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Last night, Hallmark presented Sweet Nothing in My Ear. The plot prominently features the cochlear implant debate, so you can imagine that a lot of people have something to say about it. But I don’t have much to add to all the reviews: I’m easily pleased. Considering my recent post about running without hearing aids, I was thrilled just to see Marlee Matlin’s character go for a run. Two thumbs up! Yay!

(By the way, thanks to the people who commented on that post- I’ve now been running for almost a month. I’m still a little wicked out of shape, but I’m enjoying it. I’m more relaxed now that I’m not fussing over sweat seeping into my hearing aids- imagine that. To help with motivation, I saw that Noi uses Nike+ for her workouts, so I looked around and found something similar (?) that works for me: the online training log offered over at Runner’s World.)

Today was Patriots’ Day, aka Marathon Monday (to those who live in Boston). I had the holiday off from work, so I was going to volunteer for the Boston Marathon, but I slept through my alarm like Rip Van Winkle. 4:30 AM wake up calls are hard!

When I finally woke up at 6 AM, I decided that the only appropriate thing to do was to get out of bed and go for a run. Then, after grabbing breakfast from Au Bon Pain, I sat down to watch the race on tv. When you watch the race in person, you really only get a snap shot of what’s going on. It’s pretty incredible to see the race evolve from elite to everyman, but you only see it from part of the race course. Watching the marathon on tv can be pretty boring- I was totally distracted by random internet things like this or this or this- that is, until the women’s race became an all out sprint between two runners for the last 6 miles of the race. It was so intense, I was sure one of them would spontaneously combust. From the NYTimes:

Biktimirova picked up the pace. Tune responded. Tune took off. Biktimirova responded. With 150 meters left, Tune spurted again, and this time Biktimirova did not respond. Tune won by two seconds — 2:25:25 to 2:25:27 — a distance of maybe 10 meters. The previous closest finish was two years ago, when Rita Jeptoo finished 10 seconds ahead of Jelena Prokopcuka.