Last Updated: 19.Apr.2018

It was a historic day at the Boston Marathon this Monday, April 16, with American Desi Linden winning the women's title, the first US woman to do so in 33 years. Among the rain-soaked finishers was another female runner, this one with Craftsbury ties: newly announced running coordinator Heidi Caldwell finished an impressive 29th in the women's field, with a time of 2:54:31. She was also the first Vermont woman across the line.

Caldwell trained for and raced Boston while working on her master's degree in counseling at UVM this spring. As a former Division I cross country and track runner at Brown University, she has a background in shorter races and is a multiple school record holder at Brown. Caldwell will start a new position this May as Running Coordinator at the COC, which will include organizing running camps and providing running programming to the greater Craftsbury community. Congrats to Heidi on an awesome run at Boston, and we can't wait to welcome her to Craftsbury soon!