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Marathoning with Arthritis

September12

My friend Susan has had rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years, and a couple of years ago she ran her first marathon. I was there in Dublin in 2004 when she ran her second one, and now she’s running the half-marathon in Amsterdam on October 15th. She solicits charitable donations for the Arthritis Society as part of their Joints in Motion running team: note that usually a JIM team is made up of people who are running in support of someone who them know with arthritis, not the arthritis sufferer herself.

If you know Susan, or even if you don’t, you can sponsor her online here.

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“Marathoning with Arthritis”

On March 23rd, 2007 at 1:55 pm Off Topic :: Reggae Run Says:
[...] the great research that they do to keep people like her running (or at least walking). I’ve written previously about her last run, the half-marathon in Amsterdam last October: the picture on the left is her [...]

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I’m a mid-40’s feminist engineer, living in Toronto with Damir, my slightly eccentric Croatian husband, who is also an engineer. Since I do software and he does hardware, we’re pretty symbiotic, although he hasn’t yet figured out that the vacuum cleaner is, technically, hardware.

Born in Toronto at the very end of the baby boom, I grew up in a time early enough that women still had to fight for equal opportunities, but late enough that we at least had some chance of getting them; these experiences shaped both my career and my outlook on life. I’m the youngest of four siblings, which undoubtedly also shaped my outlook.

I love food, wine, cooking and travel, and it’s my goal to do at least one lengthy (3+ weeks) international trip each year. I’ve become addicted to Flickr, and carry my camera with me all the time to capture the weird things that happen around me every day.

In my day job, I’m an independent business process management (BPM) analyst, consultant and systems architect, specializing in BPM design, enterprise architecture and business intelligence. You can find my business blog here. In the past, I’ve started and run two companies: a desktop workflow and document management product company from 1988-90, and a 40-person BPM and e-commerce systems integrator from 1990-2000. During 2000-2001, I moved to southern California and worked for FileNet as Director of eBusiness Evangelism during the launch of their eProcess BPM product, where I ended up travelling to 14 countries in 16 months and meeting lots of people who I can now visit in other countries. Since 2002, I’ve been back to a one-person private consulting practice.

This blog came about because of all the posts that I was putting on my business blog that had the category “off topic”: rants about poor customer service, business ideas and topics that had nothing to do with BPM, links to my mom’s blog and more. I like to keep the business blog a bit focussed on professional topics, so this is my outlet for everything else in my life that’s not about BPM.

Sandy

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