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In March we introduced you to Jess Gillman, a 33-year-old mother of two who works full-time in marketing and is also training for the Boston Marathon.
In our check-in this week, Gillman demonstrates how busy runners manage to get training done, even when life throws them for a loop. And not to sound like a Nike ad, but they just do it. For Gillman that means finding a way to train, even when you get tonsillitis in the final month before a dream race.
Because of the tonsillitis, she had to take nine days off of training just ahead of what should have been her taper. Now she’s doing a bit of reverse engineering, squeezing in one last 18-20 mile long run to make up for two that she missed. “I’m just going off of what mentally I feel like I need to do and that’s to get one more long run in to really feel like, ‘OK, I’m good,’” she says.
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