# @emmajanelbates on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DDinr1cPhwA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25477565-emmajanelbates-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-12-14T01:49:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Emma Bates (@emmajanelbates) — https://gondola.cc/emmajanelbates

## Caption

We meet again spikes 👀

After a six-year hiatus, I am putting these bad puppies on again for usatfclubxc tomorrow in Seattle (Tacoma), Washington!

Throwing it back to some memz from 2018 ➡️ when I won my debut marathon - USATF Marathon Championships at runcim262 and raced USATF Club XC Championships 6 days later in Spokane, WA. 😅

I could barely walk after CIM and my first run back was the warmup for Club XC 🤦‍♀️ but it was soooo worth it. Especially having an amazing group of women to share third place with! 

I’ll be riding solo this time around 🥹 but my goal is to have as much fun as I can. Life-especially running careers-are too short to not sign up for things that make you happy. I love Cross Country and I can’t wait to get down and muddy tomorrow.

I definitely wouldn’t recommend it, but is anyone doing the Dirty Double (December Marathon X Club Cross combo)?!

#clubxcchampionsips #usatfclubxc #marathonrunning #crosscountry #crosscountryrunning

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crosscountry, marathonrunning, clubxcchampionsips, usatfclubxc, crosscountryrunning

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