Marathon Sunday is a Brady Family tradition. We each run one leg of the corporate relay, meet up at the race finish line after our portion, and then we feast at my brother’s house afterward. That’s just the way things are done. Only…my brother quit running on roads a few years ago when his feet got bad.

That worked out okay in the end since Nicole takes his spot now, but Orla has gone rogue. She insisted on running the full marathon instead of her usual ...