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I was sort of averagely good at sports, never bad but never really a standout, either."
In my family, we’ve got big waistsa belly but not much of a bum or boobs."
“I was completely taken in by him,” she recalls.
“He’d say things like ‘you’re gonna wanna look after yourself more.’
So I started running, and suddenly I was addicted to fitness.
I just knew that every day I needed to go out and run.
“My training is part of my life,” she says.
“I get the biggest high when I do yoga,” she says.
“It keeps me present more than anything else.”
But like most working women, she still has to cram fitness into her busy days.
Free running, another of her active hobbies, tests those limits.
The sport has changed the way she sees everything.
“I’ll go outside and jump between benches, pull myself up on things, crawl through things.
I’ll do anything that scares me.
Once, I even walked across a log over a big ravine.
And the fitter you become, the more you could deal with s— like that.
It forces you to trust your body.
It makes you realize that your body helps you more than you know.”
“That’s just a cool bonus.”
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