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22 things I learned from running my 1st marathon

November 5, 20152 Comments

22 Things I Learned From Running My First Marathon

If you read my blog regularly, you probably know that I ran my very first marathon last year. Running a marathon wasn’t on my bucket list. I never even considered myself a runner. In fact, up until a few years ago, I didn’t even know I liked running. When I crossed the finish line at […]

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I am a runner: How I went from running like a girl to marathon finisher

April 19, 2015No Comments

My early running days In elementary school I loved to play “boys chase girls”, but I think I was more of a flirt than a runner. In middle school, my dad would often tell me after a field hockey game that I “ran like a girl”. In high school I not only dreaded, but feared […]