DENVILLE - Her name appeared in the second of seven columns, a little more than four inches from the top of the page in the Star-Ledger sports section of Monday, Nov. 2.
    One line of the smallest type imaginable:
        5196. Jessica Garrabrant, Denville, 3:29.56.
    There were approximately 2,000 other New Jersey runners on that page, all of them finishing the 26.2-mile race that had more than 40,000 entrants.
    While pleased with her time that was eight minutes faster than last year, when she ran in her first marathon, Garrabrant says she can do better and wants to improve upon her time and get well below the 5,000 mark for next year.
    But Garrabrant doesn't run the recognition factor - recognition was far from her thoughts after finishing the race and still is. She just wants to do better next year.
    She ran the marathon because running is what she does and what she has done for years as a means to stay in shape. Now she will run it as another challenge.
    "I'll try a half-marathon next," Garrabrant says. "I went out fine and was feeling very good until I hit the 18-mile mark ... that was 'the wall' for me and I hit it hard.
    "That's why I want to tray a half-marathon ... I think I can do well in a race of that distance."
    She ran when she played four years of soccer and basketball and ran some track at Morris Knolls High School before graduating in 2004. She ran when she played four years of basketball at Montclair State University, from where she was graduated in 2008.
   Today, she coaches the Kinnelon Middle School girls soccer team and assists varsity coach Steve Racine at the high school while continuing her education by pursuing a teaching certificate in science. 

   Garrabrant's middle school soccer team has won the junior high county title for the past two years.
    And she still runs.
    Garrabrant runs 7-12 miles a day three to five days a week and fills in the remaining days with longer runs of 18-20 miles - more days at the longer distances the closer she got to the marathon. She also plans on increasing her distance work to get used to running the 26.2-mile distance better than she had the past two seasons.
    Still, she was happy with her improvement.
    "It was fun ... I loved it," Garrabrant says. "I'm looking forward to running it again.
    The Monday after the race, she rested. A little sore and a little tired but also satisfied with her run of the previous day.
    On Tuesday, she ran ... it's what she does.