By Nick Cherico | Assistant Editor
Corey Boucher, age 23, is from Leominster, MA. He is currently balancing his work life as an upholsterer and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Boucher currently works for Marcoux Upholstery in Leominster. While working there, he has been a part of some big reupholstering projects, a major one being the upholstery of the seats at Fenway Park. After his company won the bid they put in for the job, they began to start working in January of 2015.
The company was contracted for 6,000 seats. 5,500 red vinyl seats and 500 blue vinyl seats were scheduled to be reupholstered over the course of 3 years. The main goal of the upholstery was to make the seats you can see on television look nicer/stick out more.
Being a Red Sox fan, Boucher stated that the experience was “pretty cool” at first, but since he’s been there so many times it just started to feel normal. One of the cooler experiences he thought back on while being at Fenway was seeing the Red Sox field manager conduct an interview in person.
Along with maintaining a busy work schedule, Boucher has also recently started training for a marathon. His training plan includes him running about 30 miles a week over the course of 16 weeks. By May, he will have completed a full marathon.
The marathon he is training for is called Disney World Marathon Weekend, located at Disney World. The marathon entails four different running events over the course of four days, starting and ending at the Epcot Center. He will be running it alone.
Boucher ran track in high school, so he has always been a runner. However, he didn’t start up again until about a year ago. Boucher felt that he needed to try and live a healthier lifestyle.
When asked if he had any tips for runners who are looking to get into marathons, he stated that getting on a training plan is a must. Along with a good training regimen, a healthy meal plan and having the right running shoes is very important.
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