Come to think of it...

...she's the one that suggested the idea.

It's true. It was Kathleen who introduced me to running, or jogging as we called it then. She was from Dallas, after all, home of the legendary Kenneth Cooper who coined the word "aerobic" and founded the Cooper Clinic.

When she came to Boston, I was a sedentary grad student, and she said, "Why don't we go jogging along the Esplanade at 5:30 in the morning?" Well, there were a lot or reasons not to go jogging at 5:30 in the morning, but one very good reason which overruled them all. So jog we did, at 5:30 a.m., along the Esplanade.

It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, as they say. And here we are 35 years later still getting up in the darkness of the early dawn and racing together.

It's been a good run!