But one of the very best runners in the city has a deliberately low profile, letting her feet do all the talking. Dr. Naoko Ishibe is probably better known around NIH as the compact woman on the seventh floor of Executive Plaza South whose cubicle across from the kitchenette provides an almost constant invitation to snack.
People bring food all the time and it's a free for all.
Epidemiologist Dr. Naoko Ishibe is also an elite runner. Besides the running shoes on her feet and a polo shirt advertising Clif Bar, an energy food, it would be hard to tell that Ishibe, a third-year fellow in NCI's Division of Epidemiology and Genetics, is an elite runner. Sure, she has a distance runner's build, but there are no trophies in the office, no copies of running magazines, or hampers full of towels spent on noon-hour runs. Ishibe might well have spent her September in Sydney, competing in the Olympic Games. I had a pretty good year this year, but that was pretty disappointing.