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Print UA Football: Staff Seeking...UA Four Downs: Arkansas... Photo Courtesy of Jeff Necessary — Jeff Necessary ran the Boston Marathon in 2011. This year, he will be running for the Youth Fitness Fund, a charity designed to encourage youngsters to start running. Photo Courtesy of Mary Jo Brinkman — Mary Jo Brinkman ran in last year’s Boston Marathon, but was unable to finish because of the bombing. She received an automatic qualification for this year’s race. Photo Courtesy Of Jamie Rogers - Jamie Rogers competes in a previous race. Rogers, a UAFS student and Pocola native, will compete in the Boston Marathon on Monday. Photo Courtesy of Debbie Lashley - Debbie Lashley, a native of Keota, competes in a race in 2013. She will compete in Monday’s Boston Marathon. Photo Courtesy of Jeff Necessary — Jeff Necessary ran the Boston Marathon in 2011. This year, he will be running for the Youth Fitness Fund, a charity designed to encourage youngsters to start running. Photo Courtesy of Jeff Necessary — Jeff Necessary ran the Boston Marathon in 2011. This year, he will be running for the Youth Fitness Fund, a charity designed to encourage youngsters to start running. TIMES RECORD • BRINGGOLD@SWTIMES. Four local runners will be taking part in an emotional Boston Marathon on Monday. Three of them — Jeff Necessary, Mary Jo Brinkman and Debbie Lashley — have previously run at the Boston Marathon, while it will be the first for Jamie Rogers. But even for the trio who have experienced the starting line madness in Hopkinton, been encouraged by Wellesley College’s “Scream Tunnel” at the halfway point, cursed Heartbreak Hill in mile 20 and crossed the finish line on Boylston Street 26.2 miles later, the 2014 Boston Marathon will feel different. This is the first Boston Marathon after the events of April 15, 2013, when two bombs went off near the finish line, killing three spectators and injuring more than 200 other spectators and runners. Brinkman ran last year. She was less than a mile from the finish line when she was told to quit running. Because she didn’t get to finish, Brinkman received an automatic qualification for Monday. “It’s going to be really emotional for me to cross that finish line when I didn’t get to last year, and I think just to see all the people there that have managed to survive and restore their health, and some of them I understand are walking and running in the marathon, so I just feel like I’m so fortunate to be able to do what I do and to support those people who have just gone the extra mile to recover from the tragedy, so that’s my goal,” Brinkman said. “I’m going to think of those people that lost their limbs and their lives in Boston. Necessary will be running his second Boston Marathon. He wasn’t there in 2013, but knew several who were. “A lot of my friends thought I was surely in Boston last year,” Necessary said. “I was in the emergency room in Sparks (Regional Medical Center) working that day and my phone was just going nuts. … But I knew Mary Jo was there and some other friends were there and I was trying to track them down. It was probably three or four hours before we knew (Brinkman was) OK. Lashley said not only will Monday’s race be emotional, it will be vastly different in regards to the heightened security which will be in full force for the event. “That’s the thing right there, it’s going to be very emotional,” Lashley said. “Mary Jo knows what it was like before and I’m curious to see what it’s going to be like this time because I know they’ve made a lot of changes, and my daughter’s going and my grandson is going to be there so we’ve got to go over everything that they’re going to have to watch out for and what they can carry. For Rogers — who is currently a student at UAFS — knows her first Boston Marathon is something she won’t forget. “I think it will be extra special. Everybody will remember their first Boston, but especially this year I think this will be something that I’ll never forget, and I just want to run for all the people and all the families who were affected by this,” Rogers said. “I think that’s what’s made it important, it’s not about myself and having a good race and (personal record). It’s kind of like help everybody with the healing process, because people lost their family and they’ll never get them back, so you just need to be grateful for every day and don’t take anything for granted. Necessary ran his first Boston Marathon in 2011. It was the culmination of a goal he had set a few years earlier, when the former high school track athlete resumed running as a way to lose weight. “I looked in the mirror and said, ‘I’ve got to do something,’ so I went on a diet and got back into running,” Necessary said. “This was in July of 2007 and I went out and couldn’t run around the block. But I kept going and kept going and I eventually ran the Little Rock Marathon 34 weeks to the day I couldn’t run around the block. The Little Rock race, however, wasn’t to his satisfaction. “The Little Rock race didn’t go very well and I got mad, so I wanted to do this again and do it right,” Necessary said. “My second marathon was 73 minutes faster and during the process, I ran into somebody online living in Utah, someone who was really fast. He told me at training and race time at your age with these times, if you can do the work, you can qualify for Boston. “Before that, I thought there was no way I’m going to run fast enough to qualify for Boston. But when he dangled that carrot in front of me, that’s when I got obsessed and that started that two and a half year process that wound up that morning in Memphis when I qualified. Necessary said his first Boston Marathon went above and beyond his expectations. “I had all these visions in my mind of what Boston was going to be like when I got there and then I got there and it was better,” he said. “That was really the most fun I’ve ever had in a weekend in my life and I knew I had to get back somehow someway, and I haven’t been lucky enough to re-qualify yet after 2011. … They changed the registration procedures and made the qualifying times six minutes tougher. Necessary will be running on Monday for the American Medical Athletic Association’s Youth Fitness Fund, a charity which is designed to encourage youngsters to start running at an early age to prevent diabetes and heart disease. He had to meet the required goal of raising $4,000 to run. “After (2011), I haven’t been able to re-qualify, but after what happened last April the 15th with the bombings and stuff, I have to be there in 2014 no matter what,” Necessary said. “If I don’t qualify, I’ll do a charity bit. I didn’t qualify so I did the charity bit and that’s hard, too. “It’s one thing if I was raising money for a local charity, but I’m raising money for a national charity while some people are raising money for charities local to the Boston area. The effort it has taken to do that and train is worth it. I felt like I had to be there on (Monday) and with a lot of hard work and a little luck, I made it. Like Necessary, Brinkman qualified for her first Boston Marathon in 2011. She qualified to run it again two years later, but didn’t get to finish due to the bombings. “I was at about (mile) 25.7, and the marathon’s 26.2 and people started looking at me, people were walking towards me and kind of milling around and I thought, my goodness, what’s going on, and they told me to stop, and I didn’t stop,” Brinkman said. “Then finally, a policeman got out in front of me and said, ‘Ma’am, the finish line is blown up and there are deaths,’ and when I heard that, then I stopped dead in my tracks. … At first, it was hard to believe that it was over when they told me. “I did not hear the bomb go off, but just smelled the smoke. Brinkman eventually went to the finish line and then went looking for her gear stored on one of the buses. But she didn’t get to keep her gear. “I walked to the finish line because that’s what everybody did that was with my group and there weren’t very many policemen out there to direct us so we went into the finish line and we looked for our bus,” she said. “So I walked around and looked for the buses that had my gear on it, so I finally found the bus with my gear and got my bag off and had just called my kids and a policeman started yelling, ‘What are you doing in here? This is not safe. Drop those bags, get out of here, run, don’t walk. It also took her several hours to get back to her hotel. Once there, she had to persuade security to let her in and was told to go up to her room and not return to the lobby for the remainder of the day. Brinkman found out about the actual events of the bombing on the TV in her room. Like Necessary, Brinkman has done marathons for charity, mainly raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For the last four years, she raised up to $8,000 and has run marathons for cancer research. “It is a challenge to try to raise that much money locally, but people are very supportive and people are very generous and do help,” Brinkman said. “But it makes the marathon even more special. I think Jeff will feel that when he’s there, that when you have a charity to run for, you have even more of a reason to run the race. Last year’s Boston Marathon bombings had a profound effect on Rogers, a Pocola native. In fact, it motivated her to qualify for this year’s race. “I actually did a marathon at Little Rock in 2013 and I missed it by 17 seconds and I was so upset,” Rogers said. “I knew my friend was going to do another marathon like a month later in (Olathe) Kansas and I was like, well, I’ll just go with you and try again. “I qualified a week after the bombing and I can remember going to the hotel that night before I was going to run my marathon and I had seen the news all week and then that night before I went to bed, I remember they finally caught the (alleged bombers) and it was just such a relief and I remember, I slept so good that night and I woke up that morning, and I just felt really good. I just ran my butt off and I beat my qualifying time by like three minutes and I had time to spare and I remember right at the last mile, they had a sign that said ‘Finish Strong For Boston,’ and that just really motivated me and I ran my last mile so fast and I knew I had it, so that was a good experience for me. Monday will be the 11th full marathon for Rogers, who has been running for about four years. Rogers said her hobby has literally been a life-saver. “Running will kind of be a lifestyle for me forever,” she said. “Running definitely saved my life, I really, truly believe that. I was young and I was in college and I got mixed up with some really bad people and it was just a dead-end road for me and there was nowhere else to go. “When a friend of mine invited me on a run, I’ve been running ever since then and it really saved my life, because without running, I seriously don’t know where I would be right now. It’s just kind of given me a reason to live, I know that sounds crazy but it really has. A Keota native, Lashley said she has lost count of how many marathons she has ran. She does know she has done the prestigious Pikes Peak race in Colorado five times, has done Little Rock at least three times and has done several marathons around the nation. Monday will be her third time to run Boston. She previously ran it in 2004 and again in 2010. When she started running marathons more than a decade ago, Lashley was unaware of the allure of the Boston Marathon. But it didn’t take her long to find out. “My first marathon, I went to Dallas and did like a 4:40,” Lashley said. “Two years later, I decided to do another one and went to San Diego and ran a 3:52. “So he informed me that Boston was the marathon of all marathons. So I said, well, I’ve got to go run another one because I’ve got to beat 3:52, I’ve got to do a 3:50 for my age group. In 2003, I went and ran in New Orleans and did a 3:47, and I qualified for Boston. Lashley remembers her first Boston Marathon for the unseasonably warm temperatures, hovering around 85 degrees. “There were water hoses everywhere,” she said. “I ended up at 4:02 and I was thankful for at mile 15, I got so overheated I didn’t think I would finish it but I did. The four local runners are part of the Western Arkansas Runners club. “We all train together, even though Jamie’s way faster than the rest of us, we all train together,” Necessary said. “I’ve run with Jamie and I’ve tried to keep up, busting my butt and I’m twice her age. One of the advantages of being a runner, Lashley said, is being able to strike up friendships with other runners. Lashley has even inspired Brinkman. “Once, I did very bad at a 5K, but Debbie was there at finish line and told me I did a great job,” Brinkman said. “She inspired me and I just kept running but Debbie’s always been there. She’s been a very fast runner and I admire her for what she can do. She always supports those of us who aren’t as fast either, so it does make a difference who you meet and who encourages you. Necessary said officials estimate 36,000 people will run on Monday, making it the second-largest turnout in the history of the Boston Marathon, which began in 1897. The four plan to meet in Boston before running. They want to do their best on Monday, but they all know something will be far more important at stake. “You’re always anxious before any run in a marathon, but it’s so exciting,” Lashley said. “Those jets are going to fly over and you’re going to feel so much pride, and too, it’s going to be emotional because of last year. But we’re all going to be running and we’re all going to be showing our true American spirit. That’s one thing that’s going to be so cool this year. UA Football: Staff Seeking...UA Four Downs: Arkansas... View the discussion thread. 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