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This was a TOUGH RACE but so much fun and really rewarding. I was the first female finisher in the 10 miler and boy did I fight for that spot. I met some wonderful runners along the way and we struggled up the hills together and managed to find our way back to the trail after getting lost together. This race made me hungry for longer trail races!

My first trail race since college cross-country… and this was MOUNTAINOUS! It was a really fun surprise coming in first for the women of this race, and the views up top were spectacular. I remembered how much I love getting muddy. Added bonus was that my mom came to this race!

This was the first race my fiance and I ever ran together! A canopied, lush green trail in the Finger Lakes made for probably one of the most beautiful and scenic races I’ve ever done at that point. Despite coming off a recent knee injury and my fiance just having had Covid a month prior, we did pretty well for ourselves and clocked a 1:44.

This race was one of my favorites of all time. It’s an all women’s race and it is 2 loops around Central Park in New York City. It was the most perfect April morning and I ran my personal best of 1:40. Being surrounded by women the whole race was incredibly empowering and emotional. I highly recommend this race if you live in the NYC area.

My first ever half marathon! This was such an emotional race for me, I was running in my college city with some friends from school and had an awesome race. The city of Baltimore comes alive for the annual Baltimore Running Festival. This day inspired me to come back the next year and do my first marathon at this festival.

I waited 3 years and went through 3 training cycles before lining up at the Staten Island bridge. After the pandemic caused this race to be canceled, to a back injury in 2021, to finally making it in 2022, the third time is indeed the charm. Despite 80 degree temps and missing my wave start time because of travel logistics, this race was ELECTRIC. If you are curious about the marathon, I recommend this one because it’s a party the entire way. New York City comes alive for you.

This still is one of the best days of my life. I was training for the NYC Marathon in 2020 and of course, the race got canceled. I decided that I put in all this work and was having a great training block that I wanted to see what I could do. I set a date, picked a bike trail in my hometown and enlisted friends to bike alongside me for 26.2 miles as mobile aid stations. My family and friends showed up on a Saturday morning for my virtual marathon with confetti guns, cowbells and custom t-shirts. I ran my personal best of 3:27 and had my best friends and mom beside me the whole way, with other family members and friends driving up and down the bike trail to cheer for me at different spots. It was the coolest thing I’ve ever done.

Your first marathon is one you just simply never forget. I am forever grateful for this day. Baltimore holds a special place in my heart and after running my first half marathon there just the year prior, I knew I had to come back to do my first marathon there, too. The city comes together for this running festival. The course takes you through so many different neighborhoods and areas of the city, and people are outside of their storefronts or on their house porches and cheering so hard for you. I cried in this race from joy and crossed the line with the biggest smile on my face. Not many people can say that, and I have Baltimore to thank for that experience.