Why Not Me: The Podcast Ep 4 - How I Became a First-Time Marathoner in Under a Year as a Slow Runner
Why Not Me?Show Notes
Less than a year before I ran my first marathon, I could barely run for 30 seconds.
I wasn’t an athlete. I didn’t have some secret lifelong dream of running 26.2 miles. I was a new mom looking for something that felt like mine again, and somehow that turned into one of the most transformative experiences of my life.
In this episode, I’m finally telling my full couch-to-marathon story and what happened along the way as I went from simply trying to become a runner to becoming someone I didn’t even know I was capable of being.
Because sometimes the version of you who can do the thing doesn’t exist yet. You have to keep showing up long enough to meet her.
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