David Jablonski: A Mother’s Day tribute to a Marathon mom
* Save The hardest part of getting my Mom ready for the 130th Boston Marathon was untangling the four safety pins she needed to pin her race number to her shirt. I spent at least five minutes figuring out that Rubik’s Cube on Monday, April 20, as we rode the subway to Boston Common. We had no problem finding the buses that took runners to the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass.
Everywhere you ...
* Save The hardest part of getting my Mom ready for the 130th Boston Marathon was untangling the four safety pins she needed to pin her race number to her shirt. I spent at least five minutes figuring out that Rubik’s Cube on Monday, April 20, as we rode the subway to Boston Common. We had no problem finding the buses that took runners to the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass.
Everywhere you looked, runners wearing blue and yellow Boston Marathon jackets were heading in the same direction. Following the crowd took us to the right place. At this point, my mom, Mary Jablonski — or Mary Leary, for those who remember her from the Alter High School class of 1971 — was more worried about what to wear than about the 26.
2 miles of running she faced that day. Did she need two layers on top? Would she be too hot or too cold?
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