For running influencer Alexandria Williams, becoming an Abbott Six-Star finisher was the culmination of a two-decade-plus running journey.
In a new documentary featured on Outside Watch, she shares the ups and downs of achieving this accomplishment and how representation has been central to it all.
In 2016, Abbott introduced the Six-Star Medal as an award for runners who completed all six of the World Marathon Majors, which include the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New York City, and Tokyo Marathons.
Williams, 39, first started running in 2001, but didn’t get bitten by the marathon bug until running the 2014 Dallas Marathon in her hometown. Now based in Baltimore, Maryland, Williams didn’t set her sights on the World Marathon Majors challenge until running her first of the races with the 2017 New York City Marathon. She followed New York up with Chicago in 2019, and then put her plans on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt on nearly all large races for much of 2020 and 2021.
In 2022, Williams finally picked back up and checked the Berlin…
