Category Archives: CJ in the news :)

First the Cheeseburger Dude, Now Gary

Posted on May 27, 2011 by garmin_girl

  I gotta say: it’s been a lot easier to stomach being beaten by Gary Cattarin in “Operation Run Marlborough” than it was to be beaten by that anonymous dude in the cheeseburger costume during the Boston Marathon’s final mile. … Continue reading →

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WMCT-TV “day after” story :)

Posted on April 22, 2011 by garmin_girl

So with THIS piece the CJ-does-the-Boston-marathon publicity frenzy has gotta be over 🙂 It is airing tonight on local cable channel 10. What fun! OK, on to the half Ironman we go! 🙂 /cj

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Metrowest Daily News: Marlborough roadsters finish marathon

Posted on April 19, 2011 by garmin_girl

Apparently for Gary and me, that whole 15 minutes of fame thang has gone into overtime. The reporter who discovered we were both (separately and unbeknownst to each other) trying to run every road in Marlborough and wrote this April … Continue reading →

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Me, on TV? :)

Posted on April 15, 2011 by garmin_girl

OK, so news director Kristen Doucet is really good at her craft, because she was handed some pretty lousy material by yours truly and she crafted a really nice piece out of it! The story will air tonight at 6 p.m. on the … Continue reading →

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WMCT-TV Interview (aka What Happens When You Point the Camera at the PR Chick)

Posted on April 12, 2011 by garmin_girl

Memo to every spokesperson I’ve ever implored to quit umm-ing, stop rambling, make eye contact, cut to the chase, speak in witty soundbites and for goodness sake, enunciate:  I owe you great big apology; turns out I suck way more … Continue reading →

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Expending My 15 Minutes

Posted on April 7, 2011 by garmin_girl

If Andy Warhol was right and everyone gets 15 minutes of fame, my lifetime supply will be exhausted long before Pair C and I head to Hopkinton.  Yesterday I got a call from Kristen Doucet, who is the anchor at local … Continue reading →

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“Mom of 2 Really Really Really Likes Her Number”

Posted on April 4, 2011 by garmin_girl

OK I thought you’d get a kick out of this–I sure as heck am enjoying it 🙂 The editor of the Hopkinton Patch picked up one of my recent blogs, did some edits and posted it to their news site. The … Continue reading →

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Separated at Birth?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by garmin_girl

File this under “supremely wacky things that happened on the way to Hopkinton”: If you’ve been paying even casual attention to my blog you’re probably vaguely familiar with my goal of running all 569-odd streets, byways and even highways in this fair city. … Continue reading →

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My Hopkinton Patch Dispatches

Posted on March 2, 2011 by garmin_girl

I am positively tickled pink that a local news site has asked me to blog for them from now until Marathon Monday. Why the Hopkinton Patch would choose me instead of some real runner like, oh, say, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, Teyba … Continue reading →

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