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Last year around this time I posted<\/a> photos of the Boston Marathon<\/a> as it made tracks past our bookstore. Unfortunately I was stuck in our windowless basement buyers’ office today when the runners went by (too much work to do!!), but thanks to the microchip on her shoe I was at least able to track the path of our bookseller-turned-librarian (and self-professed "peeker<\/a>"), Sarah Nixon<\/a>, whom I blogged about in last year’s Marathon post.<\/p>\n Today Sarah is featured in the "Supercool Library Worker Spotlight" on Library Journal’s LJ Insider<\/a> blog. Hooray!! And here at ShelfTalker she is the recipient of my what is only the second gold star I’ve given out to date. (The first one<\/a> went to author Mary Amato.)<\/p>\n As if all that wasn’t enough, Sarah raised over $10,000 for cancer research today, with her 13th run as part of the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge<\/a>. AND this year she got kids involved with fund-raising for Dana Farber too, by creating a Dana Farber Middle School Challenge<\/a> at Blake Middle School in Medfield, where she’s a library assistant.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20080421\/sarah.jpg\")
As if her everyday accomplishments and establishment of Fit Girls<\/a> weren’t enough to earn her her "Supercool" and "Gold Star" status, today Sarah (age 43) ran the Boston Maraton in 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 25 seconds. Out of the 8,935 women who crossedthe finish line, Sarah came in 99th!! And of the 2,980 women to finishe in the Masters Division (ages 40-49), Sarah came in 17th. AMAZING!!<\/p>\n