With Shamus being a high school senior, involved in numerous activities at school, and searching for colleges, we didn’t have the opportunity to run together from October through April with the exception of the Christopher Dailey Turkey Trot in Saratoga Springs, and a three-mile shake out run in Orlando, Fla. in February with a borrowed chair when we were there to watch the Olympic Trials Marathon with our fellow ASICS ambassadors. No exaggeration, those were the only two runs we did together between the Marine Corps Marathon and Boston. I knew that wasn’t ideal going into race day. Although I had been running, I wouldn’t say I had been marathon training. I was running four to five days per week and had not run more than 13 miles on any of my long runs all winter long. I was then sidelined for two weeks from February 26 to March 11 in the lead up to the marathon when my doctor instructed me not to run due to some medical concerns. I knew that Boston was going to be a challenge. I felt undertrained to run Boston as an individual, let alone having to push Shamus up the Newton hills. In addition to less-than-optimal training, our schedule made the logistics for running Boston a little tricky. Shamus and Simon’s Odyssey of the Mind (OM) team competed in the NYS tournament on April 13 in Syracuse. The event took place all day Saturday with the awards ceremony occurring that evening. We stayed for the awards, where their team was recognized for their sixth-place finish and where Shamus was presented with the NYS OM scholarship! We then drove back to Galway late Saturday night, unloaded the OM props, slept fast, and then woke up to load the van with our racing chair and Boston Marathon race-day gear. We arrived in Boston just in time to check into our hotel and pick up our racing bibs at the Hynes Convention Center. It was packed and we didn’t stay long. Instead, we strolled around Newberry Street, picked up some bagels for breakfast, and then grabbed dinner at the hotel restaurant, brought it up to our room, and settled in. We got a short night’s sleep before our 4am wake up call. We gathered everything to walk to the accessible buses to take us to Hopkinton. Shay rolled in his wheelchair while I pushed the racing chair. We checked-in and then waited until volunteers were ready to load our racing chair onto the truck. Shortly after, Shamus and I boarded our bus with our fellow duo runners and riders. We headed to the start line in Hopkinton with very low expectations as far as pace. Our goal was to simply enjoy the experience. Our race in Sackets Harbor had already qualified 2025 (there is a small window of dates where a marathon can run and qualify you for two years) so we felt no pressure. Having fun was our genuine objective! See COMMUNITY 47

44 <strong>Adirondack</strong> <strong>Sports</strong><br />

Motel and cottages on the<br />

beautiful shore of Lake Placid<br />

Welcoming outdoor enthusiasts since 1971<br />

• Two Pools, whirlpool, and sauna<br />

• Free boating • Picnic areas and bonfire<br />

• Family operated • Groups welcome<br />

WildwoodOnTheLake.com<br />

518-523-2624 • 2135 Saranac Ave, Lake Placid<br />

Paul E. Lemanski, MD, PLLC<br />

Fellow, American College of Physicians<br />

Practicing Internal Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine<br />

Welcome Laurie Burton-Grego, MS, RDN, CDCES<br />

and our new comprehensive lifestyle program,<br />

PREVENT IT NOW!<br />

Accepting new patients on a limited basis<br />

Weight loss and obesity management • Optimizing lipids • Statin intolerance<br />

Hypertension • Prehypertension management with lifestyle<br />

Type-2 diabetes prevention and remission • C-PAP intolerant sleep apnea<br />

Rx GERD with minimal or no medication<br />

4 Palisades Dr, Ste 130, Albany | 518-722-0099 | CenterForPreventiveMedicine.com<br />

Your adventure home begins with Northern-Routes.com<br />

◾ Selling and buying single<br />

family homes<br />

◾ Homes in transition: divorce,<br />

downsizing, estates, relocations<br />

Beth Grzyboski<br />

NYS Licensed Broker/Owner<br />

518-877-5929<br />

GoSeeBethG@gmail.com<br />

Clifton Park, NY<br />

◾ Preparing home<br />

improvement plans<br />

for selling<br />

◾ Social media sales<br />

strategies<br />

REALTY, INC.<br />

Enjoy what you’re reading?<br />

Order a FREE<br />

Subscription!<br />

Monthly magazine issues conveniently<br />

mailed first-class (fee covers postage)<br />

One year: $19.95 • Two years: $36.95<br />

Three years: $49.95<br />

Adk<strong>Sports</strong>.com/subscribe<br />

Discover the<br />

Difference.<br />

From nursing to administrative roles, there’s<br />

a position for you! Enjoy a family-first, worklife<br />

balance culture, flexible work schedule<br />

and comprehensive benefits package.<br />

Full-time, part-time and per diem positions<br />

available at 21 locations. Apply today!<br />

HHHN.org/careers

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