As these runners prove, there is no such thing as a “real” runner’s body — nor is there a certain speed or distance requirement for joining the tribe.
Alexandra Heminsley
Anyone who has read Alexandra Heminsley’s laugh out loud memoir Running Like a Girl knows this lady doesn’t hold back when it comes to telling the truth about training — or pretty much anything else. She says, “Before I started running, I wish someone had told me that most advertisements featuring 'runners' actually featured models, and that all kinds of people, of all ages, genders and beyond run. Every day. And we're all invited.”
Heminsley dove into the deep end by picking it up with the aim of running a marathon — and she did it. “I would like to let potential runners know that the most important thing they will develop from running is not what they look like but what they see,” she says. “Think less about the Instagram photograph that others will see of you, and more about the views you ran past fast, enjoying the wind in your face too much to stop and snap.”
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