Name: Audrey Perlow
Age: 26
Residence: Cambridge, MA
Education:
HS: Bridgewater-Raritan
College: Georgetown University
Graduate: Harvard School of Public Health
Northeastern Law
Occupation: law student
Marital status: single
Children status: none

How long have you been running? 6 years
What made you decide to begin running? All of the good/bad things about college led to the Freshman/Sophomore 10 pounds.
Did you run competitively in high school? When my soccer coach sent us to run we would go around the corner and hideout at the local playground for 20 minutes.
Did you run competitively in college? No
When / why did you join SRR? November 2004. I had just moved to Boston and you guys have the best website. I liked being a DCRR (with Becky Wexler - see profile).
Total number races: A bunch each year
Favorite race (and why): DCRRC Tidal Basin 3K held the 3rd Wednesday of every month at noon. It's a free race held in all conditions (flooding, heat, cold, etc.) that involves runners on their lunch breaks sprinting like maniacs while dodging tourists and unnaturally low tree branches.
Favorite running shoe: Anything that fits my feet
Average miles per week: 15
Most MPW Ever: 35
Best running memory: On an "easy" run sprinting as fast as I could along a river in Italy so an Italian jogger wouldn't pass me. He was also going full steam to hold me off from passing him. We hit the end of the river, side-by-side, and he turned to me and said, "gratzi," the only Italian word I knew. I nodded at him in agreement and we silently went our separate ways.
Worst running memory: Running alone in snowy, icy, 15 degree conditions in the Allegheny Mountains. I questioned the wisdom of being out there in isolation many (many) times during those 12 miles. The next year my Dad ran with me and when he saw where I had been he couldn't believe he had let me out there alone.
Running PR's (when and where):
Khoury's: 32:06 (November 18, 2004)
5K: 21:42 (Bright Beginnings, DC, April 2004)
10K: 46:06 (Tufts, MA, October 2005)
10 mile: 1:19:00 (Cherry Blossom, DC, April 2003)
Half-marathon: 1:46:49 (Motorola, TX, February 2004)
Marathon: 4:25 (Marine Corps, DC/VA, October 2002)
Muddy Buddy: 58:01 (Boston, June 2006)
Favorite time of day: early morning
Favorite sport other than running: tris, soccer, stair climbing
Favorite book: The Firm
Favorite TV show: Lost
Favorite movie: Romeo and Juliet (the version with Leonardo Dicaprio) and Dirty Dancing
Favorite food: chocolate and peanut butter
Favorite ice cream: anything with chocolate in it
Favorite cocktail: Schmirnoff ice; wine
Favorite restaurant: Fajitas and Ritas
Favorite car: jeeps
For the women: Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan? Richard Gere.

Fill in the blank: I like it when it's that one moment when it all comes together. I hate it when it all falls apart.
Here, you can be anything. And I think that scares you. -Jimmy Eat World
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But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?
Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things,
not because they are easy,
but because they are hard,
because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,
because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept,
one we are unwilling to postpone,
and one which we intend to win.
-JFK's Rice Moon Speech