Let's Introduce Ourselves...

Welcome to Laps and Line Photos – a blog where four friends document their workouts, friendships, and life experiences.

A history:

Meet Autumn, Elise, Heather, and Jackie. Autumn, Elise, and Heather have been friends since the first day of school freshman year (which was 7 years ago, but who’s counting?). The three of us met Jackie during her first week of  college one year later. All four of us met through our college club gymnastics team and we've been friends ever since.

Autumn: 

Autumn is an acute care physical therapist who graduated with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from VCU. She lives in Northern Virginia.

Elise:

Elise is an inpatient rehab therapist who works with spine/spinal cord patients. She graduated with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from University of St. Augustine. She lives outside of Baltimore.

Heather:

Heather is a laboratory manager at Virginia Tech. She performs antibiotic resistance gene excretion research on dairy cattle. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Jackie: 

Jackie is a third year med student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Jackie plans to become a child psychiatrist.

Where’d the name come from?:

The name “Laps and Line Photos” combines the main focus of our blog with an inside joke that we’ve held on to for years. “Laps” because this blog will focus mainly on training for races we plan to run together and “Line Photos” because whenever we’re together we always take tons of photos of us standing in a line.

Don’t believe me? Here are a few examples.

And these only took me about 5 minutes on Facebook to find…according to Autumn it’s a chronic issue (she really hates line photos) but to the rest of us it’s a great way to document our friendship over the years. Now that we’ve decided to run races together, we have even more reasons to take some line photos! And – bonus – now Autumn has to let us take them!!

Why’d we decide to start a blog?:

We decided to start this blog for a few reasons:

•          To document our training process
•          To act as a pseudo “running buddy”, since we’re all so far apart
•          To motivate each of us to continue training towards our common goals
•          To help us to keep in touch and maintain our friendships
•          To share our experiences with other friends, family, and runners

What kind of posts will you see here?:

Plan on seeing lots of running/exercise updates as well as some “throwback” posts about events that defined our friendships. You will also get to read posts about the fun times we have when we get together – whether it’s all four of us or just two or three of us. In addition, you’ll get to read our celebratory posts each time we reach a goal, both together and separately. Finally, you’ll read guest posts from other friends of ours, like our friend Ashley, who is a fourth year med student and doesn't have the time right now to devote to blogging or training.

A group photo with future guest blogger, Ashley