To keep the pounds off after losing weight in 2010, Lisa Land started running. And racing. And running and racing some more.
This fall, the Andover resident reached her goal of running a race in all 50 states. “I ran my first race in the nation’s largest state and finished it in Rhode Island, the smallest,” she said.
Land started running while living and working in Anchorage. It became a lifestyle for her and good friend Laura Burvinski. They ran both before and after work, which sounds like a challenge considering the winter sun sets at 3:30 p.m. and doesn’t rise until 10:30 a.m. in Alaska’s biggest city. But it’s a different kind of darkness, Land said…