"So I just ran with reckless abandon after that."

Prior to this week I had weakly decided to go to Boston to watch the Olympic Trials. Monday night I decided I had to go, and booked a flight (thanks Priceline for saving me lots of money and not forcing me to drive).

The Boston Globe has a great article about Joan Samuelson (she won the first womens marathon in LA). Some of my favorite quotes...

"After a while, I realized that I could mature a bit more and handle it," Samuelson says. "So I just ran with reckless abandon after that."

"I thought I heard him correctly, but I wasn't sure," she says. "Then I said, 'Whoa.' " (bold added)

"To run a 2:50 at the age of 50 would be a good goal to shoot for," says Samuelson, who is the second-oldest woman (after 53-year-old Marion "The Flying Nun" Irvine in 1984) to qualify for a trials.