Runners Brave The Elements Training For 2015 Boston Marathon
BOSTON (CBS) - With less than two months to train for the 2015 Boston Marathon, runners are finding it difficult to navigate snow and ice covered streets and sidewalks.
Dedicate runners were out Saturday morning braving the cold for long, and very narrow, training runs.
Jeffrey Zeizel, who will be running his 19th Boston Marathon for Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said this has been the most difficult training experience he's had.
"Here you're dealing with the weather, the snowbanks, the cars," he said. "It just makes it brutal."
Like Zeizel, WBZ-TV's Nicole Jacobs is also running in support of Dana Farber.
"You have to take it easy because you're not sure if the car sees you and you can hardly see the cars," she said.
Despite the treacherous paths, runners are more than willing to run on behalf of the various causes they're representing.
"It's just for them. I think of these people and it gets me a little choked up but we're all doing it for them," said Dawn Minkin, running for the Joe Andruzzi Foundation.
"This is nothing compared to what the patients and families go through so it's a small thing to do to give back and help more families," said Andy Haglin, running on behalf of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
