This April I will be running the 2025 Boston Marathon with Team Brookline, supporting the Brookline Library Foundation. This race will be the end of a long journey my husband and I started almost 8 years ago when we decided to run the New York City Marathon, which happened to fall on our first wedding anniversary. At the time it seemed like a slightly crazy, but amazingly epic way to celebrate. After crossing the finish line, exhausted and elated, we swore we’d never do it again.

But it turned out we had caught the marathon bug and signed up to run the Chicago Marathon three days later. Since that day we’ve been around the world to run the Chicago, London, Berlin and Tokyo Marathons. Now we are back in our hometown with one World Major Marathon to go to earn our Six Star Medal*.

_{*Since we started our Marathon mission, Sydney has also been added as a World Major Marathon, but is not part of the Six Star Medal. One day, the World Majors intends to grow to 9 races, and will issue a 9 Star Medal. We plan to be well retired from running marathons by then!}

Team Brookline

We are grateful and fortunate to be working with a wonderful organization, which raises money for a number of non-profits in the city of Brookline, MA. For anyone unfamiliar with the Boston Marathon, the majority of the race takes place outside of Boston itself. Starting in the suburb of Hopkinton, runners then travel through Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, and Brookline before finally entering the city of Boston just before mile 25.

Every year these cities and towns host runners, spectators and fans, interruptions and crowds, and the cost and spectacle of the oldest Marathon in the United States. Team Brookline is a great example of the partnership between the Boston Marathon and the communities that host the race year after year. Runners selected for the team are able to raise funds that benefit one of the cities that makes the marathon possible.

Team Brookline supports six organizations — the Brookline Library Foundation, the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health, the Brookline Education Foundation, the Brookline Food Pantry, the Brookline Teen Center, and the Brookline Symphony Orchestra. We are incredibly honored to be running and raising money for the Brookline Library Foundation.

Brookline Library Foundation

Libraries are, of course, near and dear to my heart. As a life-long book fanatic, and now author, I can’t say enough about what libraries provide for every community, and the Brookline Library system is no exception. Even better, Brookline is part of the Minuteman Library Network, which consists of over 40 public libraries in Massachusetts including Acton, Bedford, Cambridge, Concord, Framingham, Millis, Somerville, Waltham, Woburn, and many more.

The Library Foundation uses funding to purchase books, run literacy classes and children’s programs, provide museum passes, technology and research materials, and so much more — all for free. We couldn’t be happier to support this great cause.

Fundraiser!

To help reach our fundraising goal, we are selling handmade Marathon and Library themed bookmarks and key chains, with all of the money going to The Brookline Library Foundation. Check them out at the link below!