Hours Well Spent

WHEN AN official told Sarah Sellers after last month’s Boston Marathon that she had placed second, the 26-year-old amateur assumed she was runner-up in her age group—not the entire race.

- Stanley Kay

WHEN AN official told Sarah Sellers after last month’s Boston Marathon that she had placed second, the 26-year-old amateur assumed she was runner-up in her age group—not the entire race. Training for a marathon requires discipline and time precious commodity for someone working four 10-hour shifts a week at a hospital Sellers, a nurse anaesthetist in Tucson would wake up at 4 a.m. to run. Then she’d train after work. Balancing work exercise and sleep is a challenge—bu Sellers knows what it takes. -&nb