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KEEPING IT REAL

It pains me when I hear women say they don’t think of themselves as ‘real runners’. To me, anyone who has found the motivation to get up one day, pull on some trainers and jog a few hundred yards is a real runner. You don’t have to run an ultramarathon or a sub-45-minute 10K to earn the title.

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