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8 WOMEN’S RUNNING SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019

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We are all

strong women,

just like...

Way to go,

#TeamWR!

@alexandriawill was

one of many celebrating

#NationalSportsBraSquad-

Day, encouraging others to

“ditch their shirts along with

their insecurities.”

@jdsrupp almost bailed on

her run. She made the right

decision: “It was not fast. It

was not pretty. But it was.”

FEATURE

Jacky Hunt-Broersma

defi ed naysayers who

thought amputee runners

couldn’t compete on trails.

Now she’s running ultras.

“I realized how strong my

body is,” she said.

IN 2018, AMY CRAGG TOOK A MISSTEP while

training in Mammoth Lakes, California, and tweaked

her hamstring. She recovered fairly quickly, but it was

enough to put a crushing end to her goal of lining up

for the 2018 Chicago Marathon.

We all can relate to how diff icult it is when you work

so hard toward something big and then it’s taken

away. Her advice? Trust your squad.

“Surround yourself with people who are going to

have your best interests at heart, who aren’t afraid to

tell you when it’s not the right thing—and trust them,”

she says. “I wouldn’t have been the one to pull the

plug. But they knew that long term, it would hurt me.”

Cragg, 35, is a member of the Bowerman Track

Club, based in Portland, Oregon, under the direction

of coach Jerry Schumacher. And now after 18 months

away from racing 26.2 miles, she’s back, preparing for the 2019 Chicago Marathon on October 13. The

last time she toed a marathon starting line? She placed third in Tokyo, finishing in 2:21:41 and becoming

the fifth-fastest U.S. woman at the distance.

After October, it’s on to the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials on February 29 in Atlanta, where Cragg

hopes to place in the top three to make her third Olympic team.

Oregon Project’s Sifan Has-
san, 26, ran 4:12:23 to set the
mile world record at the
Monaco Diamond League.
The Brave Like Gabe race
was in memory of Gabe
Grunewald.

RECORD NEWS

They’re a community of

physicians who are also

mother runners. So yeah,

busy is an understatement.

It would be easy to fi nd ex-

cuses, but this group keeps

each other moving.

MAMA DOCS RUN

High Lonesome 100

unveiled new policies to

encourage a 50/50 gender

balance in the race, plus

guidelines for parental de-

ferment and transgender

and nonbinary athletes.

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