I got a bit emotional as I realized these people didn’t know me, but were cheering for me anyway.
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My first attempt to train and qualify for Boston came in 2004 with the Chicago Marathon. I was training really well, and then while playing a large group game at camp, I did an unintentional back flip. Afterwards my knee…