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作为全球首屈一指的科技发展趋势预测公司 (International Data Corp) 的首席预测专家，弗兰克(Frank Gens)的40年职业生涯可谓辉煌灿烂。然而他却从未预测到自己会在57岁时开挂了如此精彩的人生：从一个对跑步完全不感兴趣甚至厌恶的人锐变成为一位执着的马拉松跑者。短短九年时间，他一共完成了22个马拉松，其中21次获得波士顿马拉松赛的资格，实现了无数马拉松跑者终其一生也无法实现的梦想。弗兰克目前已完成世界六大马拉松大满贯的波士顿、纽约、芝加哥和柏林，并在61岁时在柏林马拉松比赛中创下了自己最快的记录，以3 小时 16 分的成绩位居同龄组第16名。今年十月，史无前例的秋季波士顿马拉松将是弗兰克第九次奔跑在波马的赛道上。
弗兰克希望能一直保持状态跑到80岁，每年都驰骋在波马的赛场。如耐克广告中所说的那样：干就得了! (Just Do It!)

Frank Gens
生活是一场奇妙的旅行 ，常常带领我们走向令人惊讶的未来。从生物学家转型为科技发展趋势的首席预测专家，从“厌跑者”锐变为一名执着的马拉松跑者，弗兰克在他的人生中创造了一个个连自己也未预测到的不可能，领悟出了人生中的一个真理：在任何年龄，重新开始永远都为时不晚，去创造，去体验，去超越，活出生命的精彩。
不要被动地等待未来的到来，
而去创造你想要的未来
- 威尔和阿里尔杜兰特
Frank Gens 的故事
弗兰克在波士顿附近的 Jamaica Plain社区长大。1897年，尚是青少年的外祖父母从爱尔兰移民至此。弗兰克从小就读于波士顿拉丁学校，在这所全美最古老的公立中学里学会了分析思考以及与人交流，为他后来成为科技发展趋势预测专家打下了坚实的基础。拉丁学校给八年级的学生开设了计算机和编程课，这在 1967 年是非常不寻常的。尽管弗兰克说他当年对计算机与编程并不觉得有什么大不了的，多年以后，随着他的职业生涯从生物学转向技术，早期与计算机的接触对此起了很大的帮助也成了不言自证的事实。
”不过拉丁学校也教我讨厌跑步”，弗兰克玩笑着说。每一年体育老师只让学生跑几次一英里；而弗兰克跑步时跑步时经常背部一侧岔气，踹不过气来。他发誓除非躲不过，否则这辈子都不想再跑步了！
在约翰霍普金斯大学学习期间，弗兰克迷上了生态学。他的第一本生态学教科书是由哈佛生物学家 EO Wilson 编写的，20年后，Mr. Wilson与弗兰克在莱镇成为了后院接后院的邻居！多有趣的巧合！）离开约翰霍普金斯大学之后，弗兰克在生物学职业道路上继续读研深造，来到了位于加州 Marin County Tomales Bay 的太平洋大学海洋实验室研究海洋生物与生态学。
职业变迁
从生物学家到科技趋势预测专家
1980年，弗兰克获得了海洋生物学硕士学位，从旧金山湾区搬回波士顿 。正当他准备在麻省政府开始一份海洋生物学的工作时，他有幸得知一家为计算机行业做市场预测的公司正在招聘。那个年代个人电脑刚呱呱坠地，科技世界开始成为一个职业热点。得益于早年在学校使用计算机的经验，弗兰克说服公司雇用了他。就这样，他离开了生物学，开始了长达40 年之久的趋势预测职业生涯，并成为这一行业的佼佼者。
弗兰克早期作为技术分析师和预测员（约 1982 年、1986 年）
弗兰克说，他非常幸运拥有这样的一份职业：每天领着薪水去了解世界上发展最快、影响最大的行业 - 信息科技，分析和预测新技术，诸如微处理器、个人电脑、互联网、云计算以及最近的人工智能，对商业和社会的影响。
左图：弗兰克与 IBM 首席执行官 Ginni Rometty
右图：弗兰克与微软首席执行官比尔盖茨
在过去的 20 年里，作为全球领先的科技发展预测公司 IDC 的首席分析师，弗兰克撰写了公司对信息技术未来的年度预测。他也经常向 IBM、微软、谷歌、亚马逊、AT&T、SAP 以及许多其他科技巨头的高管们提供在快速发展的市场中下一步将会如何发展的预测并在六大洲近 40 个国家（包括中国）的数十万高管面前发表了数百场关于未来科技发展的演讲。人们可以在 YouTube 上找到许多弗兰克的演讲。他在这些演讲中做出了许多惊人准确的预测，当然也少不了一些他宁愿忘记的预测(弗兰克幽默地补充道)。
尽管在信息行业和科技发展趋势预测的职业生涯中取得了成功，但弗兰克从未预料到跑步会成为他生活的重要组成部分，不曾想过他会成为一名忠实的马拉松跑者。
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弗兰克在CNBC以及Onstage平台分享行业预测
人生转型
从厌跑者到马拉松跑者
弗兰克向马拉松运跑者的转型简单而缓慢。1991 年他和妻子 Marcia 从查尔斯敦搬到莱镇，但直到 2000年中，为了陪伴初中与高中就读的三个儿子，他才偶尔与儿子一起参加莱镇经常举办的五公里跑步的社区赛事。
弗兰克和他的儿子们一起参加莱镇的5K 比赛
到了2011年，弗兰克与跑步的关系才真正开始发生变化。在一位同事的鼓励下，弗兰克参加 了2011 年波士顿半程马拉松（13.1 英里）比赛且跑得相当出色。这促使他那些热衷于马拉松的莱镇朋友建议他将目光投向 2013 年波士顿马拉松赛。
当时对弗兰克来说这似乎是一个遥不可及的目标：波士顿马拉松历来是跑者心目中的圣殿。许多人花费数年时间训练和参加其他马拉松比赛，就是为了获得一张进入圣殿的门票，也就是参加波士顿马拉松比赛的资格(Boston Qualify)，简称“BQ”，但苛刻的报名门槛也令诸多跑步者望门兴叹。
但弗兰克的朋友尤瓦尔·拉蒙(Yuval Ramon)和沃伦·克珀(Warren Kerper)坚持说他们可以帮助弗兰克训练，令他在2012 年缅因州的舒格洛夫马拉松赛赛事中跑得足够快以获取波士顿的参赛资格。训练持续了大约五个月：他们每周有4-5个早上 6:00 在莱镇中心的 Peet's Coffee 前会面，至少跑 5 英里。每周保证一次长距离跑，从10英里左右开始，逐渐加长里程，直到训练的最后一个月，长跑的距离是20英里。弗兰克说：“这听起来很困难，但是当你逐渐增加里程并且有一群支持你的朋友一起跑步时，你可以跑出令人惊讶的里数。马拉松训练不仅仅是一项健身的计划，它成了我社交生活的核心。”
弗兰克在波马赛道上的风采 - 2015年
在沃伦、尤瓦尔和其他莱镇跑友的帮助下，57 岁的弗兰克在2012 年舒格洛夫的马拉松跑道上完成了他人生中的第一场马拉松，并成功获取2013 年波士顿马拉松的参赛资格。马拉松从此成为弗兰克情之所系。他保持与莱镇跑友们每周一起训练 4-5 天，无论是 90 华氏度高温的三伏天，还是零下10 度寒风凛冽的三九日。清晨7:30左右，在镇中心的Peet's 咖啡店能看到弗兰克和他的跑友们相聚一堂，那是属于他们的跑后的快乐时光，也是莱镇社区文化的一个景观。
镇中心的Peet's 跑后咖啡聚会 - 一个坚持10 年的仪式！
在跑友们的陪伴和指导下，几年来弗兰克一共完成了 22 场马拉松比赛，平均每年超过两场马拉松赛事。其中21次都获得波士顿马拉松赛的资格，平均排名位于同年龄组前 13%。今年十月将是他连续第九次参加波马赛事。61 岁时，弗兰克参加柏林马拉松比赛，在这项世界顶级全球马拉松赛事上创下了自己最快的记录，以3 小时16分的成绩超越同龄组近千名参赛者位居第16名。
2013 年是弗兰克最难忘的马拉松赛事。第一次参加波马比赛，梦想得以实现，沉浸在幸福之中的弗兰克完成赛事仅仅40 分钟后，两枚炸弹在终点线爆炸了，那一天成了令人震惊、悲伤和混乱的一天。
而2014 年的波士顿马拉松是迄今为止弗兰克最喜欢的马拉松。爆炸事件一年后的波马在一个阳光明媚的日子里举行，近36,000 名跑者在 26.2 英里长的赛道上竞争，超过 100 万名观众沿途为跑者加油呐喊，这是过去赛事观众的两倍。人们聚集在一起缅怀在爆炸案中的遇难者，并展示出远胜于恐惧的希望与爱的力量。更有意义的是：来自厄立特里亚的移民 Meb Keflezighi赢得了男子比赛的冠军，这也是美国男子自 1983 年以来第一次赢得波士顿马拉松比赛。
2014 年波马赛道上为弗兰克欢呼的亲友团
下一步是什么？现年 66 岁的弗兰克希望在未来的许多年里继续跑马拉松。他的近期目标是完成世界六大马拉松大满贯。目前弗兰克已经完成了波士顿、纽约、芝加哥和柏林，希望在未来1-2年内在东京和伦敦留下身影。他的长期目标是保持足够健康，成为每年参加波士顿马拉松比赛的 70 至 80 岁以上年龄组的跑者之一。在2019 年的波马赛场上，这个年龄组有将近150位跑者完成赛事，其中12位年过80岁。
在莱镇跑步最好的一面：社区
人们通常认为跑步是一项独孤的活动。但弗兰克从自己的经历体会到，跑步其实也是一种社交，而莱镇的跑者以及社区提供给跑者的资源极其丰富。
环顾莱镇和自行车道，随时可以看到正在奔跑的人们。在过去的十年里，每年大约有40名莱镇居民完成了波士顿马拉松赛事。
莱镇的跑步资源更是得天独厚。莱镇不仅拥有该地区一些最好的跑步路线，包括：民兵自行车道 （Minuteman Bike Path)，战役之路步道（Battle Road Trail），莱镇高中运动场和环镇步道（Across Lexington Trail）。每年莱镇还有至少十几场 的5K比赛激励着不断涌现的跑步爱好者。例如每年 1 月举行的抗击癌症运动社区赛事。
莱镇每年一度的“抗击癌症5K” 是莱镇众多的社区跑步比赛之一

这样一个跑步之城，拥有一些马拉松的佼佼者也就毫不稀奇。比如：
  • Warren Kerper：弗兰克的朋友和跑步导师，他在全球参加了 74 场马拉松比赛，其中包括 17 场波士顿马拉松。
  • Mike Menovich：莱镇的“铁人”跑步者 - 自 1994 年以来连续 27 次参加波士顿马拉松比赛。
  • Frank Yukang Wang 是莱镇的长期居民，从 2008 年开始，他参加了10 个波士顿马拉松赛。
弗兰克的跑步伙伴 - 乔、立新、沃伦、巴特和乔希
弗兰克的跑步之旅也让他在莱镇日益壮大的华裔跑步社区中结识了许多新朋友。三年前，弗兰克和他的伙伴们在自行车道上遇到了波士顿BEN华人跑步俱乐部的莱镇分部（Hey Runners)的跑友们。他们每逢周六都能在莱镇中心看到对方跑步，弗兰克向他们挥手微笑，而 BEN 跑友们也会挥手致意。直到有一天，高立新勇敢地过来和弗兰克一行人打招呼聊天，弗兰克和他的伙伴们就这样和立新、Jessie等Hey Runners 的跑友们成为了跑步训练的伙伴。弗兰克说：“这是一种美妙的关系，我们都是莱镇痴迷于跑步的狂热分子”。
立新很快成为了弗兰克的密友之一，成为弗兰克跑步圈与BEN俱乐部的交集。今年4 月波士顿马拉松协会的首席运营官杰克弗莱明(Jack Fleming)到莱镇表达对于#StopAsianHate的支持的时候，弗兰克、沃伦和乔卡鲁索也与BEN跑友们一起支持了这项活动。这样的活动非常强大，它提醒人们当社区联合起来成为一体时会迸发出何等强大的力量。
团结一致支持#StopAsianHate
弗兰克说，莱镇跑步社区的成员有的实际上并不是跑者。他们是在自行车道或其他地方散步的“常客”，是弗兰克和他的朋友跑步之旅的观众。他提到的一个例子是罗达·贝洛斯托克 (Rhoda Belostock)，罗达是莱镇的长期居民，多年来，几乎每个清晨跑步小组都能看到她在路上散步、风雨无阻。罗达总是向弗兰克他们挥手，称他们为“跑步的孩子们”。2018 年罗达去世，对弗兰克和跑友们来说是一个悲伤的时刻。为了缅怀罗达，沃伦筹集了一笔钱买下一张纪念长椅，放在民兵自行车道上能够俯瞰阿灵顿大草原的地方，这也是罗达经常散步的地方。每当他们路过那里，都会想起他们的老朋友罗达。罗达在提醒人们，不是跑者也是莱镇“跑步社区” 的一部分。
罗达的纪念长椅 - 她依然在我们的记忆中和跑步社区
奇迹与参与
“Miles for Miracles”波马队
享受波马比赛快感的同时，弗兰克对通过跑马比赛为世界知名的波士顿儿童医院筹集资金感到骄傲。他回忆说：“当沃伦和尤瓦尔为我的第一次波士顿马拉松赛做准备时，他们就告诉了我关于支助波士顿儿童医院的“里程创奇迹（MFM)” 慈善团队。我当即便加入了。今年MFM团队的180 名跑步者包括四名莱镇成员，目标筹集280 万美元。
如果想为波士顿儿童医院的奇迹创里程活动捐款，可以点击链接：
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Miles for Miracles 波士顿马拉松队 - 黄圈的是弗兰克和他的伙伴们
虽然弗兰克在马拉松比赛中表现出色，但他对跑步的热情并不集中在比赛或速度上。对他而言，将时间和精力投入跑步最大回报是健康以及与友同乐。
弗兰克分享了历史学家威尔（Will）与阿里阿里尔·杜兰特 (Ariel Durant) 的一句箴言，这也是一项行动号召，在他的职业生涯和跑步生涯中都激励了他主动改变。
未来不是躺出来的，它是创造出来的
—威尔和阿里尔杜兰特
Frank Gen's Story- English 
Foreword
As a chief technology forecaster and futurist for IDC,  the world’s premier technology forecasting company, Frank Gens has had an illustrious 40-year career. Yet he never predicted that he would have such a wonderful transformation at the age of 57: from fifty years of having a relationship with running that ranged from total disinterest to strong dislike to - over the past decade - becoming a very dedicated marathoner.  In just nine years, he completed a total of 22 marathons, qualifying for the Boston Marathon 21 times, fulfilling a dream that countless marathon runners have never achieved in their lifetime. Frank has now completed  Boston, New York, Chicago and Berlin  marathons which are 4 of the 6 largest and most renowned marathons in The Abbott World Marathon Majors. He ran his fastest marathon at age 61 in a time of 3:16, finishing 16th out of almost 1,000 runners in his age group at the Berlin Marathon. The year will be Frank's ninth run in the prestigious Boston Marathon.
“Just Do It” -  as they say in the Nike ads. Frank‘s longer-term goal is to stay fit enough to be among the group of 70 to 80+ year-old runners that compete each year in the Boston Marathon.
Frank Gens
Our lives can often lead us to surprising futures -sometimes in the opposite direction of what we had once imagined. Transforming from a biologist to a  technology futurist, and from "anti -runner" to a devoted marathon runner, Frank has created impossibilities in his life that he never predicted. With nearly 10 years marathon running experience, he realizes a truth in life: It is never too late to start something again at any age, to create, to experience, to transcend, to live life  to the fullest.
The future never just happened, it was created.
– Will & Ariel Durant
Frank Gens's Story
Frank grew up in the nearby Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, the place his maternal grandparents came to from Ireland as teenagers in 1897. He attended Boston Latin School, America’s oldest public secondary school, where he was taught how to think analytically and how to communicate - foundations of his later career as a technology futurist. Latin School also introduced him to computers and programming in eighth grade (which was unusual in 1967). He admits he was not very excited by programming at the time, although years later his early exposure to computers would prove to be very helpful as his career pivoted from biology to tech.
Frank jokes that at Latin School he also learned to really dislike running – a few times a year, the gym teachers would have students run just one mile; Frank says he always wound up near the back, with a cramp in his side, out of breath, and vowing to never run again if he didn’t have to!
In college, at Johns Hopkins University, Frank found himself drawn to ecology, the study of interconnected biological systems and communities. (In a funny coincidence, his first ecology textbook was written by Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson – a man who 20 years later would be Frank’s backdoor neighbor in Lexington!) He continued his intended career path in biology into graduate school, where he studied marine biology/ecology at the University of the Pacific’s marine lab on the shores of Tomales Bay in Marin County, California. 
Career Transformation
From Biologist to Tech Futurist
In 1980, Frank moved back to Boston from the San Francisco Bay area, where he’d completed his master’s degree in marine biology. He was ready to start a marine biology job with the Massachusetts state government when, by fortunate chance, he heard about a job opening in a company that did market forecasting for the computer industry. Personal computers had just recently emerged, and the tech world was starting to look like a very fun and exciting place to start a career. Thanks to his early experience with computers in school, he was able to convince the company they should hire him. He left biology behind and started what would be a 40-year career as a leading technology market forecaster.
Frank's early days as a technology analyst and forecaster (ca. 1982, 1986)
Frank says he was lucky enough to have a job where he “was paid every day to learn about the fastest-moving and highest-impact industry in the world – information technology”. In his career, Frank was at the forefront of analyzing and predicting the impact of microprocessors, PCs, the Internet, cloud computing and – most recently – artificial intelligence on business and society. In his job as Chief Analyst at IDC, a leading global tech forecasting firm, he regularly advised the top executives of IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, AT&T, SAP, and many other tech giants about what would come next in the fast-moving market.
Frank with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates
For the past 20 years, as IDC’s chief analyst, he authored the company’s widely read annual predictions about the future of information technology. Frank gave hundreds of speeches about the future of technology before hundreds of thousands of executives in nearly 40 countries (including China), across six continents. You can find many of those speeches on YouTube – including, he jokes, ones in which he made many amazingly accurate predictions, and some predictions he’d rather forget!
Despite Frank’s professional success in predicting the future, he says he never would have predicted that running would become a big part of his life or that he would become a devoted marathoner.
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IDC Directions 2017 Event
Frank Gens Keynote
Sharing predictions on CNBC and Onstage at an industry event
Life Transformation
From “Anti-runner” to Marathoner
Frank started his transformation into a marathoner very slowly and simply. He and his wife Marcia moved to Lexington from Charlestown in 1991, but it was not until the mid-2000s – once his three sons were in middle school and high school – that he would occasionally run in some of Lexington’s many 5K community race events, usually to keep one of his children company. 
Frank running local 5K races with his sons
In 2011, Frank’s relationship with running really began to change.  Frank was encouraged by a work colleague to run the (13.1 mile) 2011 Boston Half Marathon, which he ran well – which prompted some of his Lexington friends who were avid marathoners to suggest he set his sights on running the 2013 Boston Marathon. 
That seemed like an impossible idea to him at the time: to run the Boston Marathon, a person must first run another marathon at a very fast pace (qualifying time). Many people spend years running other marathons trying to qualify for entry to the Boston marathon (something called a “BQ”), and quite a few never make it. 
But Frank’s friends Yuval Ramon and Warren Kerper insisted that they could train him to run fast enough at the 2012 Sugarloaf Marathon (in Maine) to qualify for Boston. The training took around five months – every week, meeting four or five mornings at 6:00am in front of Peet’s Coffee in Lexington center, running for a minimum of five miles. Every week, there would be a “long run”, which started around 10 miles but gradually got longer – by the last month of training, the long runs were 20 miles. Frank notes: “That sounds very difficult, but it’s amazing how far you can run when you’re building up your mileage gradually and when you’re running with a group of supportive friends. Marathon training became more than a fitness routine – it became a central part of my social life.” 
Having a joyous moment in the Boston Marathon... pain and fatigue came a few miles later!
With the help of Warren, Yuval and a strong group of additional Lexington running friends, at age 57 Frank ran his first marathon – the 2012 Sugarloaf Marathon – fast enough to qualify for the 2013 Boston Marathon. Marathoning became his new passion. He continued to train 4-5 days per week with his Lexington running buddies, in 90+ degree heat in the summer and on winter days when the wind chill reached -10 degrees. You can typically see them after their run having a cup of coffee in front of Peet’s around 7:30 or later. 
Post morning run coffee at Peet's in Lexington center - a 10-year ritual!
With the companionship and guidance of his running group, Frank recently completed his 22nd marathon: an average of over two marathons each year. This October he will run his ninth consecutive Boston Marathon. Of his 22 marathons, he has “BQ’d” (run fast enough to qualify for the Boston Marathon) 21 times, and has finished in the top 13% in his age group on average. He ran his fastest marathon at age 61 in a time of 3:16, finishing 16th out of almost 1,000 runners in his age group at the Berlin Marathon, one of the world’s top global marathons.
Frank’s most memorable marathon was the first of his Boston Marathons, in 2013. “It started out as a day of great joy, achieving my dream of completing the famous race. It quickly became a day of sadness and turmoil, as two bombs exploded at the finish line about 40 minutes after I finished.
“But the 2014 Boston Marathon was by far my favorite marathon. One year after the bombings, 36,000 of us runners were cheered on - on a beautiful, sunny day - by over one million fans all along the 26.2 mile long race course (twice the usual number of spectators). The people of the greater Boston area came together that day to unite in memory of the bombing victims and to show the power of hope and love over fear. To complete the happiness, an American – a naturalized immigrant from Eritrea, Meb Keflezighi – won the men’s race, the first time an American man had won the Boston Marathon since 1983.”
Frank's cheering section at the 2014 Boston Marathon
What’s next? Frank, now 66, hopes to keep running marathons for many years to come. His near-term goal is to complete the six “World Major” marathons – he has completed Boston, New York, Chicago, and Berlin; he hopes to complete Tokyo and London in the next 1-2 years.  His longer-term goal is to stay fit enough to be among the group of 70 to 80+ year-old runners that compete each year in the Boston Marathon. In 2019, almost 150 finished, 12 of these 80 or older. 
The Best Part of Running
 in Lexington: Community
People often think of running as a solitary activity. But as Frank’s experience shows, it can be – and often is – very social. And in Lexington, he points out, the community of runners and the resources available to support them are numerous.
Lexington boasts some of the best running routes in the area, including: The Minuteman Bikeway, Battle Road Trail, Lexington High School track, and Across Lexington trail system.
Look around the town and on the bike path any day to see many of the hundreds (if not thousands) of runners. For most of the last decade, about 40 Lexington residents have run and finished the Boston Marathon. Many events motivate those runners who are excited by having an event to prepare for: in a typical (non-COVID) year, at least a dozen 5K races are organized in Lexington (like the annual Resolution Run to Kick Cancer each January.
Lexington's annual Resolution Run 5K to Kick Cancer - one of many Lexington fun runs/races
Lexington is really a runner’s town! There are several Lexington runners who exemplify the best in the town’s marathoning community, including:
  • Warren Kerper: Frank’s friend and running mentor, who has run in 74 marathons around the globe, including 17 Boston Marathons.
  • Mike Menovich：Lexington’s true “ironman” runner - has run in 27 consecutive Boston Marathons, since 1994.
  • Frank Yukang Wang, a longtime Lexington resident who has run the Boston Marathon 10 of the last 11 Boston Marathons, starting in 2008.
Within this large community, Frank expressed special gratitude for the Lexington running mentors and friends who started him on his transformational journey to marathon racing way back in 2012 and who continue to provide running tips and friendship every week.
Frank's running buddies - Joe, Lixin, Warren, Bart & Josh
Frank’s running journey has led him to befriend many in Lexington’s growing Chinese runner community.  Three years ago, Frank and his buddies met Lexington running group (Hey Runners) of the BEN Running Club, a club for Chinese runners in the greater Boston area. They would all see each other running on the weekends from Lexington Center. Frank and his friends would wave and smile, and the BEN runners would wave back. One day, Lixin Gao was the brave person who decided to come over and talk, and Frank’s group met him, Jessie and many of the other BEN runners. As Frank describes it: “It was a wonderful connection – we were all Lexington crazy running fanatics.”
Lixin quickly became a very close friend and is now part of both Frank’s group as well as the BEN group. In April, Frank's group participated with the BEN running team, and the Boston Athletic Association’s COO Jack Fleming, in a special moment in Lexington Center to support the #StopAsianHate message. It was very powerful, and a wonderful reminder of the power of communities when they join forces to become one.
A powerful union of two running communities to #StopAsianHate
Frank points out that, lastly, there are other “members” of the Lexington running community who aren’t actually runners. They are the many “regulars” walking the bike path or elsewhere that he and his friends would see – and continue to see – on their running adventures. One example he mentioned was Rhoda Belostock, a longtime Lexington resident who the running group would see out for a walk almost every morning, rain, and shine, for many years. “Rhoda would always wave at us and call us her ‘running boys’”, Frank said.  When Rhoda died in 2018, it was a sad time for Frank and the group. “In Rhoda’s memory, Warren collected money to pay for a memorial bench overlooking Arlington’s Great Meadow on the Minuteman Bikeway, where we would often see Rhoda walking. Now, whenever we run by, we think of our old friend, Rhoda.” Rhoda’s a great reminder that people don’t have to be runners to be part of Lexington’s “runner community”.
Rhoda's bench - she's still in our memories and in our running community
Giving Back
Children’s Hospital “Miles for Miracles”Boston Marathon Team
In addition to the thrill of running the Boston Marathon these past eight years, Frank has had the satisfaction of using those races to raise money for the world acclaimed Boston Children’s Hospital.  He recalled: “When Warren and Yuval prepared me for my first Boston Marathon, they also told me about a charity team they supported when they ran Boston: Boston Children’s Hospital’s ‘Miles for Miracles (MFM)’. I joined right away and several of us in the Lexington runner community have been part of Children’s fundraising around the Boston Marathon every year since.”
This year 180 runners – including four members of the Lexington running group - aim to raise $2.8 million.
If you’d like to donate to Boston Children’s Hospital’s Miles for Miracles campaign, you can follow this link:
http://fundraise.childrenshospital.org/goto/frank2021
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The Miles for Miracles Boston Marathon team waiting for the start of the Boston Marathon – Frank and his buddies are circled
While Frank has enjoyed relatively high performance in marathoning in his older years, he says his passion for running is not centered around races or speed. The biggest paybacks for putting time and effort into a running routine for him have been feeling healthier and being able to do so with a group of friends. 
To inspire others, Frank shared a mantra that has inspired his transformations, in his career and in his running life, from the historians Will and Ariel Durant, one that is a call to action – not to wait for your future to come, but to create the future you want:
The future never just happened, it was created
– Will & Ariel Durant
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