By McKenzi Taylor | Adventure Photographer

Some of you may know that I enjoy a good run from time to time and have done a few marathons, half marathons and triathlons… Running has literally transformed my life. When I first moved to California in 2008, I knew I wanted to become more active and meet more active people with healthy lifestyles, that’s when I decided to join Team in Training and run for a cause. I met some of the most amazing people, one of whom I recently learned passed away from cancer herself which I am still in shock from.

I can’t tell you how fortunate I am to have met some of the most amazing people through my running journey’s. I have run several races with great friends (trust me, you find out many details about your running partners on long painful 20 mile runs), met interesting people that have traveled the world, run with people that have run 100 mile races, been a part of other awesome causes like the 100 Mile Club. Through running, I learned to swim in the ocean and train and do my first half ironman.  Because I had an interest in all of that, I believe I was able to really transcend into so many other likes and hobbies.

So, the news from the Boston Marathon explosion was a very big shock to me. I have to admit, I followed it tirelessly each and every day until the suspect(s) were captured. I knew a few people that qualified for the Boston Marathon and I knew they were there and I couldn’t image all the chaos they were experiencing at that point. I just don’t understand why someone would choose a marathon as the target for terrorism. People spend a great deal of their lives training and trying to qualify for this a once in a lifetime experience, it seems so unfair to rob these qualifiers of their joyous occasion because of someone’s insane decision to attack this wonderful event.

I am really trying to understand why anyone would do this, but alas we may never understand.

I’ll keep running… that’s all I know.

#runforboston

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