Qualifying for the Boston Marathon Took More Than Running
How trauma nearly kept me from achieving my running goals
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11 min readMay 9, 2024
I started running because it kept me from crying. I was 11 years old and my oldest sister, who was also my best friend, had been diagnosed with leukemia. I was scared she was going to die, and I had nowhere to go with my fears. One summer day a few months after her…