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Resilience key to success of CrossFit marathoners
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CrossFit is a workout regime best known for its ultrahigh intensity and relatively short duration. But a quintet of athletes from Hopkinton’s Resilience Fitness will take on a much longer fitness endeavor when they run the Boston Mara- Life is a marathon, thon this October. The group in- not a sprint.cludes Rebecca Paquette, Jamie Weeden, Katie Cox, Jaclyn Start life’s biggest purchase off on the right foot! Chirco and Jim Dunlap. They are look- Contact Bryan to learn more. ing to raise upward of $25,000 to benefit various local charities.
“When you’re running all these Jamie Weeden, Katie Cox and Rebecca Paquette, shown miles, it’s good to have something that is close to the heart,” said Pawith The Starter statue at the Town Common, are among the Resilience Fitness members running this year’s Boston Marathon. quette, a first-time marathoner who will there cheering,” Weeden said. “You be running for the Hopkinton Educa- compare that to Boston where there is tional Foundation (gofundme.com/f/ not a stretch without someone cheering rebeccas-262-for-hopkinton-education- you on. That makes mile 16, 17, 18, 26 foundation), which provides grants to so much more exciting.” teachers to assist with innovative ways Paquette and Cox said they are to help children learn. both looking forward to experiencing
“For me, it’s really meaningful to the crowds. run for that,” Paquette said. “I have two “The feeling of being a part of girls in the school system, my husband something as massive as the Boston is a teacher in the system, and it’s been Marathon, which is recognized on a great to see how teachers are constantly global scale, it’s just awesome,” Pathinking outside the box.” quette said.
Cox, another first-timer, is a teacher “The training runs are getting lonand will be raising money for the ger, and sometimes it’s like, ‘Why am I Friends of the Hopkinton Public Library doing this?’ ” Cox added. “But I think (gofundme.com/f/katelyns-boston- those crowds are going to be so amazing marathon-fundraiser). and it’s all going to be worth it in that
“Everything I do revolves around moment.” teaching young kids, so I jumped at the Marathons take multiple hours, opportunity to run for the library,” she even for the world’s best runners, said. “I love how they fundraise for the whereas CrossFit workouts often are materials for all the fun extra learning over in a matter of minutes. But the activities that the library puts on and the women said their training at the gym is free museum passes.” applicable to running 26.2 miles.
Weeden is a veteran marathoner, “It’s the mental toughness,” Pawith nearly a dozen races under her quette said. “It’s having the perspective belt. This will be her third time run- of something being seemingly imposning Boston. She will be lacing up her sible, whether it’s a 10-minute workout sneakers for the Hopkinton Women’s or a 26-mile run. It’s being able to put Club (gofundme.com/f/jamies-boston- yourself in the mindset of finishing and marathon-run-for-the-womens-club), getting through each moment.” which has a mission to improve the “Running is the same all the time, community through volunteer and other so taking care of yourself is really imphilanthropic work. portant,” Cox noted. “We need to be
“They are an organization that does on top of our stretching and recovery a lot for Hopkinton,” said Weeden, who every day.” is a co-owner of Resilience Fitness. Weeden compared the marathon train“Some of their members are members ing to high-volume CrossFit workouts at the gym. I like being able to give known as “chippers,” where the objective back to members as well as give back is to “chip away” at the various exercises. to the community. They are under the “When I am out on the marathon radar, but they do amazing work, and route, that’s how I see my roads, I chip that speaks a lot to me.” away,” she said.
As the most experienced marathon- Weeden ran Boston in 2013 and was er in the group, Weeden said the thrill of unable to finish due to the bombings running Boston as a Hopkinton resident that year. She said crossing the finish is “more than you can even imagine.” line the following year was emotional, She and her fellow gym members took but being a resident in the town where part in a Yeti endurance event, a round- the race begins adds an extra element the-clock race, in April. Running the of excitement. world’s most famous marathon is a “Being Hopkinton residents, it all much different experience, she said. starts here,” she said. “I always try to
“When we did the Yeti, we ran in pass by the start line on my training runs, the middle of the night, no one was out who else gets to do that?” HopkintonIndependent.com
