Hi friends! I interviewed an incredible person on the podcast for today's episode (@carlyschrom if you want to check her out!) and wanted to share some inspiration with you on this fine Monday. Carly was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, had liver surgery at 22, went through months of not being able to run, and then slowly clawed her way back one mile at a time. She ended up running her first marathon at 4:30am on the one year anniversary of her surgery. No bib, no crowd, just her and her boyfriend looping a pond in Wisconsin in the dark in December. Her story was SO full of gratitude for just being able to run, and I think all too often we tend to take being healthy and ABLE to run for granted. So this week I just want us to be grateful for our runs. The slow ones, the tired ones, the ones where you really didn't want to go but you went anyway. We are really lucky to get to do this. Go get after it this week 💪

Welcome to the Buddy Community friends!! We're SO happy you're here! Tell us a little about yourselves and your running journey's in the comments :) @Kellyn Chapman @Alison Jones @Cami Zubieta @Yusra Iftikhar @Whitney Alexander @Elizabeth Pulgarin @Aimee Jones @Maritza Soto @Holly R @Taylor Ramos @Valentina Irazabal @Alexa Bronfman @Jason Heath @Jess Schoenfeld @Cassandra Robinson

Don’t hate me! I missed win Wednesday this week so why don’t we hit a Training Tip Thursday! Comment your favorite running tip for training below 👇

Some of you have been on here for a min but I’m behind on my welcome posts :) Welcome @Jill Shalley @Sam Rodriguez @Luane Militello @Caitlin Palmieri Jackson @Audra Hahle @Monique Sayles @Samantha McClintock @Meredith Lewis @Annika Olson !! We’re so happy you’re here!!

Happy hump day yall! Share your wins from this week below, big or small! I’ll start - did a very uncomfy speed workout on Monday and hit more of the paces than I expected :) Your turn! 👇