At the end of February I was contacted by Henry Howard, a regular guest writer for the Marathon Training Academy Blog, asking if he could interview me. He had seen a post online about my 2017 accomplishments and wanted to know if I would share my inspiring running journey for a story he planned to write for the MTA website.
After sending me some interview questions, he wrote the following article.
This interview made me realize just how much I have accomplished. As someone who is constantly striving to improve and having achieved numerous goals, I want to remind you that hard work does pay off. If you are training for something now, do not give up. Some goals will take more that one attempt to accomplish. Do not quit when it gets hard, and remember you have what it takes.
Since this article was published I have improved both my Marathon and Half Marathon times by over 3 minutes each. I recently started a new training plan, increasing my mileage and cross training, in preparation for yet another Marathon PR later this year.
This fall I will coach my tenth cross-country team, as well as now training eight personal coaching clients for Marathons or Half Marathons.
I am honored that anyone would be inspired by me, and yet I still consider my self just an ordinary girl, who believes that if I can do this anyone can. I am simply willing to do today what many others won’t, keep training until I reach my goals.
As Trevor says at the end of each podcast episode, “You have what it takes to run a Marathon and change your life.”
I have run a marathon, and it did change my life, but I am not done yet.
Run Cari 