Janna Anctil doesn't consider herself a marathoner. A former member of the Boston College field hockey program, she runs to stay in shape, a way to continue fitness now that her days on the turf are in her rearview mirror. There's the occasional 5K, but as the field hockey coach at the Rivers School, running is done for pleasure as opposed for purpose.
All of that will change on the third Monday in April.
Anctil will put feet to pavement in Hopkinton, Mass., and join the thousands who annually run 26.2 miles, through the communities of Ashland and Framingham, winding the roads of Newton and Wellesley, up Heartbreak Hill and by Mile 21 at Boston College, turning onto Boylston Street as part of the rock concert known as the Boston Marathon's finish line.