“If you’re ever in Quebec City I would be happy to have you. We could go on a few runs together.” I had met Veronique just days earlier at a parking lot in Trieste, Italy — two strangers scanning the same spot for a bus that would take us to Umag, Croatia. I chatted her […]
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I woke up on race morning looking 6 months pregnant. Trying not to panic, I prepared myself a coffee and a carb mix while I was getting ready. Then I felt anger. Why must this happen again? Why has my gut health become so bad recently? And why did none of the usual things that
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“I have never fallen in love with a new place that quickly,” I thought as I sat on my hotel bed, thinking about the small town of Suhl and its surrounding mountains I had just explored. It was Friday, the day before my 2nd mountain trail ultramarathon. After dealing with severe hip and lower leg
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My running journey started on the trails. I discovered my love for running in 2016 while living in South Africa for 6 months. Just 3 months after I had landed on the continent, I gained around 5 kg, which I disliked. And so I did what many people do when they want to lose weight
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I didn’t expect to finish the race on the podium. In fact, just 2 days earlier, I didn’t expect to finish at all. Mysterious pains in my upper abdomen appeared on Thursday and made me question my decision to travel to the race. I had experienced these pains before. They appeared seemingly out of nowhere