Matthew Ishkanian:  

I know alot of people were surprised, I did the NYC Marathon 18 times. I did the 2007 Marathon, the week before our 30th reunion, which I attended with my wife. I've done marathons in San Diego, N.J and the 100th Boston Marathon. Normally one who would have to qualify for the race, by running a specific time for your age group, but that Boston race in 1996, they had a lottery, and fortunately I was picked. Boston normally has 10000 runners for the marathon, they accepted almost 40000 runners! I've had many jobs over my 25 plus years of working in retail and restaurants, one of my first jobs I had was actually cooking funnel cakes at a NYC street fair in 1980 . There were several teachers, I would've like to see again, among them Mr. Adams, my Probability and Statistics teacher-he appreciated the effort I made to understand the work, even though I was struggling. He gave me a "C" for a final grade. Mr. Lanzalotto (now sadly deceased), was my outdoor track coach. He was a man who had great knowledge of the sport of Track, and always encouraged me, even when I was...Expand for more