Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Distance Diva

So, Heather just finished up a terrific XC camp run by the Greater Lowell Road Runners. Huge kudos to Noelle Horelik, who ran the camp and did a fabulous job corraling all the kids together every day for their jaunt through the trails around Shedd Park.

At camp's end, Noelle did a great job doling out awards to each of the kids, putting a distinct touch on each of them, recognizing each of the individual personalities and styles.

One by one, she pecked through the group, until she got to Heather.

This award, she explained, "goes out to a great runner, who was on my case all week about the distance we were running. You see, it seems the two mile course we were doing wasn't enough. She just kept saying why don't we run longer, we should run more, we should do a longer course."

That's my girl.

So for her hardwork, tenacity, and her desire to go that extra distance, I present some pics of the winner of the official first-ever GLRR Distance Diva award, my XC star, Heather:

This one's from the John Piekos book of race photo posing:

6 comments:

Anne said...

Congratulations Heather!
Awesome job!

Anonymous said...

running long distance is a great talent, and exhausting!!! Congrats Heather.

Tom B said...

Man those Cook kids really are "Born to Run". Great work Heather. I'll wait patiently to see your picture on the cover of Running Times.

HH said...

From one Heather to another.....Great job!!

Anonymous said...

Way to go , Heather. You have the impetus. Keep it going strong.

Martha

Unknown said...

You are my hero Heather! Running across the street is all the running I do! Nice work girlfriend! Christine