The Record [email protected] Friday, January 5, 2018 Page 17 Less than 48 hours later after swapping goalies with the Titan, the Birds’ made a second set of trades on Thursday gaining a new player for the Local Sports Phoenix defence. Tom Murphy’s book, Runner in Red to be out in time for 2018 Boston Marathon race that year, which would have made box. The characters stayed with me, her the first woman to run a marathon though, and last year I decided to take on American soil. The ‘what if’ of that in- the script and turn the story into a novel. credible possibility stayed with me and I So yes, Runner in Red could be a movie, decided someday I would explore the which would be fitting, since it would legend in fictional form. It’s my mystery bring the story full circle. novel, Runner in Red. Q: Is there a passage that you enjoyed Q: The book is a love story, has family the most writing about? drama and explores women’s courage. A: Early on during the ‘boy meets girl’ Tell us about those aspects. stage where Colin, the narrator, comes A Runner’s Mind A: Bobby Hodge, one of America’s top upon the heroine, her car has broken runners in the 80s said, “Running is the down and he realizes the gap between Christine Blanchette vehicle but the story is so much more.” the points in her ignition system has col- He’s right. Runner in Red is a period lapsed. He pulls out a parking ticket and om Murphy will be releasing his lat- piece set in the late 90s as a run-up to uses the thickness of the cardboard to est book, Runner in Red, published the 2000 Boston Marathon. 2000 is the reset the gap and VOILA it works, the car Tby Encircle Publications, on April year we left the “old” century, where starts and their relationship has a 1st in time for the Boston Marathon. women were discriminated against, and chance to get in gear. I conjured that Murphy, author of Just Call me Jock, also entered a new millennium. I wanted scene from real life. is founder of Human Resiliency Institute Runner in Red to be a celebration of Q: Your story makes the point that we of Fordham University in New York. He women. It’s hard to imagine but there get when we give. Can you elaborate on shares here in a Q&A format how his lat- was a time before 1972 when women that? were not allowed to compete in the A: Here I need to get serious: the point est creative vision was willed into real- up the book? Boston Marathon. Rules forbade them of the story is “we get when we give,” ity. A: My wife, Barb, a Boston Marathon from running any race more that 200 meaning when we focus on the needs of Q: What inspired you to write the runner, got lung cancer out of the blue yards. The thinking was they could hurt others – when we give without asking – book? in 2007. She fought it with great courage themselves. That’s a mind-set that the the universe pays us back. Life is not a A: Jock Semple, whose Boston for six years before she passed away in characters fight against in the story and straight line, however, so the universe Marathon career spanned fifty years, 2013. We created Barb’s Beer, which is hopefully the new millennium means does not have a timetable for being kind, asked me to write his life story in 1980. produced in Massachusetts by the Trap- old prejudices against women have but we have to allow ourselves to be vul- As I took notes in Jock’s cramped cin- pist Monks at Spencer Brewery, to raise passed. nerable to have a chance for the universe derblock training cubicle in the old funds to help cure lung cancer. The Q: What can readers expect from the to repay us. That’s a hard thing to do, to Boston Garden, his portly business Barb’s Beer logo is a silhouette of Barb book? trust, since the world offers so much ev- clients would tease him for chasing crossing the finish line at the 2000 A: I want readers to have fun, but to idence AGAINST remaining open, and Kathrine Switzer down the road in the Boston Marathon, which (on purpose) is learn history too. Many women run often we’re considered “a sap” if we re- 1967 Boston Marathon, an incident that the race featured in this story. We plan today; almost 15,000 of the 30,000 main vulnerable. But it’s living open to made Jock infamous. Then one guy to work with others on the lung cancer Boston runners – were women. But many the needs of others that keeps hope alive asked Jock if he would have chased the project, including the Bonnie Addario people don’t know the history of and keeps open the possibility that good runner in red in 1951, and Jock shot Lung Cancer Foundation. Our goal, and women’s running, and this story strives things will happen for us in the future. back, “If she woulda (sp) been real, I a goal of the book, is to rally support to to teach that history. This is a weighty proposition, I admit, would have protected the rules.” My ears cure lung cancer, which kills more Q: Do you think your book will turn but that’s why Runner in Red is a story – (perked) and I investigated to learn that women than any other form of cancer. into a movie? I strive to explore these themes in the in fact the runner in red was a real-life www.runwithit.ca A: Truth is I initially wrote the story context of a page-turning mystery and a Boston Marathon legend. The legend Twitter: @christineruns as a screenplay, back in 1998. The agent love story. Like Bobby Hodge said, it’s a sprang from a contention by a group of Instagram– runwithit_christineblanchette who got ET made, Stu Robinson at Para- running story, but it’s more. Canadian runners who insisted they saw YouTube channel - runwithit a woman “wearing red” sneak into the digm, represented me, but he passed Q: I understand some proceeds will go away suddenly, and the story went into a to charity? And where can people pick Phoenix lose to Voltigeurs 4-3 in nail-biter Sherbrooke swaps Fitzpatrick for Pickard from Titan and draft picks for Bellamy from Wildcats By Dylan Konecny Louis Blues – would be eligible to play at the ECHL and ton). Standing tall at 6’3” the Hampton, New AHL levels next year and is not expected to be playing Brunswick native has 3 points (2G, 1A) in 24 games so Phoenix net-minder Brendan Cregan put on a stun- junior as an overage player next season. far in his rookie season. ning performance Wednesday night, earning the Fitzpatrick has struggled at times this season. His Next up for the Phoenix is a tough three-in-three. game’s first star honour. Cregan made stops on 31-of-34 record with the Phoenix this year was 9-13 in 25 games, Sherbrooke (17-15-5-2) will host the Blainville-Bois- shots against the Birds’ Highway 55 rival, the Drum- with a 0.874 save-percentage and 3.48 goals-against-av- briand Armada (25-8-2-0) tonight before travelling to mondville Voltigeurs, at the Palais des Sports in Sher- erage. Pickard has played solid between the pipes for Quebec City, Saturday, and Victoriaville, Sunday, to brooke. the Titan this year. He has a record of 14-11 with one play the Remparts (20-14-2-2) and Tigres (18-14-3-2). The game was played with a frantic pace and saw shutout in 27 games this year, and has a 0.902 save-per- goals for Sherbrooke from Hugo Roy, Nicolas Poulin centage and 2.64 goals-against-average. and Yann-Felix Lapointe. Less than 48 hours later after swapping Drummondville was led by Morgan Adams-Moisan, goalies with the Titan, the Birds’ made a second Brome County who had a three-point night (1G, 2A). Former Bishop’s set of trades on Thursday gaining a new player College Bear Dawson Mercer also recorded an assist in for the Phoenix defence. After sending Vincent News the Vols win. Lampron to Gatineau in exchange for a fourth- On Tuesday, the Phoenix made their first significant round pick in 2019, the Phoenix acquired Jaxon Jesse Bryant trade of the season sending goalie Evan Fitzpatrick to Bellamy from the Moncton Wildcats. Bellamy, Sales Manager the Acadie-Bathurst Titan in exchange for goalie Reilly the 16th overall pick in 2017, was dealt to the Let our readers know about your products & services Pickard. The goalie swap falls in line with the Birds in exchange for a 2018 first-round pick Tel.: 450-242-1188 Fax: 450-243-5155 Phoenix’s long-term outlook, as Fitzpatrick – who has (originally from Blainville-Boisbriand) and a [email protected] already signed his entry level contract with the St. 2019 second-round pick (originally from Monc- email: .