Sudbury Marathon Runner Races for the Dogs

Cathy Lifschultz has two rescue dogs. Both, originally from Tennessee, came by way of Save a Dog in Sudbury. She also volunteers for this rescue group, a tireless resource in the community that finds homes for abandoned and neglected animals.

So it would only stand to reason that the runner, who has completed some 40 marathons in her lifetime, would run the Boston Marathon in the name of animals. Lifshultz joins 20 runners from the town to race in the Boston Marathon, her 30th.

“I know that the people who work and volunteer [at Save a Dog] have hearts of gold and do everything they can to give every dog a fair chance at a better life,” she said. “They make sure the dogs go to loving and safe homes. It’s just a place where you know as soon as you enter, that there is nothing done there that doesn’t come from the heart.”

Lifshultz ran her first Boston Marathon in 1982, skipping some to “have children, move, and try a different spring marathon in the years since then. Boston is far an away my all-time favorite!” She also went to college in Boston.

Still working at getting her training runs in, sometimes that means movies On Demand while on a treadmill.

“It was all going really well for a while until the blizzard and the super-cold temps,” she said.

To donate, go to the rescue’s site, where there is a link to Lifshultz’s Marathon drive.

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