Christine Laskin and Liz Seitz in 2008 used their frequent runs to train for a marathon, but also as a way to catch up on each other’s lives. The two were neighbors and became even closer as they discussed just about everything.
Seitz, 51, remembers talking a lot about her mom, Joan Karff; about her then-recent diagnosis of ovarian cancer; and about a unique program she started eight years earlier at Lamar High School to help teenage girls called Women on the Way Up.