We recently asked our team members for their running success stories and have already had some submissions. Here is the first in our ongoing series of success stories from one of our early team members, Faith:
"While I am not up to running marathons or even half-marathons yet, I have run two 5k races in the past few months and before that I'd never competed. I'd always just run for fun, but never pushed myself or actually trained for anything. My first race I did ok in and my second race I beat the time of my first one! I was super excited. I also got 3rd place in my age group. Even though it was a somewhat small race, I felt such a sense of accomplishment to have completed it and placed well. It was also 25 degrees out when I did it and I debated not even running in it. I'm so glad I did!"
Congratulations, Faith - we're so glad you did too! We're looking forward to running the Country Music Marathon and Half-Marathon with you.
If you have a story you want to share, we'd love to hear it! Email it to us here.
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